RELIGIOUS WORKING IN INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING

“Char­i­ty has to go togeth­er with act­ing for Jus­tice. Reli­gious will explain to us how they try to be the voice for oth­ers, who can not speak for them­selves. We will hear about net­work­ing, aware­ness rais­ing activ­i­ties, pre­ven­tion work, train­ing and advocacy.” 

OPENING REMARKS — OM HUMANITARIAN DIPLOMACY AGAINST HT: Pro­fes­sor Michel Veuthey, Ambas­sador of the Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta to Mon­i­tor and Com­bat Traf­fick­ing in Persons

INTRODUCTION ON ADVOCACY AND ROOT CAUSES: Mgr. Robert Vit­il­lo, Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al, ICMC

Speak­ers:

Sr. Mir­jam Beike, RGS, Moderator

Sr. Imel­da Poole, IBVM, Pres­i­dent of RENATE Net­work, OBE

Sr. Winifred Doher­ty, NGO Main Rep­re­sen­ta­tive at the UN in NY, Good Shep­herd Sisters

Bri­an Bond, Direc­tor of Edmund Rice Inter­na­tion­al, com­mit­ted to work­ing for chil­dren and young peo­ple who are marginalised

CONCLUSION: Luke de Pul­ford, Direc­tor and Co-Founder ARISE Foundation

IMPACT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON HEALTH: TRAUMA

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

Speak­ers:

Sr. Mir­jam Beike, RGS, Moderator

Ire­na Kra­ja, , Psy­chol­o­gist at MWL Advice & Ser­vice Cen­ter of Tirana ASC (Alba­nia)

Dr. Eliz­a­beth Saenz, M.D., UNODC, Project coor­di­na­tor, Liai­son Offi­cer WHO Geneva

Theo Hen­drickx, Man­na Foun­da­tion’ Founder. The Man­na Foun­da­tion offers psy­choso­cial, pas­toral and ther­a­peu­tic help and advices on poly­clin­i­cal basis. The exper­tise bureau offers a wide range of assis­tance, train­ing and sci­en­tif­ic research with regard to human traf­fick­ing, specif­i­cal­ly to Lover­boy prob­lems, domes­tic vio­lence and hon­or relat­ed vio­lence. Theo Hen­drickx is also a for­mer police official

IMPACT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON HEALTH: HEALING

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

Speak­ers:

Sr. Mir­jam Beike, RGS, Moderator

Mar­i­ana Meshi, Direc­tor of the shel­ter “Dif­fer­ent & Equal” in Tirana Albania

Ade­la­j­da Alikaj, has a back­ground in clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gy, and has worked for 4 years direct­ly with vic­tims of traf­fick­ing in the Orga­ni­za­tion Dif­fer­ent & Equal. She has giv­en con­tri­bu­tion in dif­fer­ent roles in the orga­ni­za­tion, orga­niz­ing Art Ther­a­py Ses­sions, which is a form of psy­chother­a­py that uses art as its pri­ma­ry mode of expres­sion and communication

Ornela Hinaj, Psy­chol­o­gist, Art­ther­a­pist of the shel­ter “Dif­fer­ent & Equal”

Ire­na Kra­ja, Coor­di­na­tor / Psy­chol­o­gist at MWL Advice & Ser­vice Cen­ter of Tirana ASC (Alba­nia)

• Trau­ma: hav­ing been traf­ficked leads to severe trau­ma for the per­sons concerned.

• The steps of a long process of heal­ing: in this Webi­nar we learn why the heal­ing and rein­te­gra­tion process of vic­tims of traf­fick­ing is so long and complex.

• Art ther­a­py: we will learn more about a shel­ter for sur­vivors of traf­fick­ing in Alba­nia, and how this shel­ter pro­vides rein­te­gra­tion ser­vices to their ben­e­fi­cia­ries, with a high­light on art ther­a­py, which is sur­pris­ing­ly effec­tive for vic­tims of trauma.

• Inter­cul­tur­al approach­es: we will take a deep­er look into prac­ti­cal meth­ods and dif­fer­ent approach­es on how to help vic­tims of traf­fick­ing, who find them­selves in a cul­ture which is very dif­fer­ent from their own.

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

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

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

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

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

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

DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING – SEX TRAFFICKING & PROSTITUTION

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

Speak­ers:

Sr. Mir­jam Beike, RGS, Moderator

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

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

DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING – FORCED LABOR, THE IMPORTANCE OF SUPPLY CHAIN CONTROL BY PRODUCERS AND THE ROLE OF CONSUMERS

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

Sr. Mir­jam Beike, RGS, Moderator

Speak­ers:

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

John Antho­ny McCarthy, Chair of the Catholic Arch­dio­cese of Syd­ney Anti-Slav­ery Task­force Exec­u­tive Team, Aus­tralian Ambas­sador to the Holy See from 2012 to 2016, QC, Queens Coun­sel at the NSW Bar and a bar­ris­ter in Sydney

