How Supply Chains Facilitate Human Trafficking
On Tuesday 15th February 2022, the OLA Sisters, in partnership with SMA Ireland, hosted a webinar on How Supply Chains Facilitate Human Trafficking. We would like to thank the speakers: Keith Adams of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice who spoke about the...
Human Trafficking, Forced Labour and Supply Chains
The World Day of Prayer and Awareness against Trafficking in Persons: 8 February 2022 St Josephine Bakhita was born in Darfur in Sudan in 1869. She was kidnapped and sold into slavery as a child in February 1877, and for 12 years was bought, sold and...
Highlights from Our Justice Desk 2021
2021 was a busy year on our Justice Desk. Here are some of the highlights:
It is Good for Us to be Here: Catholic Religious Institutes as NGOs at the United Nations
Book Review: It is Good for Us to be Here: Catholic Religious Institutes as NGOs at the United Nations, 2015. This book was a really useful find for me even if eventually, it remains as a Kindle edition of 80 pages costing around 2 dollars from Amazon. It is a...
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign. It was first launched in 1991, and is currently the most widely recognized and longest-running campaign for women’s rights in the world and is focused on...
OLA Ireland Supports the Make it Your Business Campaign
The Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights (ICBHR) is campaigning for new corporate accountability legislation to prevent abuses by making Irish-based companies accountable for a range of corporate human rights violations including forced labour, land grabs,...
COMECE releases the first report of its Interfaith Youth Convention
Press Release, 10/11/2021 COMECE releases the first report of its Interfaith Youth Convention The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) releases on Wednesday 10 December 2021 the first report of its Interfaith Youth...
OLA Joint Submission to UPR Shapes Stakeholders Summary
We are delighted to report that our UPR joint submission has definitely shaped the Summary of Stakeholders' Information report prepared by the OHCHR - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Our submission is referenced 18 times across 12 paragraphs in the...
Message from Irish Missionaries to Leaders at COP 26
Vocations Ireland and AMRI have put together the following video with messages from Irish Missionaries to the leaders at COP 26. OLA Justice Officer, John McGeady shares a message on our behalf. What is COP 26? COP stands for Conference of the Parties is...
OLA Sisters Co-Found New Irish Antenna of AEFJN
In July 2021, the OLA Sisters Irish Province, in collaboration with other Religious Congregations, co-founded a new Antenna, or branch, of the Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network - AEFJN. In September, the new Antenna decided to join the Irish Coalition on...