Sister Eugenia Bonetti M.C. | |
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 Eugenia Bonetti (right) and British diplomat Nigel Baker (left) | |
| Archdiocese | Naples |
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| Nationality | Italian |
| Denomination | Christianity |
| Residence | Naples, Campania, Italy |
| Occupation | Leader of the Italian Union of Major Superiors' work against human trafficking |
Eugenia Bonetti is a nun who works to rescue girls from being trafficked in Italy [1] and help women leave the country's prostitution industry. [2]
She is a Consolata Missionary Sister, [3] a Master of Counselling, and a member of the Italian Union of Major Superiors, [4] leading the organization's work against human trafficking. [5] In this capacity, she is in charge of 250 nuns around the world who work to help young girls and women exit prostitution. [6]
She appears in the documentary film Not My Life , in which she speaks about her work in Italy. [1] In 2005, she participated in a conference sponsored by the Holy See in order to explore how the Catholic Church can provide better pastoral care for women forced into prostitution. [7] She won the International Women of Courage Award in 2007 [8] and the European Citizens' Prize in 2013. [9]
In December 2012 she founded the association Slaves No More (Mai più schiave). [10]
Pope Francis chose her to write the texts for the Good Friday Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum in 2019. [11] [12]
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Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. It has been called a form of modern slavery because of the way victims are forced into sexual acts, usually non-consensually, in a form of sexual slavery. Perpetrators of the crime are called sex traffickers or pimps—people who manipulate victims to engage in various forms of commercial sex with paying customers. Sex traffickers use force, fraud, and coercion as they recruit, transport, and provide their victims as prostitutes. Sometimes victims are brought into a situation of dependency on their trafficker(s), financially or emotionally. Every aspect of sex trafficking is considered a crime, from acquisition, to transportation and exploitation of victims. This includes any sexual exploitation of adults or minors, including child sex tourism (CST) and domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST).
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Forced prostitution, also known as involuntary prostitution or compulsory prostitution, is prostitution or sexual slavery that takes place as a result of coercion by a third party. The terms "forced prostitution" or "enforced prostitution" appear in international and humanitarian conventions such as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court but have been insufficiently understood and inconsistently applied. "Forced prostitution" refers to conditions of control over a person who is coerced by another to engage in sexual activity.
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Cambodia is a source, transit, and destination country for human trafficking. The traffickers are reportedly organized crime syndicates, parents, relatives, friends, intimate partners, and neighbors. Despite human trafficking being a crime in Cambodia, the country has a significant child sex tourism problem; some children are sold by their parents, while others are lured by what they think are legitimate job offers like waitressing, but then are forced into prostitution. Children are often held captive, beaten, and starved to force them into prostitution.
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Adoratrices Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in 1856 by Saint María Micaela of the Blessed Sacrament in Madrid, Spain.
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Sex trafficking in the United States is a form of human trafficking which involves reproductive slavery or commercial sexual exploitation as it occurs in the United States. Sex trafficking includes the transportation of persons by means of coercion, deception and/or force into exploitative and slavery-like conditions, and is commonly associated with organized crime.
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Sex trafficking in Vietnam is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and slavery that occurs in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Although India, China and Pakistan are amongst the worst perpetrators of trafficking, Vietnam is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination country for sexually trafficked persons.
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