Cristi­na Duran­ti, Direc­tor 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

ROOT CAUSES FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING – THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY

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

Sr. Mir­jam Beike, RGS, Moderator

Speak­ers:

Andrea March­esani, Spe­cial Advis­er of the Order of Mal­ta, Mem­ber of the Migrants & Refugees Sec­tion and Inte­gral Human Devel­opp­ment Dept. of the Holy See

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

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

Shawn Kohl, Direc­tor for Cen­tral and East­ern Europe for Inter­na­tion­al Jus­tice Mis­sion, a human rights agency that secures jus­tice for vic­tims of slav­ery, sex­u­al exploita­tion and oth­er forms of vio­lent oppres­sion. IJM lawyers, inves­ti­ga­tors and after­care pro­fes­sion­als work with local gov­ern­ments to ensure vic­tim res­cue, to pros­e­cute per­pe­tra­tors and to strength­en the com­mu­ni­ty and civic fac­tors that pro­mote func­tion­ing pub­lic jus­tice systems

ASPECTS JURIDIQUES DE LA TRAITE DES ÊTRES HUMAINS

INTRODUCTION : Pro­fesseur Michel Veuthey, Ambas­sadeur de l’Or­dre de Malte pour lut­ter con­tre la traite des êtres humains

Inter­venants :

Nico­las Le Coz, Lieu­tenant-Colonel de la gen­darmerie nationale et com­man­dant en sec­ond de l’Of­fice cen­tral de lutte con­tre les crimes con­tre l’hu­man­ité et les crimes de haine (OCLCH)

Mor­gane Nicot, Offici­er de jus­tice pénale de l’ONUDC, Chef d’équipe, Développe­ment des con­nais­sances / Traite des êtres humains et traf­ic de migrants

Geneviève Colas, Respon­s­able de la traite des êtres humains au Sec­ours Catholique, Mem­bre de la com­mis­sion nationale con­sul­ta­tive des Droits de l’Homme (France)-Caritas France

ASSISTANCE HUMANITAIRE ET SOCIALE DES VICTIMES DE LA TRAITE DES ÊTRES HUMAINS

INTRODUCTION : Pro­fesseur Michel Veuthey, Ambas­sadeur de l’Or­dre de Malte pour lut­ter con­tre la traite des êtres humains

Inter­venants :

Geneviève Colas, Respon­s­able de la traite des êtres humains au Sec­ours Catholique, Mem­bre de la com­mis­sion nationale con­sul­ta­tive des Droits de l’Homme (France)-Caritas France

Cécile Riou-Batista, Secré­taire générale adjointe de la Com­mis­sion Nationale Con­sul­ta­tive des Droits de l’Homme (CNCDH)

Cristi­na Duran­ti, Direc­trice de la Fon­da­tion Inter­na­tionale du Bon Pas­teur, qui a rem­porté le prix Stop Slav­ery de la Fon­da­tion Thom­son Reuters pour son tra­vail de lutte con­tre l’ex­ploita­tion des enfants for­cés de tra­vailler dans les mines en République Démoc­ra­tique du Congo

Olivi­er Pey­roux, Soci­o­logue et cofon­da­teur de Tra­jec­toires, asso­ci­a­tion spé­cial­isée dans la prise en compte des pop­u­la­tions migrantes habi­tant en bidonville et squats en France

Nico­las Le Coz, Lieu­tenant-Colonel de la gen­darmerie nationale et com­man­dant en sec­ond de l’Of­fice cen­tral de lutte con­tre les crimes con­tre l’hu­man­ité et les crimes de haine (OCLCH)

MODERN SLAVERY AND DECENT WORK

Join us for a bet­ter under­stand­ing of the grow­ing phe­nom­e­non of mod­ern slav­ery, through the inter­sect­ing per­spec­tives of an econ­o­mist Pro­fes­sor Marc Ches­ney, a vic­tim assis­tance expert Cristi­na Duran­ti and a sup­ply chain spe­cial­ist Bri­an Iselin, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Vat­i­can’s Migrants & Refugees — Inte­gral Human Devel­op­ment sec­tion Andrea March­esani and a psy­chol­o­gist Dr. Gabriele Spina help­ing migrants and young peo­ple who work in a hyper-com­pet­i­tive econ­o­my that all too often func­tions with under­paid jobs. As our pre­vi­ous sem­i­nars have demon­strat­ed, a new approach based on the demand for goods and ser­vices relat­ed to human traf­fick­ing should be devel­oped by all actors, gov­ern­ments, to reduce and erad­i­cate mod­ern slavery.

