INTERNATIONAL WEBINARS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
IN THE LIGHT OF THE “LAUDATO SI”
AND OF “FRATELLI TUTTI” ENCYCLICALS
Networking of international experts in the fight against human trafficking to promote common understanding and research of this scourge
Anthropological research to rebuild the “Common House” and give hope
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24 SEPTEMBER 2024 — GLOBAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING: TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM
Professor Thomas Pogge (World Poverty and Human Rights): Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to life- long severe poverty, with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective enslavement.
Citizens of the rich countries are, however, conditioned to downplay the severity and persistence of world poverty. Few realize that severe poverty is an ongoing harm we inflict upon the global poor.
If more of us understood the true magnitude of the problem of poverty and our causal involvement in it, we might do what is necessary to eradicate it?
Professor T. Pogge and Rev. Jose Nandhikkara from India discuss poverty and lack of social & economic development as well as the root causes of human trafficking, based on their experience and research
Trafficking
16 OCTOBER 2024 — SIDE EVENT TO THE UNHCR EXCOM — MIGRANTS, REFUGEES, MIGRANT SMUGGLING AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
The intertwined issues of migration, refugee flows, and trafficking in persons form a complex and urgent global challenge. The 2024 International Organization for Migration (IOM) Report estimates 281 million international migrants, including refugees fleeing conflict and persecution. Among these migrants, many are exploited through human trafficking
Trafficking
2 DECEMBER 2024 — EVENT AT THE UN GENEVA — 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE FAITH LEADERS’ UNIVERSAL DECLARATION AGAINST SLAVERY (ROME 2 DECEMBER 2014)
Reaffirming the commitment of the religious communities, Catholics, Protestants, Anglicans, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus
NOVEMBER 2024 — LAUNCH AND PRESENTATION OF THE “GLOBAL THEMATIC REPORT ON SPORT TRAFFICKING” RESEARCH PROJECT
Mission 89’s research into the issue will provide a detailed examination of the issue as it exists today, develop educational and vocational programs at grassroots level to empower those most vulnerable to exploitation, and establish a licensing and accreditation system to recognize legitimate institutions from sham organizations exploiting young athletes
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You will find a list of all our on-demand webinar in the chronological order at the end of the list of topics
ARMED CONFLICTS
BOYS & MALE SURVIVORS
25 APRIL 2023 — THE NEEDS AND STORIES OF MALE SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE, EXPLOITATION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
27 JUNE 2023 — MALE SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: PRESENTATION OF ENA LUCIA MARIACA PACHECO’S RESEARCH
12 SEPTEMBER 2023 — BEST PRACTICES IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION, HEALING, COLLABORATION, AND PROGRAMMES FOR MEN & BOYS
5 DECEMBER 2023 — CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING POLICY, LEGISLATION, INVESTIGATION, AND VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MALE VICTIMS
DEMAND
13 APRIL 2021 — DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING — SEX TRAFFICKING & PROSTITUTION
20 APRIL 2021 — DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING — FORCED LABOR — THE IMPORTANCE OF SUPPLY CHAIN CONTROL AND THE ROLE OF CONSUMER
12 OCTOBER 2021 — LEGAL APPROACHES TO REDUCING THE DEMAND BEHIND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
14 JUNE 2022 — DEMAND FOR HT: WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING AS CONSUMERS OF FORCED LABOR AND SEXUAL SLAVERY. HOW CAN WE END THIS CYCLE ?
29 NOVEMBER 2022 — FORCED LABOR AND TRANSPARENCY OF SUPPLY CHAINS: TOWARDS PRESCRIPTIVE OR LEGAL MANDATORY APPROACHES?
FAITH
20 OCTOBER 2020 — THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING — Video
27 OCTOBER 2020 — RELIGIOUS WORKING IN INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING — Video
8 DECEMBER 2021 — RELIGION AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
6 OCTOBER 2022 — HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND LAUDATO SI’:
TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM TO ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY,
TO PREVENT AND ERADICATE HUMAN TRAFFICKING
6 DECEMBER 2022 — FAITH AND FIGHT AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: TESTIMONIES OF SISTERS WORKING FOR THE REHABILITATION OF VICTIMS
