Stop Trafficking!

Stop Trafficking Newsletter

Awareness, Advocacy and Action

Capacitar is collaborating with the Sisters of
the Divine Savior in a program of awareness, advocacy, and action on the issue of human trafficking.

"Trafficking in persons" is a form of "modern-day slavery". Traffickers often prey on individuals who are poor, unemployed, and who may lack access to social safety nets. Victims, predominantly women and children, are often lured with false promises of good jobs and better lives, and then forced to work under brutal and inhumane conditions. Anyone, who suffers under force, fraud or coercion and is made to work for the commercial gain of their controller, is a trafficked person.

About 700,000 persons, primarily women and children, are trafficked annually within or across international borders. Approximately 14,000 women and children are trafficked annually into the United States. Currently human trafficking has become more lucrative than the illegal drug trade.

A monthly electronic newsletter, Stop Trafficking, is available in English and Spanish as a forum for exchange of information about the issue of human trafficking. More information is available at this link.

Capacitar techniques help to empower those who have suffered under the abuse of its perpetrators. Capacitar International collaborates with S. Jean Schafer, SDS and Sheila Novak, SDS on this program.