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

Sr. Mir­jam Beike, RGS, Mod­er­a­tor, 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

Speak­ers:

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

Cristi­na Duran­ti, Direc­tor 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

Andrea March­esani, Spe­cial Advis­er of the Order of Mal­ta, Mem­ber of the Migrants & Refugees Sec­tion and Inte­gral Human Devel­op­ment Dicas­t­ery of the Holy See

Dr. Gabriele Spina, psy­chol­o­gist, project man­ag­er for the Con­sor­tium Il Nodo in Cata­nia Italy, in charge of youth pro­tec­tion and migrants

Prof. Marc Ches­ney, Head of Depart­ment of Bank­ing and Finance and the Cen­ter of Com­pe­tence in Sus­tain­able Finance of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zürich (Switzer­land), after hav­ing been asso­ciate dean of HEC Paris, author of “The Per­ma­nent Cri­sis: The Finan­cial Oli­garchy and the Fail­ure of Democ­ra­cy”, for many years he has been devel­op­ing a crit­i­cal analy­sis of the finan­cial sec­tor and its con­se­quences on the real econ­o­my and on the hostage-tak­ing of democracies

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 do not impact either the size of the nature or 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

Claire Potaux Vesy, IOM-Berne’s Deputy Chief of Mis­sion, Coor­di­na­tion Office for Switzer­land and Liechtenstein

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

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)

John Antho­ny McCarthy, Chair of the Catholic Arch­dio­cese of Syd­ney Anti-Slav­ery Task­force Exec­u­tive Team, Aus­tralian Ambas­sador to the Holy See from 2012 to 2016, QC, Queens Coun­sel at the NSW Bar and a bar­ris­ter in Sydney

MIGRATION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING — ASSESSMENT OF THE PRESENT SITUATION AND PROPOSALS OF EXPERTS 

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

Speak­ers:

Pro­fes­sor Siob­hán MULLALLY, U.N. Spe­cial Rap­por­teur on traf­fick­ing in per­sons, espe­cial­ly in women and chil­dren. Pro­fes­sor of Human Rights Law and Direc­tor of the Irish Cen­tre for Human Rights at NUI Gal­way. From 2017–19, Pro­fes­sor Mul­lal­ly was the Pres­i­dent of the Coun­cil of Europe treaty mon­i­tor­ing body, the Group of Experts on Action against Traf­fick­ing (GRETA)

Kel­ly RYAN, For­mer Coor­di­na­tor of the inter­gov­ern­men­tal con­sul­ta­tions on migra­tion, asy­lum and refugees (CIG). As a senior offi­cial of the Unit­ed States Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment, from 2010 to 2013, she was act­ing Assis­tant Deputy Sec­re­tary for immi­gra­tion and bor­der secu­ri­ty at the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty. Vice-Pres­i­dent of Hen­ry Dunant Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege (CUHD)

Andria KENNEY, Counter Traf­fick­ing in Emer­gen­cies Spe­cial­ist — Migrant Pro­tec­tion and Assis­tance Divi­sion Inter­na­tion­al Orga­ni­za­tion for Migra­tion. Pri­or to man­ag­ing glob­al projects from IOM’s head­quar­ters, Andria has assist­ed vul­ner­a­ble migrants in con­flict-affect­ed envi­ron­ments includ­ing Libya, South Sudan, Soma­lia, and Kenya. She co-chairs the Glob­al Pro­tec­tion Clus­ter Anti-Traf­fick­ing Task Team

Mgr. Robert VITILLO, Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al, Inter­na­tion­al Catholic Migra­tion Com­mis­sion — Assess­ing the sit­u­a­tion and mak­ing pro­pos­als on behalf of ICMC, an world­wide orga­ni­za­tion whose con­stituents are the nation­al con­fer­ences of Catholic Bishops

Stéphane JAQUEMET, ICMC Direc­tor of Pol­i­cy, Head Civ­il Soci­ety Coor­di­nat­ing Office, Glob­al Forum on Migra­tion & Devel­op­ment (GFMD). — Assess­ing the sit­u­a­tion and mak­ing pro­pos­als from the point of view of Civ­il Society

Father Mussie ZERAI, Roman Catholic priest known for his work with migrants cross­ing the Mediter­ranean Sea from North Africa to Europe dur­ing the Euro­pean migrant crisis

RELIGION AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Reli­gions take an impor­tant role in denounc­ing mod­ern slav­ery, in pro­tect­ing, res­cu­ing and reha­bil­i­tat­ing vic­tims of human traf­fick­ing. Reli­gious Lead­ers and reli­gious con­gre­ga­tions take a large part in the fight against mod­ern slavery.

