Here William Finnegan talks about the transnational networks of human trafficking and the efforts to help their victims.

American Award-winning journalist David Batstone, and author of "Not for Sale: the return of the Global Slave Trade".

Batstone who is also professor of Ethics at the University of San Francisco and the founder and president of Right Reality, an international social venture firm, was keen to encourage Australians to take up the cudgels in this most recent round of a very ancient trade, the ‘Traffic in Souls.’ It’s not just prostitution…

A combined group of 180 Catholic religious orders are lobbying the Australian government to change the way victims of people-trafficking are treated by the law in Australia. The campaign's being led by the umbrella group, Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans, which works to eliminate human trafficking in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The group's taking its case directly to parliament, urging not just changes to the law, but also greater effort from elected leaders on the issue.