
INTERNATIONAL WEBINARS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
IN THE LIGHT OF THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF “LAUDATO SI”
AND OF “FRATELLI TUTTI” ENCYCLICALS
At the occasion of the 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PALERMO PROTOCOL (15 November 2020)
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 — THE ROLE OF CONSUMERS IN PREVENTING AND COMBATING HT
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Our 2020 program is available here
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A VIBRANT CALL FOR GLOBAL AND PERSONAL AWARENESS FOR ABOLISHING HUMAN TRAFFICKING
WEBINARS ON TUESDAYS
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16 February 2021
23 February 2021
2 March 2021
13 April 2021
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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.
30 years experience of police investigation. From 2010, Head for the establishment of the Metropolitan Police Human Trafficking response in UK and from 2014 to May 2018, first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner for the UK government, from 2018, Ireland’s representative to the Council of Europe Independent Group of Experts for Trafficking (Greta).
Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to monitor and combat human trafficking.
Principal Advisor on Modern Slavery for International Justice Mission (IJM), leading IJM’s center of excellence in addressing slavery and developing globally applicable best practices from IJM’s extensive programmatic experience worldwide. Peter has ten years’ counter-slavery experience with IJM in the field, having led two IJM field offices in combatting modern slavery. Peter has a Ba/LLB(Hons) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and began his career as a Crown Prosecutor in Auckland.
former Australian soldier and federal agent, Founder of Geneva-based Slave Free Trade, a nonprofit working on leveraging the might of the blockchain to rid the world of slave labor.

Ambassador, chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council since December 2019, 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.

Director of the Provincial Anti-Human Trafficking Coordination Office housed in the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services (MCSS, established to oversee and coordinate the implementation of Ontario’s Strategy to End Human Trafficking across government) — former HT victim.
Argentine Catholic bishop, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
Representative at the UN in Geneva for the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. She worked 30 years with survivors of trafficking in Germany and Albania. She is a workig board member of RENATE and of the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
Catholic Sicilian priest (Avola – 1963), President of Meter Association. In the dark and insidious part of the web he is engaged in the fight against the crime of pedophilia and child pornography. Member of the technical table of the National Observatory against pedophilia and online child pornography of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Member of the inter-institutional technical Group for the Fight against Pedophilia and Child Pornography of the Sicily Region. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Postal and Communications Police.
Honorary President, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Professor of International Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Milan. Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, President of the Tribunal from 2005 to 2008. Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). In 2017, Pocar was appointed Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
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INTERNATIONAL WEBINARS
ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
IN THE LIGHT OF THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY
OF “LAUDATO SI”
AND OF THE NEW “FRATELLI TUTTI” ENCYCLICAL
16
Tuesday
16.02.2021
18:00 -
20:00
(CET)
WATCH OUR ON-DEMAND VIDEO
ENGLISH VERSION:
FRENCH SUB-TITLED VERSION:
WHERE ARE WE NOW? — INTERNATIONAL PROSECUTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Speakers:
Professor Michel Veuthey, Moderator, Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Morgane Nicot, Discussant, UNODC Criminal Justice Officer, Team Leader, Knowledge Development / Human Trafficking & Migrant Smuggling
Kevin Hyland, 30 years experience of police investigation. From 2010, Head for the establishment of the Metropolitan Police Human Trafficking response in UK and from 2014 to May 2018, first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner for the UK government, from 2018, Ireland’s representative to the Council of Europe Independent Group of Experts for Trafficking (Greta). Currently Chair of the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment (the leverage of major international brands to promote responsible recruitment practices in the way that migrant workers are recruited) and senior advisor for the Santa Marta Group (Church and Law Enforcement Combatting Modern Slavery)
Dr. Olivia Smith, Human Trafficking Specialist, presently Project Lead, TIP National Action Plan (Trafficking In Persons Report), Barbados, American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI). She served for several years in various capacities within the Government of Barbados, the CARICOM Secretariat (Caribbean Community) and as Executive Director of the Caribbean Anti-Human Trafficking Foundation