This webi­nar will present:

• the “Pas­toral Ori­en­ta­tions on Human Traf­fick­ing” pro­posed by Pope Fran­cis and The Migrants & Refugees Sec­tion of the Vat­i­can after a con­sul­ta­tion with church lead­ers, aca­d­e­mics and prac­ti­tion­ers and part­ner orga­ni­za­tions work­ing in this field
• the assess­ment of the present sit­u­a­tion and pro­pos­als of rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Chris­t­ian, Jew­ish and Mus­lim faiths in order to pro­mote action at the inter­na­tion­al, region­al and nation­al levels

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

Speak­ers:

Sis­ter Mir­jam BEIKE, U.N. RGS, Mod­er­a­tor, 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 will present the “Pas­toral Ori­en­ta­tions on Human Trafficking”

H.E. Car­di­nal Dieudon­né NZAPALAINGA and Imam Abde­louaye OUASSELEGUE, bear­ing wit­ness and tak­ing action to avoid instru­men­tal­i­sa­tion of reli­gion by war­lords and to pro­mote rec­on­cil­i­a­tion in the Cen­tral African Repub­lic (RCA)

Dr. Reda BENKIRANE, soci­ol­o­gist, doc­tor in phi­los­o­phy, is an inter­na­tion­al con­sul­tant in Gene­va who lives between Switzer­land and Moroc­co. Author of books on Com­plex­i­ty, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and inter­cul­tur­al issues, he is the founder and edi­tor of the knowl­edge por­tal archipress.org and the research work­shop Iqbal

Rab­bi François GARAÏ, GIL, Pres­i­dent, Gene­va Spir­i­tu­al Appeal

Prof. Azza KARAM, Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al, Reli­gions for Peace

SEXUAL SLAVERY — TESTIMONY AND DEFENDING VICTIMS — MIDDLE EASTERN AND NIGERIAN WOMEN ENSLAVED

For two years, Marie, a 38-year-old Iraqi woman, was a sex slave and ser­vant of sol­diers. Sold and resold, defiled, tor­tured, raped by mon­sters from Iraq to Syr­ia, she changed mas­ters more than twelve times. The “Whore of the Caliphate” is the heart­break­ing sto­ry of a woman who wants to live. Who tries to escape, who fights, who resists and refus­es to be bro­ken. Marie died twice: when she was torn away from her fam­i­ly and when she returned to them. Today, she wants to for­get, to rebuild this bruised body. After the hor­ror, hope. 

The book “La Putain du Cal­i­fat” (The Whore of the Caliphate) which tells the ter­ri­ble sto­ry of Marie, writ­ten by Sara Daniel and Benoît Kanabus, was pub­lished by Gras­set & Fasquelle in Jan­u­ary 2021.

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

Speak­ers:

Alain Wern­er, Swiss lawyer and human rights defend­er, spe­cial­izes in the defense of vic­tims of armed conflict

Sara Daniel, jour­nal­ist for the Nou­v­el Obser­va­teur, great reporter and spe­cial­ist of the Mid­dle East. Author, with Benoît Kanabus, of La Putain du Cal­i­fat (pub­lished by Gras­set 2020

Benoît Kanabus, Author, with Sara Daniel, of La Putain du Cal­i­fat (ed. Gras­set 2020)

Sr. Patri­cia Ebeg­bulem, Respon­si­ble of a Shel­ter for Returned Vic­tims of Traf­fick­ing, the Bakhi­ta House in Lagos (Nige­ria). Pope Bene­dict XVI hon­oured Patri­cia Ebeg­bulem SSL in 2012 with the high­est Papal hon­our for Con­se­crat­ed per­sons, the Pro Eccle­sia et Pon­tif­ice medal

Ben­jamin Greer,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)

WOMEN AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING

On Inter­na­tion­al Women’s Day 2022, this webi­nar brings togeth­er a pan­el of women who are mak­ing a strong com­mit­ment against human traf­fick­ing. They share their expe­ri­ences in encour­ag­ing local com­mu­ni­ties and the inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty to bet­ter defend vic­tims of human trafficking.

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

Speak­ers:

Sr. Imel­da Poole,Pres­i­dent of RENATE Net­work, Reli­gious in Europe Net­work­ing Against Traf­fick­ing and Exploita­tion. Sr. Imel­da Poole IBVM (Lore­to) is a mem­ber of the Eng­lish Province, who has been on mis­sion in Alba­nia for the last eleven years. Reli­gious in Europe Net­work­ing Against Traf­fick­ing and Exploita­tion (RENATE) is a Euro­pean net­work of reli­gious and co-work­ers who work in all fields against traf­fick­ing in 31 coun­tries of Europe

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

Sr. Patri­cia Ebeg­bulem, Respon­si­ble of a Shel­ter for Returned Vic­tims of Traf­fick­ing, the Bakhi­ta House in Lagos (Nige­ria). Pope Bene­dict XVI hon­oured Patri­cia Ebeg­bulem SSL in 2012 with the high­est Papal hon­our for Con­se­crat­ed per­sons, the Pro Eccle­sia et Pon­tif­ice medal

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

In order to end human traf­fick­ing, it is essen­tial that we tar­get demand, rather than focus­ing pure­ly on sup­ply-side mea­sures. Whilst the sta­tus quo is to employ sup­ply-side mea­sures, these can only ever be reac­tive. Where­as, demand-side mea­sures are proac­tive in the pre­ven­tion of human traf­fick­ing, as demand is a root cause of traf­fick­ing and there­fore must be pur­sued in the fight to end this affront to human rights and dignity

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

Speak­ers:

