Options for Action in Many Spheres:

"Societal tolerance of one woman being trafficked leaves all women at risk of objectification."

S. Clare Nolan, Good Shepard Sister, New York, who represents her congregation at the United Nations, during a talk in Milwaukee, WI in 2001

"... lack of ratification and compliance with international human rights instruments, lack of national plans for action, prevalence of corruption, and the lack of political will support the increase of slavery in our society today....

"These are not sexual issues. These are issues of power, violence, oppression and economics.

"What we see are systems that maintain or increase violence and oppression: unrestrained capitalism, a deeply embedded patriarchal system that allows men to treat women as objects...

"We must challenge the language of economic enterprise. The trafficking and exploitation of women and children is not "one of the worst forms of labor" (United Nations). It is not labor at all. It is a fundamental violation of women's and children's rights."

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