Domestic Violence

The Ministers of Light is an emerging, survivor-driven, grassroots effort rooted in faith-based community organizing and supported by Catholic Charities and Bishop William Justice of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The effort is a direct response to a mandate issued and reaffirmed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1992 and 2002 forcefully condemning domestic violence against women, and calling for the Catholic Church to ignite a moral revolution against domestic violence.

Read about them in the Catholic San Francisco

Human Trafficking
Findings of the 2005 Department of State
Trafficking in Persons Report

Tier 1 (Full compliance with the       minimum standards of the       Trafficking and Violence Protection        Act (TVPA))      Tier 2 (Significant efforts to comply        with TVPA)      Tier 3 (No efforts to comply with TVPA)      No data

What is human trafficking?
Human trafficking is:

• the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor;
• a modern-day form of slavery;
• the fastest growing criminal industry in the world and is tied with the illegal arms industry as the second largest, after the drug-trade.

USCCB - Human Trafficking Webpage
Human Trafficking.org
Not for Sale Campaign