Inge Bell, A Ger­man human rights activist, entre­pre­neur and chair­per­son of the women’s rights orga­ni­za­tion Terre des Femmes and the Bavar­i­an branch of the aid orga­ni­za­tion Sol­wo­di. She is an advo­cate for the reform of pros­ti­tu­tion laws in Ger­many, a move towards the Nordic mod­el, which focus­es on demand, by penal­iz­ing the buy­ers of sex­u­al slavery

Bri­an Iselin, Mod­er­a­tor, Founder of Gene­va-based slave­free­trade, 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

Valiant Richey, 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

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:

Alain Wern­er, 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

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

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)

COUNTERING THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO RECRUIT AND CONTROL VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING, ESPECIALLY RELATED TO THE SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN

“It’s also impor­tant to address and to dis­man­tle the infra­struc­ture that is facil­i­tat­ing all of this. The online plat­forms, the sex­u­al ser­vice web­sites, the pornog­ra­phy plat­forms where peo­ple are traf­ficked for forced pornog­ra­phy or oth­er loca­tions need to be dis­man­tled or pre­ven­tion mea­sures need to be applied to make sure that these plat­forms are not facil­i­tat­ing and mak­ing this whole exploita­tive indus­try much more effi­cient. It’s like oper­at­ing a book­store ver­sus oper­at­ing Ama­zon. The dif­fer­ence between the speed and effi­cien­cy and scale of the online mar­ket is so tremen­dous that if you don’t dis­man­tle that infra­struc­ture, you’re going to have a very, very hard time com­bat­ing it. I think there’s a num­ber of things I could say in this, but that would be the num­ber one thing that I think needs to go along­side of the poli­cies around buy­ing and sell­ing of sex or around traf­fick­ers and how they should be pun­ished.” Valiant Richey, OSCE Spe­cial Rep­re­sen­ta­tive and Co-ordi­na­tor for Com­bat­ing Traf­fick­ing in Human Beings” — 14 June 2022

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

Speak­ers:

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

Prof. Pao­lo Cam­pana, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge and Oxford, Unit­ed King­dom, author of the GRETA report “Online and tech­nol­o­gy-facil­i­tat­ed traf­fick­ing in human beings” of April 2022

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND LAUDATO SI’:
TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM TO ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY,
TO PREVENT AND ERADICATE HUMAN TRAFFICKING

What we need to do is to build a new eco­nom­ic and social mod­el where the human per­son is at the cen­ter: Pope Fran­cis calls this an “econ­o­my of care”.

What is this econ­o­my of care required by Pope Fran­cis, and how we could achieve it from a Chris­t­ian perspective?

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

Speak­ers:

Rev. Fr. Fabio Bag­gio, Under-Sec­re­tary of the Refugees and Migrants Sec­tion of the Dicas­t­ery for the Pro­mo­tion of Inte­gral Human Devel­op­ment since 1 Jan­u­ary 2017

Andrea March­esani, Coor­di­na­tor of the Research Office of the Migrants and Refugees Sec­tion. He also serves as Exter­nal Advi­sor for the For­eign Affairs Depart­ment of the Order of Mal­ta regard­ing migra­tion, human traf­fick­ing, issues in the dig­i­tal world, and human rights

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MIGRATION: CURRENT ASSESSMENT OF THE PERILOUS JOURNEY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

A pan­el of experts will give their analy­sis on the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion of the very impor­tant migra­to­ry flow through the Mediter­ranean Sea, a night­mare for migrants, for­got­ten by our media and our politicians

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

Speak­ers:

Dr. Car­o­line Abu Sa’­Da, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of SOS Méditer­ranée Switzer­land and mem­ber of the founders of the inter­na­tion­al enti­ty. Pre­vi­ous­ly Direc­tor of the Research Unit of MSF Switzer­land, she worked in the field for Oxfam GB, the Unit­ed Nations and MSF Switzer­land. Head of mis­sion in Iraq and Syr­ia for MSF. Author of sev­er­al books and research stud­ies. She taught polit­i­cal sci­ence at New York Uni­ver­si­ty, Paris and at Sci­ences Po, Lille

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

Father Mussie Zerai, Roman Catholic priest known for his work with migrants cross­ing the Mediter­ranean Sea from Africa to Europe dur­ing the Euro­pean migrant cri­sis. Head of the refugee rights orga­ni­za­tion Habeshia. Nobel Peace Prize nom­i­nee in 2015

FORCED LABOR AND TRANSPARENCY OF SUPPLY CHAINS: TOWARDS PRESCRIPTIVE OR LEGAL MANDATORY APPROACHES?

The imper­a­tive need for changes in inter­na­tion­al and nation­al legal frame­works to address mod­ern slav­ery in sup­ply chains from a vol­un­tary to pre­scrip­tive or manda­to­ry approach is pre­sent­ed in a recent expert report to the New Zealand gov­ern­ment, sup­port­ed by Dame Sara Thorn­ton DPE QBM, UK’s inde­pen­dent Anti-Slav­ery Com­mis­sion­er. You can down­load this report HERE.

