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DEMAND FOR HT: WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING AS CONSUMERS OF FORCED LABOR AND SEXUAL SLAVERY. HOW CAN WE END THIS CYCLE ?

We will not stop human traf­fick­ing with­out reduc­ing the demand for all types of traf­fick­ing. Every­thing must be done, new laws, edu­ca­tion, new buy­ing habits, sus­tain­able finance with­out con­flicts of inter­est to stop this scourge

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

Speak­ers:

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, spe­cial­ist and pro­mot­er of demand-side respons­es, reduc­ing the dri­ving force for all forms of human traf­fick­ing. For­mer Aus­tralian sol­dier and fed­er­al agent, 30 years of expe­ri­ence in the fight against human traf­fick­ing at the inter­na­tion­al level

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

Valiant Richey Tbc, OSCE Spe­cial Rep­re­sen­ta­tive and Co-ordi­na­tor for Com­bat­ing Traf­fick­ing in Human Beings. He rep­re­sents the OSCE at the polit­i­cal lev­el on anti-traf­fick­ing issues, and assists the 57 OSCE par­tic­i­pat­ing States in the devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of anti-traf­fick­ing strate­gies and ini­tia­tives. His Office also has a co-ordi­nat­ing func­tion among OSCE struc­tures and insti­tu­tions involved in com­bat­ing traf­fick­ing in human beings. Before join­ing the OSCE, Val worked for thir­teen years as a pros­e­cu­tor in Seat­tle han­dling sex­u­al assault, child exploita­tion and human traf­fick­ing cas­es. He led a coali­tion of law enforce­ment, NGOs, aca­d­e­mics, ser­vice providers, phil­an­thropists, and pol­i­cy mak­ers focused on the erad­i­ca­tion of com­mer­cial sex­u­al exploita­tion and traf­fick­ing in Wash­ing­ton State, and he was appoint­ed by the Attor­ney Gen­er­al to rep­re­sent pros­e­cu­tors on the Wash­ing­ton State Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons Coor­di­nat­ing Com­mit­tee. He has a Bach­e­lor of Arts and Mas­ter of Arts in Polit­i­cal Sci­ence from Boston Uni­ver­si­ty and a Juris Doc­tor from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Washington

Denise Ritchie Tbc, Founder of “stop demand“which works to iden­ti­fy, chal­lenge and seek a shift in atti­tudes and beliefs that under­pin and sus­tain all forms of sex­u­al vio­lence, sex­u­al exploita­tion and sex­u­al den­i­gra­tion of women and chil­dren. She has worked on Stop Demand relat­ed issues local­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly since 1993. She has been instru­men­tal in law reform changes (child sex tourism and child sex abuse image offend­ing). She is a pas­sion­ate cam­paign­er and pub­lic speak­er. Denise holds a BA(Hons)Psych, LLB(Hons) and a New Zealand Order of Mer­it for ser­vices to the pre­ven­tion of sex­u­al vio­lence and exploitation

JUSTICE & HT: THE GAP BETWEEN THE LAW AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN PRACTICE

Assess­ment of the present sit­u­a­tion and pro­pos­als of experts trafficking

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

Speak­ers:

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

Alain Wern­er, Swiss Swiss human rights lawyer, spe­cial­ized in the defence of vic­tims of armed con­flicts. Founder and Direc­tor of Civ­i­tas Max­i­ma (CM), an inter­na­tion­al net­work of lawyers and inves­ti­ga­tors based in Gene­va that since 2012 rep­re­sents vic­tims of mass crimes in their attempts to obtain justice

Ben­jamin Greer Tbc,Emer­gency Man­age­ment Coor­di­na­tor / Instruc­tor, Office of the Gov­er­nor of Cal­i­for­nia, for­mer Spe­cial Deputy Attor­ney Gen­er­al Cal­i­for­nia. He devel­ops Anti-Traf­fick­ing Train­ings for Law Enforce­ment and Emer­gency Man­age­ment Per­son­nel for the Cal­i­for­nia Office of Emer­gency Ser­vices. Present research focus­ing on inter­na­tion­al ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions and how they are tac­ti­cal­ly uti­liz­ing traf­fick­ing to sup­port their crim­i­nal enter­pris­es (Groups like Boko Haram, Islam­ic State and Al-Shabaab al have added traf­fick­ing as a finan­cial com­po­nent)