7 MARCH 2023 — ANTHROPOLOGY — FABRICE HADJADJ — VIRTUAL AND REAL WORLDS: HOW TO INHABIT THE DEVASTATED EARTH?
16 MAY 2024 — THE ESSENTIAL ACTION OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS IN CARING FOR VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND THE URGENT NEED TO SUPPORT THEM
3 JULY 2024 — TESTIMONY OF THE WINNERS OF THE SISTERS ANTI-TRAFFICKING AWARDS 2024: RELIGIOUS SISTERS’ BEST PRACTICES AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
FORCED LABOR & SUPPLY CHAINS
HEALTH
01 DECEMBER 2020 — HEALTH IMPACT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING: TRAUMA
08 DECEMBER 2020 — HEALTH IMPACT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING: HEALING
18 MAI 2021 — ASSISTANCE HUMANITAIRE ET SOCIALE DES VICTIMES DE LA TRAITE DES ÊTRES HUMAINS
12 OCTOBER 2023 — LES SOINS DES TROUBLES DU STRESS POST-TRAUMATIQUE POUR LES VICTIMES DE LA TRAITE DES ÊTRES HUMAINS — PTSD CARE FOR HT VICTIMS
LEGAL & PROSECUTION
16 FEBRUARY 2021 — WHERE ARE WE NOW? — INTERNATIONAL PROSECUTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
23 FEBRUARY 2021 — WHAT CAN BE DONE? — INTERNATIONAL PROSECUTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
2 MARCH 2021 — BEST PRACTICES? — INTERNATIONAL PROSECUTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
11 MAI 2021 — ASPECTS JURIDIQUES DE LA TRAITE DES ÊTRES HUMAINS
28 JUNE 2022 — JUSTICE & HT: THE GAP BETWEEN THE LAW AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN PRACTICE
LEGAL & SUPPLY CHAINS
MIGRATION
NEW PARADIGM
6 OCTOBER 2022 — HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND LAUDATO SI’:
TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM TO ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY,
TO PREVENT AND ERADICATE HUMAN TRAFFICKING
7 MARCH 2023 — ANTHROPOLOGY — FABRICE HADJADJ — VIRTUAL AND REAL WORLDS: HOW TO INHABIT THE DEVASTATED EARTH?
14 MARCH 2023 — FROM MOTIVATION TO VOCATION: BRIAN ISELIN’S JOURNEY AGAINST SLAVERY
PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES
SEX TRAFFICKING
TECHNOLOGY
TESTIMONIES
20 OCTOBER 2020 — THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING — Video
27 OCTOBER 2020 — RELIGIOUS WORKING IN INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING — Video
8 DECEMBER 2021 — RELIGION AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
8 FEBRUARY 2022 — SEXUAL SLAVERY — TESTIMONY AND DEFENDING VICTIMS — MIDDLE EASTERN AND NIGERIAN WOMEN ENSLAVED
8 MARCH 2022 — WOMEN AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
6 DECEMBER 2022 — FAITH AND FIGHT AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: TESTIMONIES OF SISTERS WORKING FOR THE REHABILITATION OF VICTIMS
UN GENEVA & NEW YORK
27 MARCH 2023 — SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN ARMED CONFLICTS AND POST-CONFLICT SITUATIONS
4 JULY 2023 — SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — NON-PUNISHMENT OF VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING:
ENHANCING PROTECTION OF VICTIMS
20 SEPTEMBER 2023 — SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — RAISING AWARENESS ON CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY
11 DECEMBER 2023 — SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — REFUGEE PROTECTION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING: AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR THE GLOBAL REFUGEE FORUM 2023