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

Speak­ers:

Pro­fes­sor Dame Sara Thorn­ton DPE QBM, (Author of the Report Intro­duc­tion “AN OPPORTUNITY FOR IMPACT”), UK’s Inde­pen­dent Anti-Slav­ery Com­mis­sion­er from May 2019 until April 2022 in suc­ces­sion to Kevin Hyland. Pro­fes­sor of Prac­tice In Mod­ern Slav­ery Pol­i­cy, The Rights Lab, Uni­ver­si­ty Of Not­ting­ham. Retired British police offi­cer who was the first Chair of the Nation­al Police Chiefs’ Coun­cil (NPCC) and the for­mer Chief Con­sta­ble of Thames Val­ley Police and Vice-Pres­i­dent of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Chief Police Offi­cers (ACPO)

Rebekah Arm­strong, (Report author), human rights prac­ti­tion­er with 14 years’ expe­ri­ence spe­cial­is­ing in mod­ern slav­ery, human rights and human­i­tar­i­an law. She is the Direc­tor of Busi­ness and Human Rights Con­sul­tants and Head of Advo­ca­cy and Jus­tice at World Vision. Rebekah is Chair of the New Zealand Human Traf­fick­ing Research Coali­tion, respon­si­ble for pub­lish­ing the first research on work­er exploita­tion in New Zealand. She is an advi­so­ry mem­ber for the New Zealand Cen­tre for Research on Mod­ern Slav­ery and a mem­ber of the Mod­ern Slav­ery Lead­er­ship Advi­so­ry Group to the New Zealand Government

Pro­fes­sor Natalia Szablews­ka, (Report author), lawyer and social sci­en­tist with 20 years’ expe­ri­ence span­ning the pub­lic sec­tor, gov­ern­men­tal and non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tions, and acad­e­mia in five coun­tries. She is cur­rent­ly Pro­fes­sor in Law and Soci­ety at The Open Uni­ver­si­ty (Unit­ed Kingdom/UK) and holds fur­ther aca­d­e­m­ic affil­i­a­tions in New Zealand, Aus­tralia and Cam­bo­dia. Natalia spe­cialis­es in pub­lic inter­na­tion­al law and (inter­na­tion­al) human rights law, with a par­tic­u­lar focus on cor­po­rate-relat­ed human rights respon­si­bil­i­ties. She is a Chair of Aus­tralian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR)’s Busi­ness and Human Rights Com­mit­tee and a mem­ber of the Mod­ern Slav­ery Lead­er­ship Advi­so­ry Group to the New Zealand Government

ANTHROPOLOGY — FABRICE HADJADJ — VIRTUAL AND REAL WORLDS: HOW TO INHABIT THE DEVASTATED EARTH?

Fab­rice Had­jadj, Direc­tor of the Euro­pean Insti­tute of Anthro­po­log­i­cal Stud­ies in Fri­bourg (Switzer­land) presents the dan­gers of metavers and the con­di­tions of edu­ca­tion to give back to young peo­ple the pos­si­bil­i­ty to dream and build a future of com­mon good — How to built a bet­ter word?

OPENING REMARKS & INTERVIEWER: 

Pro­fes­sor Élis­a­beth Par­men­tier, Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of The­ol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Geneva

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

Speak­ers:

Fab­rice Had­jadj, Direc­tor of the Euro­pean Insti­tute of Anthro­po­log­i­cal Stud­ies in Fri­bourg (Switzer­land). French writer, philoso­pher and dra­maturge. He grad­u­at­ed from the Insti­tute of Polit­i­cal Stud­ies in Paris and holds an agré­ga­tion in phi­los­o­phy. He is best known by crit­ics for his essays on the issues of sal­va­tion, tech­nol­o­gy and the body. His pas­sion for the­ater has led him to com­pose plays, while his strong taste for the visu­al arts has result­ed in the writ­ing of three books on art. His prac­tice of music has also led him to com­pose sev­er­al albums

FROM MOTIVATION TO VOCATION: BRIAN ISELIN’S JOURNEY AGAINST SLAVERY

Tes­ti­mo­ny and expe­ri­ence of 30 years of strug­gle against HT with Bri­an Iselin — Founder of Iselin Human Rights and Slavefreetrade

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

Speak­ers:

Bri­an Iselin, for­mer Aus­tralian sol­dier and fed­er­al agent, human right activist against mod­ern slav­ery, Founder of Slave Free Trade and Iselin Human Rights, 30 years of inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ence on all the var­i­ous fronts of human trafficking

LIVE BROADCAST — SIDE EVENT AT UN GENEVA — HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN ARMED CONFLICTS AND POST-CONFLICT SITUATIONS

Pre­vent­ing con­di­tions of traf­fick­ing of human beings in armed con­flicts and sup­port­ing the vic­tims is vital

