The Good Shepherd Sisters have 59 active missions across 6 continents focused on combating human trafficking through prevention, protection, lobbying, advocacy, and reintegration efforts. They work to raise awareness, strengthen laws, provide services to victims, and facilitate integration. The organization focuses on sex and labor trafficking of women, children, and men in countries like Taiwan, Macau, India, and across Asia, Africa, South America, North America, and Europe.

1. Good Shepherd Sisters: a global mission to
eradicate human trafficking
July, 2014

2. Trafficking: the human toll
• 2.4 million people are trafficked at any given minute in the world and human
trafficking generates $32 billion in annual profits for criminal networks.
– United Nations
• “Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a
scourge upon the body of Christ”: Pope Francis in Feb, 2014.
• The so-called Tier 3 countries topping the list of chief offenders in failing to
adequately police human trafficking, according to the US Department of
State, include: Thailand, Malaysia, DRC, Venezuela, Russia, Syria and
Zimbabwe.
• The Good Shepherd Sisters (“GSS” in this report) have 59 active missions on
six continents focusing on protection, lobbying for stronger protections and
more effective policing, awareness raising and reintegration.

3. GSS Anti-Human Trafficking
ministries around the world
NY:3
Mid-North
America:3
Central
America:1
Colombia –
Venezuela:3Ecuador:2
Peru:3
Bolivia –
Chile:2
Brasil-
Paraguay:2
Argentina-
Uruguay:1
Ireland:1
South
Africa:1
Burkina
Faso:1
Syria – Lebanon:3
SouthWest
India:1
Sri-Lanka-
Pakistan:5
Indonesia:5
Philippines:3
Macau:3
Taiwan:3
North-East
India-Nepal:
at least 3
Singapore:2
Malaysia:2
Italy/Malta:1
Germany/
Albania:2
Total: 59 GSS ministries on anti-human trafficking

4. How Good Shepherd Sisters fight
trafficking
Prevention of Human
Trafficking
Include programs that
aim to make a
vulnerable population
aware of the
phenomenon through
media campaigns,
schools campaigns.
Also, programs that
work to reduce
vulnerability through
direct service
provision and creation
of employment with
the direct aim of
trafficking prevention.
Lobbying and
Advocacy
Includes lobbying,
awareness raising
campaigns,
strengthening
local employment
laws, migration
policy, anti-
trafficking
legislation and
legislation to
combat the
demand side of
prostitution.
Protection of
individuals who
have been
trafficked
Involves programs
that work directly
with people who
have been
trafficked,
providing services
such as shelters,
training,
counselling, legal
advice, translation
services, family
reunification,
medical assistance,
supports to
facilitate
integration into
local schools, etc.
Re-integration in
country of origin for
trafficked individuals
Involves programs
that offer service
provision for those
who were trafficked
on their return to
their country of origin,
such as counselling,
economic assistance,
vocational training,
legal advice, supports
to re-integration into
families, local schools,
etc.
Lobbying and
Advocacy for
tougher
protection of
trafficked
individuals
Programs that
work on
lobbying in
countries of
destination in
relation to state
funding/provisio
n of services,
visa
entitlements.
Lobbying and
Advocacy for the
state to provide
Re-integration
services in
country of origin
Lobbying in
countries of origin
for greater state
funded services to
help trafficked
persons on their
return to theit
country of origin.
This includes
counselling, legal
advice, economic
assistance,
vocational
training.
Lobbying and
Advocacy to Prosecute
Human Traffickers
Programs that work on
a political level to seek
the prosecution and
adequate sentencing
of traffickers and
others who exploit
those who have been
trafficked, etc.

5. Human Trafficking: where we focus our
ministries
Adult sex trafficking
Adult and child sex
trafficking
Adult and child sex
trafficking + Forced
adult labour
Taiwan
Adult sex trafficking
and adult forced
labour
Adult and child sex
trafficking + Forced
adult and child
labour

6. Anti-trafficking work at a glance
Prevention
Protection
Protection +
Reintegration
Prevention +
Protection
Prevention +
Protection +
Reintegration
Taiwan
Focus on
reintegration
Macau
Prevention and
protection

7. Lobbying, Advocacy
for Prevention
L & A for Prevention
+ Protection
L & A for Protection
+ Reintegration
L & A for Prevention +
Protection +
Reintegration
Lobbying and Advocacy
L & A for prosecution
Macau
L & A. Prevention

8. How we help: By gender
Only Women Women and children Women, children and men
Macau
Women, children and
men

9. To learn more
Please visit our website at FondazioneBuonPastore.org
To learn more about the work we do to eradicate human
trafficking and offer aid to those who get caught up in
these rings, please see our mission work here:
http://goo.gl/wQvqOs

10. To learn more
Please visit our website at FondazioneBuonPastore.org
To learn more about the work we do to eradicate human
trafficking and offer aid to those who get caught up in
these rings, please see our mission work here:
http://goo.gl/wQvqOs