We present you the three laureates of the 2025 Sisters’ Anti-Trafficking Awards. These awards honor three women who have demonstrated exceptional courage, creativity, collaboration, and achievement in protecting their communities from human trafficking.

Meet Sr. Margaret Ng, RSJ (Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart), from Australia, received the Servant Leadership Award, for excellence in network-building. 

Working against trafficking for 20 years, Margaret founded the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart Counter Trafficking Program back in 2004.

In 2005 Margaret was a co-founder of Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking of Humans (ACRATH) and has been a full member since and part of the ACRATH team who annually meet with the Federal Government ministers and departments in the Capital to raise issues on human trafficking and slavery and advocate for systemic change. Sr. Margaret held the position of New South Wales Regional Coordinator for ACRATH twice.  

She assists survivors individually and in groups in the enculturation process. She is well respected because of this unique contribution. Margaret has met with Ambassadors in Foreign Embassies in Canberra to discuss issues arising with victims she has worked with and students and this has resulted in strong ties with the Philippines Embassy.

In partnership with the Salvation Army Margaret founded a Safehouse in Sydney for women who have been trafficked and continues to visit every week. Margaret also runs awareness raising sessions for adult groups, schools and parish groups

TESTIMONY: ‘In 2015 Margaret, with four parishioners in a Catholic parish in Sydney, founded PATH (Parish Against Trafficking of Humans). The group focuses on awareness raising, advocacy and support of victims of Human Trafficking. The group is well established now and Margaret remains a supportive force. Margaret regularly collaborates closely with Be Slavery Free, Red Cross, Anti-Slavery Australia and Forced Marriage Network. In one instance we were able to assist a victim of forced marriage to return from overseas, after she had fled to the airport in her pyjamas.’