11 JANUARY 2024 — SIDE EVENT AT UN NEW YORK HEADQUARTERS — HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTATIVE STRATEGIES AND CARE OF VICTIMS
20 JUNE 2024 — SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — MOBILIZING AGAINST TRAFFICKING, EXPLOITATION, AND MODERN SLAVERY IN SPORT — A CALL TO ACTION
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF OUR ON-DEMAND WEBINARS
20 OCTOBER 2020 — THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING — Video
27 OCTOBER 2020 — RELIGIOUS WORKING IN INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING — Video
01 DECEMBER 2020 — HEALTH IMPACT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING: TRAUMA
08 DECEMBER 2020 — HEALTH IMPACT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING: HEALING
16 FEBRUARY 2021 — WHERE ARE WE NOW? — INTERNATIONAL PROSECUTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
23 FEBRUARY 2021 — WHAT CAN BE DONE? — INTERNATIONAL PROSECUTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
2 MARCH 2021 — BEST PRACTICES? — INTERNATIONAL PROSECUTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
13 APRIL 2021 — DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING — SEX TRAFFICKING & PROSTITUTION
20 APRIL 2021 — DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING — FORCED LABOR — THE IMPORTANCE OF SUPPLY CHAIN CONTROL AND THE ROLE OF CONSUMER
5 MAY 2021 — ROOT CAUSES FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING — THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY
11 MAI 2021 — ASPECTS JURIDIQUES DE LA TRAITE DES ÊTRES HUMAINS
18 MAI 2021 — ASSISTANCE HUMANITAIRE ET SOCIALE DES VICTIMES DE LA TRAITE DES ÊTRES HUMAINS
22 JUNE 2021 — MODERN SLAVERY AND DECENT WORK
12 OCTOBER 2021 — LEGAL APPROACHES TO REDUCING THE DEMAND BEHIND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
16 NOVEMBER 2021 — MIGRATION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
8 DECEMBER 2021 — RELIGION AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
8 FEBRUARY 2022 — SEXUAL SLAVERY — TESTIMONY AND DEFENDING VICTIMS — MIDDLE EASTERN AND NIGERIAN WOMEN ENSLAVED
8 MARCH 2022 — WOMEN AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
14 JUNE 2022 — DEMAND FOR HT: WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING AS CONSUMERS OF FORCED LABOR AND SEXUAL SLAVERY. HOW CAN WE END THIS CYCLE ?
28 JUNE 2022 — JUSTICE & HT: THE GAP BETWEEN THE LAW AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN PRACTICE
20 SEPTEMBER 2022 — COUNTERING THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO RECRUIT AND CONTROL VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING, ESPECIALLY RELATED TO THE SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN
6 OCTOBER 2022 — HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND LAUDATO SI’:
TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM TO ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY,
TO PREVENT AND ERADICATE HUMAN TRAFFICKING
7 NOVEMBER 2022 — HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MIGRATION: CURRENT ASSESSMENT OF THE PERILOUS JOURNEY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
29 NOVEMBER 2022 — FORCED LABOR AND TRANSPARENCY OF SUPPLY CHAINS: TOWARDS PRESCRIPTIVE OR LEGAL MANDATORY APPROACHES?
6 DECEMBER 2022 — FAITH AND FIGHT AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: TESTIMONIES OF SISTERS WORKING FOR THE REHABILITATION OF VICTIMS
