On the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, which takes place this Wednesday, July 30, the Clamor Network in Argentina reiterated its call to society to assume the commitment to fight this scourge.
On this special date, the Latin American and Caribbean Ecclesial Network of Migration, Displacement, Refuge and Trafficking (Clamor) in Argentina issued a statement in which it emphasizes that the “terrible reality” of trafficking, violates human rights, while demanding to fight against it through fraternal action.
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The message is entitled “Pilgrims of Hope: ‘Do this in my memory'”, and maintains the importance of “fighting together” against this crime.
In that sense, he summons the commitment to training on the subject; in work on prevention; The intervention by denouncing suspicious situations.
He also calls for the hand to those who need help; to act together to support the victims; Already pray to eradicate the crime.
“Let’s work by connecting resources, knowledge and efforts to achieve the same objective complementing our strengths to address the challenges more comprehensive,” he urges.
Unjust structures are “culture broth” for exploitation
The statement states that “unjust social, political and economic structures violate the integrity of our people”, generating “culture and misery broths” and thus promoting “the exploitation of all kinds, including human trafficking and constitutes a real scandal for the Christian faith.”
The message emphasizes rights in Argentina “with professionalism and empathy”, and in the need for “timely justice” with humanity and cordiality towards the victim.
“It is necessary to accompany and support those who are seriously outraged, wounded, affected, harmed in social and work reintegration, in access to decent housing, medical treatments, psychological and material assistance,” he says.
The message recalls that the fight against human trafficking “means much more than a pastoral action.”
“It is a real act of humanity and religion founded and supported by hope: it is a profession of faith taken to the last consequences. It is God acting through us and freeing the victims, and working so that others may not fall into these networks of evil. It is acting in Memory of Jesus,” he says.
Finally, he asks for the intercession of the Virgin Mary “so that she, as a model of a pure and brave woman, leads us from her hand in our mission of establishing the kingdom of Jesus Christ in the world.”
The Argentine Clamor Network is made up of the Argentine Catholic Action, the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations, the team not to trafficking, the Guadalupe pastoral of Mendoza, together on the way (Sacred Eucharist parish), Slave sisters adorratrices of the SMO. Sacrament and Charity, Order of Mercy, Hnas. Missionary Social Service, Hnas. Dominicas of the Blessed Name of Jesus, Hnas. Slaves of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
It is also made by the Kawsay Network, Red Infancy Stole Itinerant
Julieta Villar
I am a journalist, a graduate in Communication from the National University of La Matanza in Argentina. I have work experience in non -governmental organizations. Since 2016 I dedicate myself to Catholic journalism, first in the Argentine Catholic Information Agency (AICA) and, since 2022, as a correspondent for ACI Press for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia.