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Fighting Human
Trafficking and Slavery with Social Enterprise
Thursday, May
17, 2007
4:30 Registration
MCLE, 10 Winter Place,
Boston, MA
A conference hosted by
United Nations Association of Greater Boston
and TiE Boston Social Entrepreneurship Group
In cooperation with Global Gain and Women’s Forum@UNA-GB
Human trafficking is the third
largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the world. The US
government estimates that up to 800,000 people – mostly women
and children – are trafficked across international borders every year,
and the UN puts the figure for trafficked and enslaved people at 2.5
million. The international community has taken notice of this serious
and growing problem, with the UN announcing in March 2007 a new global
fund to fight international human trafficking and forced labor, a
problem that it said has grown to epidemic proportions, and is rarely
effectively prosecuted by governments.
While progress has been made in the area of the creation of legal
instruments for prosecuting traffickers, including the introduction of
the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the industry of trading humans
continues to prosper, approaching the same scale as the illicit trades
in drugs and in weapons.
Who are these unseen victims and why are they vulnerable to
the false promises of employment, opportunity, better lives? It is
a question that becomes more pressing as the scope of this modern day
slavery becomes more evident. Poverty is the common thread in the many
stories of trafficking victims: the mother who leaves her family for
promises of work in a foreign country; a parent who sells a child
as a domestic servant; a teenager who falls deep into the sex trade.
This conference will address poverty as a root cause of human
trafficking, and the potential for social enterprise to combat
trafficking, both as a preventive measure in at-risk groups and a tool
for empowering former victims.
Conference
Agenda
4:30 Registration
4:45 Panel 1: Human Trafficking: Local
and International Perspectives on the Scope, Nature and Causes of
Modern-Day Slavery
Moderator: Thomas Burke, Director, Global
Health at Mass. General Hospital; Board
Member, UN Population Fund
Carol Gomez, Founder, Trafficking Victims
Outreach & Services Network
Bhuwan Ribhu, Founder, Save the Childhood
Foundation
6:15 Dinner Buffet
7:00 Keynote Address
Given Kachepa, Trafficking Survivor from Zambia
7:45 Panel 2: Social Enterprise to Combat
Human Trafficking
Moderator, Nathan Cryder, Executive Director,
Global Gain
John Berger ,Co-Founder and CEO, The Emancipation Network
Estelle Day, Director of Anti-Trafficking
Programming, World Education
Nina Smith, Executive Director, RugMark USA
9:15 Closing
Remarks
Registration
Fees: $15 Members/$25 Non-Members
$10 Student Members/$15 Student Non-Members
Registration is available online, and includes an Indian Dinner Buffet.
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