Washington: Fr Shay Cullen to address Congress on human trafficking

Apr 22nd, 2015

Fr Shay Cullen

Today, Wednesday 22 April, Columban Father Shay Cullen will be testifying before the US Congress to the House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. The purpose of this hearing is to provide input to the US State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report.

You can live-stream the hearing at 1.30pm US Eastern Standard Time (that's 6.30pm London time) here: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-accountability-and-transformation-tier-rankings-fight-against-human

This hearing is one of many public events in which Fr Shay and his colleague Marlyn Capio Ritcher of PREDA will be appearing during their visit to the US, to advocate and educate on the issue of human trafficking.

Nearly 10 years earlier, another Columban, Fr Nguyen Van Hung was named as a Hero Acting to End Modern Day Slavery by the US State Department in 2006 www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2006/67020.htm

Fr Shay Cullen is the founder of the PREDA foundation which works in the Philippines with children rescued from traffickers. Read more here: www.preda.org

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