Taking Action to End Human Trafficking
Catholic Social Teaching
“One of the most troubling of those open wounds (in the world) is the trade in human beings, a modern form of slavery. It violates the God-given dignity of so many of our brothers and sisters and constitutes a true crime against humanity.”
— Pope Francis, November 7, 2016
“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.”
— Catechism, pp 2414
Whatever insults human dignity, such as… slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed… they are supreme dishonor to the Creator.”
— Gaudium et Spes, 1965
Human trafficking is a horrific crime against the basic dignity and rights of the human person. All efforts must be expended to end it. In the end, we must work together—Church, state, and community—to eliminate the root causes and markets that permit traffickers to flourish; to make whole the survivors of this crime; and to ensure that, one day soon, trafficking in human persons vanishes from the face of the earth.”
— USCCB, On Human Trafficking, 2007
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