Pontifical Council hosts international conference on human trafficking

May 08, 2012: The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace held on Tuesday an international conference in Rome on human trafficking. The one-day conference focused on prevention, pastoral support and rehabilitation of victims of human trafificking.
The conference attracted a wide variety of speakers, including Deputy Head of the Centre on Human Trafficking UK, CARITAS of Lithuania and the nun who established Albania Hope, a charitable organization against trafficking in persons.
Delegates from around the world - Lithuania, Nigeria, Thailand, South Africa, USA, Europe – attended the conference. There were also be a victim of trafficking to tell her story.
The conference is co-organized by the Office for Migration Policy (OMP) of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.