7 MARCH 2023 — ANTHROPOLOGY — FABRICE HADJADJ — VIRTUAL AND REAL WORLDS: HOW TO INHABIT THE DEVASTATED EARTH?
14 MARCH 2023 — FROM MOTIVATION TO VOCATION: BRIAN ISELIN’S JOURNEY AGAINST SLAVERY
27 MARCH 2023 — SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN ARMED CONFLICTS AND POST-CONFLICT SITUATIONS
25 APRIL 2023 — THE NEEDS AND STORIES OF MALE SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE, EXPLOITATION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
27 JUNE 2023 — MALE SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: PRESENTATION OF ENA LUCIA MARIACA PACHECO’S RESEARCH
4 JULY 2023 — SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — NON-PUNISHMENT OF VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING:
ENHANCING PROTECTION OF VICTIMS
12 SEPTEMBER 2023 — BEST PRACTICES IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION, HEALING, COLLABORATION, AND PROGRAMMES FOR MEN & BOYS
20 SEPTEMBER 2023 — SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — RAISING AWARENESS ON CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY
12 OCTOBER 2023 — LES SOINS DES TROUBLES DU STRESS POST-TRAUMATIQUE POUR LES VICTIMES DE LA TRAITE DES ÊTRES HUMAINS — PTSD CARE FOR HT VICTIMS
30 NOVEMBER 2023 — HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND HUMAN RIGHTS
5 DECEMBER 2023 — CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING POLICY, LEGISLATION, INVESTIGATION, AND VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MALE VICTIMS
11 DECEMBER 2023 — SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — REFUGEE PROTECTION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING: AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR THE GLOBAL REFUGEE FORUM 2023
11 JANUARY 2024 — SIDE EVENT AT UN NEW YORK HEADQUARTERS — HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTATIVE STRATEGIES AND CARE OF VICTIMS
16 MAY 2024 — THE ESSENTIAL ACTION OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS IN CARING FOR VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND THE URGENT NEED TO SUPPORT THEM
20 JUNE 2024 — SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — MOBILIZING AGAINST TRAFFICKING, EXPLOITATION, AND MODERN SLAVERY IN SPORT — A CALL TO ACTION
3 JULY 2024 — TESTIMONY OF THE WINNERS OF THE SISTERS ANTI-TRAFFICKING AWARDS 2024: RELIGIOUS SISTERS’ BEST PRACTICES AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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Speakers
Watch good practices leaders for victims of human trafficking
The Ad Laudato Si Forum brings together international ethical’s top academics, politicians, business, youth, and civil society leaders to engage in addressing the most pressing issues linked to the future of our common world.
Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to monitor and combat human trafficking. President of the Foundation Collège Universitaire Henry Dunant (CUHD). Doctor of Laws of the University of Geneva, Professor of International Law at Webster University Geneva. From 2010 to 2019, Vice-President of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Sanremo. He worked in the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 1967 to 2000, as head of the Division of International Organizations, Delegate General for Europe and North America, Regional Delegate for Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean and as Assistant to the President.
Director of the Department of International Refugee Law and Migration Law, International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IHL).
UNHCR’s Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean Situation as of 1 June 2017. He assumed since 1 March 2013, the functions of Director of the Bureau for Europe of UNHCR. From 2 September 2015 to 1 January 2017, Mr. Cochetel had also assumed the function of UNHCR’s Regional Refugee Coordinator for the refugee crisis in Europe.”
Survivor of child sex trafficking and re-exploitation. She works globally to educate and support those impacted by trauma while advocating for ethical care for complex trauma survivors. In 2021, Kendall was invited to address the United Nations General Assembly. Her artwork and activism were also recently featured on CNN International, Amazon News, and BBC Radio. Founder of the University Alliance on Human Trafficking. Kendall Alaimo explores trauma across the life span, dissects common roadblocks to applying current treatment modalities, and provides clinical solutions to complex trauma care.
Head of the Knowledge Management Department of GSIF Good Shepherd International Foundation which won the Thomson Reuters Foundation Stop Slavery Award for their work fighting the exploitation of children forced to work in mines in DR Congo.
Organisers
The Foundation Henry Dunant University College (CUHD), based in Geneva (Switzerland), in the hearts of the international community, organizes the platform “adlaudatosi” to promote its webinars on the themes of integral ecology and the fight against human trafficking as well as to contribute to the promotion of a true culture of human rights and human dignity. A new hope is needed to give new impetus to our societies in crisis: a culture that promotes the dignity and integral development of the person must be taught to build a just world and a future for every human being. The theme of integral ecology is central to our thinking. Professor Michel Veuthey, Ambassador of the Order of Malta to monitor and combat trafficking In persons, is CUHD’s President and the initiator of the adlaudatosi project. The Henry Dunant University College Foundation is recognized as a public utility and is controlled by the Swiss Federal Supervisory Authority for Foundations; its donors benefit from tax deductions.
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INTERNATIONAL WEBINARS
ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
IN THE LIGHT OF “LAUDATO SI”
AND OF THE “FRATELLI TUTTI” ENCYCLICALS
24
Tuesday
24.09.2024
18:00 -
19:30
(CEST)
GLOBAL JUSTICE & HUMAN TRAFFICKING: TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM
Professor Thomas Pogge (World Poverty and Human Rights): Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to life- long severe poverty, with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective enslavement.
