Participants received an overview of human trafficking (both sex and labor) in the U.S. and overseas. Two panels focused separately on sex trafficking and labor trafficking and will include survivors of trafficking, policy experts and advocates. Participants also heard from Members of Congress and learn what they - as people of faith and the general public - can do in their districts to most effectively lobby on important issues, like human trafficking.
Our 2018 bi-partisan congressional co-sponsors were:
Our speakers included:
Our 2018 bi-partisan congressional co-sponsors were:
- Representative Ann Wagner (R-MO)
- Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
Our speakers included:
- Angela Aufdemberge - President and CEO of Vista Maria, a Good Shepherd residential treatment facility for youth
- Hilary Chester, PhD - Associate Director, Anti-Trafficking Program,
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - Sr. Winifred Doherty, RGS - United Nations Representative for the Congregation
- Marcia Eugenio - Director, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor
- Survivors of Trafficking
2020 NAC GOALS AND STRATEGIC PLAN |
Interfaith Toolkit for a Faithful Budget
Congress is preparing for critical budget decisions this winter; budget decisions that have to pass both the House and the Senate. Members of Congress need to hear from concerned constituents in order to stand strong against cuts to crucial programs. This toolkit, developed by the Interfaith Immigration Coalition, will tell you the why and the how. (To learn more about our 2017 Faithful Budget, visit our Faithful Budget Page.) |
COVID-19
Link to Save the Date for 2020 Interfaith4Asylum Launch ( Vigils Jan 29 2020)
Stop Human Trafficking
|
Interfaith Toolkit on Human Trafficking
The Washington Inter-Religious Staff Community, of which NAC is a member, has put together an Interfaith Toolkit on Human Trafficking to educate individuals and members of parishes and organizations and then to help them mobilize and put an end to human trafficking. The toolkit contains basic information about trafficking, as well as specific information on the connection between consumerism and trafficking, which is the theme of the 2017 toolkit. We encourage communities to focus on the way in which consumerism and lack of accountability in business supply chains result in millions of people being trafficked or enslaved. The toolkit also contains faith-based resources and contains ideas for local faith communities to take action against human trafficking. We hope this toolkit will help local faith communities across the country raise awareness, promote dialogue, and take moral action against the scourge of modern-day slavery. 2019 HTC Flyer and MemeNAC Strategic Plan |
Human Trafficking comprises the fastest growing criminal industry in the world.
Get this toolkit to educate individuals and members of parishes and organizations and then to help them mobilize and put an end to human trafficking. https://www.cfr.org/interactives/modern-slavery/#!/section1/item-1
|
Minimum wage
Links 4 Action Alerts that are not on NAC site |
Vote in 2016 & Engage Elected Officials
Prepare for the elections and read our 2016 Voting Guide:
Learn how to personally advocate for change and garner other advocacy resources. |
Keep these items for possible future use
|
See our inside page for statements, releases, and more supporting our Muslim brothers and sisters here in America and those fleeing persecution, war and economic injustice.
Tell your Member of Congress to support HR 5207 forbidding a ban on refugees or immigrants because of their faith.
|
|
Paid Family & Medical Leave
You’ve been sick. Did you stay home? Was your job at risk? Who took care of your sick little kindergardener with fever? You? Was your job at risk?
Paid family and medical leave enables workers to earn time off to tend to a sick family member, take care of a new baby or newly adopted child or to take time to recuperate themselves. We all need a fair shake. Read more on our Poverty Page. Do you have a story to tell supporting paid family and medical leave? We would love to hear from you. Please visit our Outreach Page to share your story. |
"These past seven months have seen migrants, refugees and immigrants take hit after hit after hit. The state of affairs with regard to our immigration policy is abysmal. Here and abroad, it has unnecessarily put communities at risk and people’s lives in danger, and it has put America’s future in question.
"Somehow we have forgotten that immigrants are people who may have needs but they also have gifts to offer. When we think of immigrants as commodities we lose sight of their humanity and run the risk of losing our own humanity."
~ Larry Couch