Brian Iselin, former Australian soldier and federal agent, Founder of Geneva-based Slave Free Trade, a nonprofit working on leveraging the might of the blockchain to rid the world of slave labor
23
Tuesday
23.02.2021
18:00 -
20:00
(CET)
WHAT CAN BE DONE? — INTERNATIONAL PROSECUTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Speakers:
Professor Michel Veuthey, Moderator, Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Ambassador Elisabeth Tichy, Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council since December 2019, 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
Kevin Hyland, 30 years experience of police investigation. From 2010, Head for the establishment of the Metropolitan Police Human Trafficking response in UK and from 2014 to May 2018, first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner for the UK government, from 2018, Ireland’s representative to the Council of Europe Independent Group of Experts for Trafficking (Greta). Currently Chair of the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment (the leverage of major international brands to promote responsible recruitment practices in the way that migrant workers are recruited) and senior advisor for the Santa Marta Group (Church and Law Enforcement Combatting Modern Slavery)
Jennifer Richardson, Director of the Provincial Anti-Human Trafficking Coordination Office housed in the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services (MCSS, established to oversee and coordinate the implementation of Ontario’s Strategy to End Human Trafficking across government) — former HT victim
Peter Wiliams, Principal Advisor on Modern Slavery for International Justice Mission (IJM), leading IJM’s center of excellence in addressing slavery and developing globally applicable best practices from IJM’s extensive programmatic experience worldwide. Peter has ten years’ counter-slavery experience with IJM in the field, having led two IJM field offices in combatting modern slavery. Peter has a Ba/LLB(Hons) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and began his career as a Crown Prosecutor in Auckland
Brian Iselin, former Australian soldier and federal agent, Founder of Geneva-based Slave Free Trade, a nonprofit working on leveraging the might of the blockchain to rid the world of slave labor
Tuesday
02.03.2021
18:00 -
20:00
(CET)
Kevin Hyland, former Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner for the UK government: “This needs to change!” — Judges’ Summit on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime — THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 2016.
BEST PRACTICES — INTERNATIONAL PROSECUTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Speakers:
Professor Michel Veuthey, Moderator, Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Sr. Mirjam Beike, Discussant, Representative at the UN in Geneva for the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd (RGS) — board member of RENATE and of the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Msgr. Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Argentine Catholic bishop, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
Don Fortunato Di Noto, Catholic Sicilian priest (Avola – 1963), President of Meter Association. In the dark and insidious part of the web he is engaged in the fight against the crime of pedophilia and child pornography. Member of the technical table of the National Observatory against pedophilia and online child pornography of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Member of the inter-institutional technical Group for the Fight against Pedophilia and Child Pornography of the Sicily Region. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Postal and Communications Police
Professor Fausto Pocar, Honorary President, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Professor of International Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Milan. Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, President of the Tribunal from 2005 to 2008. Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). In 2017, Pocar was appointed Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case between Ukraine and the Russian Federation
Morgane Nicot,UNODC Criminal Justice Officer, Team Leader, Knowledge Development / Human Trafficking & Migrant Smuggling
John McCarthy QC, Chair of the Sydney Catholic Archdiocese Anti-Slavery Taskforce Executive Team, Australian Ambassador to the Holy See from 2012 to 2016. Prior to his ambassadorial appointment, he was a Queens Counsel at the NSW Bar and a barrister in Sydney
Brian Iselin, former Australian soldier and federal agent, Founder of Geneva-based Slave Free Trade, a nonprofit working on leveraging the might of the blockchain to rid the world of slave labor
13
Tuesday
13.04.2021
18:00 -
19:30
(CET)
DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING – THE ROLE OF CONSUMERS IN PREVENTING AND COMBATING HT
OPENING REMARKS — DEMAND’S RESPONSIBLITY: Professor Michel Veuthey, Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
INTRODUCTION ON DEMAND’S ROLE: Brian Iselin, 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:
Sr. Mirjam Beike, RGS, Moderator
Sandra Norak, Survivor of the “Lover Boy” Method to Traffick Women into Prostitution
Sr. Lea Ackermann, Founder of SOLWODI, an international association that helps women in emergency situations
Inge Bell, German human rights activist, entrepreneur and second chairperson of the women’s rights organization Terre des Femmes and the Bavarian branch of the aid organization Solwodi