Protect Yourself in a Wired World

2010.07.20

Canada’s leading expert in cyber safety told a Kingston audience that anyone can be a victim of internet crime. MORE...

Information update concerning the Sisters of Providence Healing Violence Committee

2010.05.05

The original committee was called Healing Violence Against Women. Our mandate to provide a major conference every two years over a period of ten years has been copmleted. MORE...

Protect yourself in a Wired World

2010.02.04

The rapid rate of technological changes, a part of the society in which we live, leaves many of us feeling a bit dizzy and unable to keep up with the latest innovations. Change is inevitable, a law of life, as we all know. MORE...

Responding to the Call

2009.04.17

The original committee, which resulted from the fourth directional statement of Chapter/94, was called Healing Violence Against Women. Our mandate to provide a major conference every two years on some aspect of Healing Violence over a period of ten years has been completed. MORE...

Eye witness to war

2008.08.13

Sally Armstrong has been nicknamed Afghan Sally and the Crusading Journalist. The Amnesty International award winner and documentary filmmaker gave the keynote address at this year’s conference sponsored by the Healing Violence Against Women Committee of the Sisters of Providence. MORE...

Sisters Target Human Trafficking

2007.07.09

Sister of Providence Frances O'Brien and Associate Barbara Baker facilitated a workshop to examine the world-wide reality of human trafficking at the spring assembly of the religious women of the Archdiocese of Edmonton at the Providence Renewal Centre. MORE...

Modern Form Of Slavery

2006.01.20

Find out more about the fourth bi-annual conference. The sexual exploitation of women and children through trafficking will be addressed.  MORE...

What is trafficking?

2006.01.13

Trafficking in persons means the recruitment, transportation, harbouring and trade of persons, by means of threats, force, abduction, fraud, deception, and abuse of power for the purpose of exploitation. MORE...