The prevention of human trafficking and pornography, especially with children.
The conversion of traffickers and porn consumers.
Support for those who work to prevent, intervene and/or rehabilitate those trafficked, the survivors and traffickers.
Catholic social teaching proclaims the dignity of the human person and the sanctity of all human life.
Each person is made in the image of God, is loved immeasurably by Him, and has inherent worth.
Every person is precious, people are more important than possessions, and the measure of every institution is whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person.
Because every life is a gift from God and is sacred, it deserves to be protected and nurtured; we each have a responsibility to fight against the violation and degradation of our brothers and sisters.
Commitment to end slavery in all its forms is rooted in the Catechism of the Church, which forbids any act leading to the enslavement of humans—a sin against a person's dignity and fundamental human rights. (USCCB)
2414: "The seventh commandment forbids acts or enterprises that for any reason - selfish or ideological, commercial, or totalitarian - lead to the enslavement of human beings, to their being bought, sold and exchanged like merchandise, in disregard for their personal dignity.
It is a sin against the dignity of persons and their fundamental rights to reduce them by violence to their productive value or to a source of profit. St. Paul directed a Christian master to treat his Christian slave "no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, . . . both in the flesh and in the Lord."