One goal of a July 13 event at the United Nations on human trafficking was "to make real the faces of the nearly two million children and youth who are presently being trafficked," said the Vatican's UN nuncio.

Another was for participants to discuss "what's working, what's not working and what needs to be done to free them, help them recover, and prevent other young people from suffering as they have," said Archbishop Bernardito Auza, who heads the Holy See's Permanent Observer Mission at the UN.