CO-ORGANIZERS: Car­i­tas Inter­na­tion­alis, Sec­ours Catholique — Car­i­tas France, Sov­er­eign Order of Malta

INTRODUCTION BY THE MODERATOR: Geneviève Colas, Sec­ours Catholique — Car­i­tas France and COATNET

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

Speak­ers:

Vir­ginia Gam­ba, Spe­cial Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Chil­dren and Armed Con­flict at the lev­el of Under-Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al­Glob­al pri­or­i­ties to com­bat traf­fick­ing in human beings aris­ing from armed conflict

Natalia Holyn­s­ka, Man­ag­er of counter-traf­fick­ing projects, Car­i­tas Ukraine and COATNET

Codru­ta Fer­nea, Pres­i­dent of Catholic Action Roma­nia, Romania
Pre­vent­ing human traf­fick­ing at the bor­ders and in neigh­bour­ing countries

Hes­sen Sayah, Head of Pro­tec­tion Depart­ment, Car­i­tas Lebanon and COATNET, Lebanon — Pre­vent­ing human traf­fick­ing at the bor­ders and in neigh­bour­ing countries

Mikiko Ōtani, Chair, Unit­ed Nations Com­mit­tee on the Rights of the Child, inter­na­tion­al human rights lawyer based in Tokyo where prac­tic­ing fam­i­ly law with focus on wom­en’s and chil­dren’s rights. Active in aca­d­e­m­ic, research and teach­ing works. Mem­ber of the Exec­u­tive Coun­cil of the Japan Chap­ter of the Asian Soci­ety of Inter­na­tion­al Law

THE NEEDS AND STORIES OF MALE SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE, EXPLOITATION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

The dif­fi­cult jour­ney of male sur­vivors: dis­cus­sion based on the book “The way of escape” and the tes­ti­mo­ny of its author Jef­frey Ten­nant a male sur­vivor of child sex traf­fick­ing, explain­ing his jour­ney by recount­ing his suf­fer­ing, his hope, and the need to find true com­pas­sion and under­stand­ing, empha­siz­ing the need for train­ing in order to avoid putting vic­tims in suc­ces­sive revictimizations

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

Speak­ers:

Ena Lucia Mari­a­ca Pacheco, Researcher and advo­cate for jus­tice, specif­i­cal­ly for boys and men who are sur­vivors of abuse, exploita­tion and human traf­fick­ing. Mem­ber of Glob­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Human Traf­fick­ing Schol­ars (GAHTS). Author of “The needs and sto­ries of male sur­vivors of child sex­u­al abuse, exploita­tion and human trafficking”

Jef­frey Ten­nant, Lived-Expert, Author, Sur­vivor of child sex traf­fick­ing. Career in aero­space and after retir­ing, he has made a sig­nif­i­cant change in his life by serv­ing oth­ers through min­istry and begin­ning a writ­ing career. The min­istry voca­tion came nat­u­ral­ly from vol­un­teer­ing through­out his life, but the writ­ing career was birthed from detail­ing the strug­gle to heal from the pain of trau­ma brought about by being sex traf­ficked. The desire to help oth­ers trav­el­ing the same road as he has, led to the writ­ing and pub­lish­ing of his first book, “The Way of Escape: The True Sto­ry of a Teenage Boy’s Mirac­u­lous Escape from Sex Traf­fick­ers and a Heal­ing Jour­ney of Recovery”

Dr. Glenn Miles, Inde­pen­dent Researcher, Train­er, Writer, Net­work­er. Senior Researcher with up! Inter­na­tion­al. For 25 years, he’s led INGOs and facil­i­tat­ed research lis­ten­ing to sur­vivors of sex­u­al exploita­tion, includ­ing men, women, boys, girls, and trans­gen­der peo­ple, as well as research with sex buy­ers. Glenn teach­es grad­u­ate and PhD can­di­dates, pro­vides super­vi­sion, and advis­es the But­ter­fly Lon­gi­tu­di­nal Research Project (Chab Dai) 

MALE SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: PRESENTATION OF ENA LUCIA MARIACA PACHECO’S RESEARCH

This explorato­ry research inter­viewed first-hand accounts of 40 male sur­vivors of child sex­u­al abuse and exploita­tion, and 30 field experts spe­cial­iz­ing in male child sex­u­al abuse and human traf­fick­ing. This study uncov­ers and iden­ti­fies the social inter­ac­tions that harm and aid male sur­vivor recov­ery and heal­ing. Dur­ing COVID, sui­cides of men went up 95%, an astound­ing number

This paper also exam­ines the roles played by female CSEA per­pe­tra­tors, includ­ing the char­ac­ter­is­tics of female abusers, traf­fick­ers, and buy­ers (exploiters and abusers)

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

Speak­ers:

Ena Lucia Mari­a­ca Pacheco, Researcher and advo­cate for jus­tice, specif­i­cal­ly for boys and men who are sur­vivors of abuse, exploita­tion and human traf­fick­ing. Mem­ber of Glob­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Human Traf­fick­ing Schol­ars (GAHTS). Author of “The needs and sto­ries of male sur­vivors of child sex­u­al abuse, exploita­tion and human trafficking”