If more of us understood the true magnitude of the problem of poverty and our causal involvement in it, we might do what is necessary to eradicate it?
Professor T. Pogge and Rev. Jose Nandhikkara from India discuss poverty and lack of social & economic development as well as the root causes of human trafficking, based on their experience and research.
OPENING REMARKS:
H.E. Ambassador Michel Veuthey, Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Speakers:
Prof. Thomas Pogge, Moderator, Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale while also holding a part-time position at the University of Central Lancashire. Pogge is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science as well as co-founder of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international network aiming to enhance the impact of scholars, teachers and students on global poverty, and of Incentives for Global Health, a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org)
Rev. Jose Nandhikkara, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram and Christ University, Bangalore, India. He also serves as Director of the Centre for the Study of World Religions and Chief Editor of the Journal of Dharma. Three Bachelor degrees in Philosophy, Geology, and Theology and an MA in Philosophy and Theology from Oxford University, as well as a Licentiate in Philosophy from Gregorian University, Rome. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Warwick University, UK. His doctoral dissertation is titled Being Human from a Religious Point of View, after Wittgenstein
16
Wednesday
16.10.2024
13:00 -
14:30
(CEST)
SIDE EVENT TO THE UNHCR EXCOM — MIGRANTS, REFUGEES, MIGRANT SMUGGLING AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
The intertwined issues of migration, refugee flows, and trafficking in persons form a complex and urgent global challenge. The 2024 International Organization for Migration (IOM) Report estimates 281 million international migrants, including refugees fleeing conflict and persecution. Among these migrants, many are exploited through human trafficking
CO-ORGANIZERS: Permanent Mission of the Holy See Geneva, Sovereign Order of Malta, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, UNHCR
CO-SPONSORS: Permanent Mission of Italy, Permanent Mission of Switzerland
OPENING REMARKS:
H.E. Ambassador Michel Veuthey, Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Speakers:
H.E. Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, Since 21 June 2023, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and Specialized Institutions in Geneva and to the World Trade Organization, and Representative of the Holy See to the International Organization for Migration. From 6 July 2018, Head of Mission of the Holy See at the Apostolic Nunciature to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and from 27 April 2019 Apostolic Nuncio to the DRC. From 22 February 2013, Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia. Episcopal Consecration on 27 April 2013. He served in the Pontifical Representations in South Korea and Mongolia (1996–1998), the Netherlands (1998–2001) and in the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See (2001–2009). From 19 August 2009, Under Secretary for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Rome on 18 September 1993, and possesses a Licentiate Degree in Theology and a Doctorate in Canon Law
Prof. Claudio Delfabro,Moderator, Academic background in Political Science and specialized on conflict resolution in Russia. He has worked in different conflict areas, including Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo where he developed legal aid programs, legal reform and lead return and reintegration processes of internally displaced persons. In Latin America, he advised governments and civil society on refugee protection and statelessness related issues. He was the first Head of the Protection Section at the UNHCR training centre (the Global Learning and Development Centre)
Alem Makkonen, Senior Policy Officer at the Protection Division, IOM
Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR’s Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean Situation as of 1 June 2017. He assumed since 1 March 2013, the functions of Director of the Bureau for Europe of UNHCR. From 2 September 2015 to 1 January 2017, Mr. Cochetel had also assumed the function of UNHCR’s Regional Refugee Coordinator for the refugee crisis in Europe
Kendall Alaimo, Survivor of child sex trafficking and re-exploitation. She works globally to educate and support those impacted by trauma while advocating for ethical care for complex trauma survivors. In 2021, Kendall was invited to address the United Nations General Assembly. Her artwork and activism were also recently featured on CNN International, Amazon News, and BBC Radio. Founder of the University Alliance on Human Trafficking. Kendall Alaimo explores trauma across the life span, dissects common roadblocks to applying current treatment modalities, and provides clinical solutions to complex trauma care
Simone Capolupo, Head of the Knowledge Management Department of GSIF Good Shepherd International Foundation which won the Thomson Reuters Foundation Stop Slavery Award for their work fighting the exploitation of children forced to work in mines in DR Congo