NEWS
25 February 2016
Talitha Kum Training Manual
For Women Religious Active in the Prevention of Human Trafficking and Assisting its Victims
This document is intended to serve as one of the instruments for women religious who are active, or willing to become active, in counter-trafficking1 efforts associated with preventative activities and victim assistance. Human trafficking is a recent variation of the old phenomenon of human exploitation, associated today with the process of globalization of the world economy. The geopolitical transformations of the last two decades deeply reshaped both the political and economic balance and favoured the increase of internal and international migration flows, either voluntary or forced (these last due to armed conflicts or to natural or man made environmental disasters).
THE NETWORK
IN THE WORLD
Talitha Kum, the International Network of Consecrated Life Against Trafficking in Persons, is present in 89 countries on five continents. According to the information of the 2021 Census, Talitha Kum is made up of:
50 inter-congregational networks that coordinate the efforts against trafficking at the national-local level;
10 networks that promote joint coordination of different countries at the regional level. These include so-called "contact countries" formed by Network reference groups working in the region. In other cases they are in the process of forming the national network;
2 continental coordination that bring together the national and regional coordinations present within a continent; an
the international coordination based in Rome at the International Union of Superiors.
