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LEGAL APPROACHES TO REDUCING THE DEMAND BEHIND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

While law enforce­ment respons­es to human traf­fick­ing are the clear focus glob­al­ly, they are entire­ly sup­ply side. Sup­ply-side mea­sures can deter, dis­place, and dis­rupt spe­cif­ic oper­a­tions, but does not impact either the size of the nature of the illic­it mar­kets for labor. They also fail to counter the per­pet­u­al upward spi­ral of demand that dri­ves the traf­fick­ing of peo­ple. This over­whelm­ing sup­ply-side focus has meant legal respons­es on the demand side of the equa­tion are seri­ous­ly lack­ing. This webi­nar is designed to pro­voke ideas about how the law is used to dri­ve demand-side respons­es, reduc­ing the dri­ving force for all forms of human trafficking.

OPENING REMARKS:Professor Michel Veuthey, Ambas­sador of the Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta to Mon­i­tor and Com­bat Traf­fick­ing in Persons

IOM Rep­re­sen­ta­tive, to be appoint­ed: Intro­duc­tion to the event in Switzerland 

INTRODUCTION: Bri­an Iselin, Moderator,Founder of Gene­va-based Slave Free Trade, a non­prof­it work­ing on lever­ag­ing the might of the blockchain to rid the world of slave labor

Speak­ers:

Judge Marc STEINER, from 2007 Judge at the Swiss Fed­er­al Admin­is­tra­tive Court, His research focus­es on the legal impli­ca­tions of the inclu­sion of envi­ron­men­tal and social poli­cies in pub­lic pro­cure­ment prac­tices. He has deli­vered an exper­tise on Green Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment in Switzer­land (2006) and is­sued a work­ing pa­per on how to inte­grate social as­pects in pub­lic pro­cure­ment pro­ces­ses (2009, 4th ver­sion 2017). He is one of four co-authors of the stan­dard ref­er­ence work on the prac­tice of pub­lic pro­cure­ment in Switzer­land (“Prax­is des öffentlichen Beschaf­fungsrechts”, 3rd edi­tion 2013)

Christa Lug­in­bühl Tbc, Mem­ber of the Board of Direc­tors of Pub­lic Eyes (health, con­sump­tion and agri­cul­ture), an asso­ci­a­tion ana­lyz­ing the impact of Switzer­land and its com­pa­nies on poor coun­tries, a world in which the econ­o­my is at the ser­vice of peo­ple, guar­an­tee­ing fair work­ing con­di­tions and equi­table wages, through inves­ti­ga­tion, advo­ca­cy and polit­i­cal cam­paign­ing. By launch­ing the Respon­si­ble Multi­na­tion­als Ini­tia­tive as part of a broad coali­tion in 2016, Pub­lic Eye want­ed to write the next chap­ter in the reg­u­la­tion of multinationals

Pro­fes­sor Siob­hán Mul­lal­ly Tbc, U.N. Spe­cial Rap­por­teur on Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons, espe­cial­ly women and chil­dren, Pro­fes­sor of Human Rights Law and Direc­tor of the Irish Cen­tre for Human Rights at the School of Law, Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Ire­land, Gal­way. From 2012–2018, mem­ber of the Coun­cil of Europe Group of Experts on Action against Traf­fick­ing in Human Beings (GRETA), elect­ed as Pres­i­dent of GRETA from 2016–2018 and as 1st Vice-Pres­i­dent from 2014–2018

Pro­fes­sor Dr. h.c. Pao­lo BERNASCONI Tbc, Spe­cial­ist in Penal Busi­ness Law, Co-founder and Chair­man of the Board of the not for prof­it Asso­ci­a­tion “Ethics and Com­pli­ance Switzer­land (ECS)”, with seat in Berne (www.ethics-compliance.ch). Mem­ber of the Board of the Swiss Asso­ci­a­tion for Inter­na­tion­al and Euro­pean Penal Law, Zurich (Switzer­land), inter­na­tion­al expert in the fight against mon­ey laun­der­ing and corruption

Ambas­sador Elis­a­beth Tichy Tbc, Chair of the Unit­ed Nations Human Rights Coun­cil in 2020, Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Aus­tria to the Unit­ed Nations Office at Gene­va since Decem­ber 2017, for­mer Direc­tor Gen­er­al for Legal and Con­sular Affairs at the Fed­er­al Min­istry for Europe, Inte­gra­tion and For­eign Affairs. Ambas­sador Tichy-Fisslberg­er has been the first Aus­tri­an Nation­al Coor­di­na­tor on Com­bat­ting Human Traf­fick­ing as well as Pres­i­dent of the Aus­tri­an Task Force on Com­bat­ting Human Traf­fick­ing since 2009