John-Michael Lan­der, Sur­vivor of child sex­u­al abuse, cer­ti­fied Train­er and Life Coach for the Self-Talk Insti­tute, voice for the voice­less he is the founder of “An Athlete’s Silence”. As an ath­lete, he silent­ly endured sex­u­al abuse and traf­fick­ing from the adults entrust­ed with his train­ing while win­ning gold medals at the Nor­way and Dan­ish Cups. He broke his silence with the TedTalk, “An Athlete’s Silence” and devel­oped the Preda­to­ry Groom­ing Tri­fec­ta© and Preda­to­ry Inter­net Groom­ing© (PIG). He has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CBC news, and has been inter­viewed for TIME Mag­a­zine and for the George Clooney Pro­duc­tions Com­pa­ny. Board mem­ber of The Army of Sur­vivors, author of two nov­els depict­ing his sto­ry, “Sur­face Ten­sion” and “Cracked Surface”

Jef­frey Ten­nant, Lived-Expert, Author, Sur­vivor of child sex traf­fick­ing. Career in aero­space and after retir­ing, he has made a sig­nif­i­cant change in his life by serv­ing oth­ers through min­istry and begin­ning a writ­ing career. The min­istry voca­tion came nat­u­ral­ly from vol­un­teer­ing through­out his life, but the writ­ing career was birthed from detail­ing the strug­gle to heal from the pain of trau­ma brought about by being sex traf­ficked. The desire to help oth­ers trav­el­ing the same road as he has, led to the writ­ing and pub­lish­ing of his first book, “The Way of Escape: The True Sto­ry of a Teenage Boy’s Mirac­u­lous Escape from Sex Traf­fick­ers and a Heal­ing Jour­ney of Recovery”

Cran­ford Black­mon, Cran­ford is a sur­vivor of child sex­u­al abuse, pub­lic speak­er and founder of LaB­CaF — the FemVin­ci­ble pro­grams, teach­ing you to use what you already have to Fight, Sur­vive, and THRIVE

Mar­tin Pelders, Mar­tin is a sur­vivor of child sex­u­al abuse, author of “The Pump­kin Van” and pub­lic speak­er, founder of Matrix­Men, the first orga­ni­za­tion in South Africa to sup­port male sur­vivors of sex­u­al abuse, also rais­ing aware­ness about the threat to boys in the dig­i­tal space

NON-PUNISHMENT OF VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING:
ENHANCING PROTECTION OF VICTIMS 

SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA

It is cru­cial to estab­lish a com­pre­hen­sive frame­work that not only sup­ports vic­tims but also pre­vents their pun­ish­ment or crim­i­nal­iza­tion for the crimes they were forced to commit. 

This side event takes place inside the Palais des Nations at the UN in Geneva.

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

Speak­ers:

Geneviève Colas, Sec­ours Catholique — Car­i­tas France and COATNET

Vir­ginia Gam­ba de Pot­gi­eter, Spe­cial Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al for Chil­dren and Armed Conflict 

Patrick Eba, Deputy Direc­tor for Pro­tec­tion, UNHCR

Dr. Char­lie Lamen­to, Unit­ed Nations Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Glob­al Hope Net­work Inter­na­tion­al (GILLP) and for­mer prosecutor

Olivia Smith, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Caribbean Anti Human Traf­fick­ing Foundation

Andrea Salvoni, Unit­ed Nations Act­ing Coor­di­na­tor for Com­bat­ting Traf­fick­ing in Human Beings, OSCE 

Patrick Eba, Deputy Direc­tor for Pro­tec­tion, UNHCR

Ena Maria Lucia Pacheco and Sil­via De Rosa, INTERPOL Rep­re­sen­ta­tives

BEST PRACTICES IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION, HEALING, COLLABORATION, AND PROGRAMMES FOR MEN & BOYS

This ses­sion will high­light best prac­tices around the world with Ena Lucia Mari­a­ca Pacheco and with tes­ti­monies from sur­vivors who are now involved in the fight and train­ing against the abuse of male children

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

Speak­ers:

Ena Lucia Mari­a­ca Pacheco — Mod­er­a­tor, Researcher and advo­cate for jus­tice, specif­i­cal­ly for boys and men who are sur­vivors of abuse, exploita­tion and human traf­fick­ing. Mem­ber of Glob­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Human Traf­fick­ing Schol­ars (GAHTS). Author of “The needs and sto­ries of male sur­vivors of child sex­u­al abuse, exploita­tion and human trafficking”

Francesco Cecon, Head of the Glob­al Boys Ini­tia­tive at ECPAT Inter­na­tion­al and leads the pro­gramme design and imple­men­ta­tion with mem­bers and part­ners since May 2022. Pre­vi­ous­ly, he worked for sev­er­al years with Save the Chil­dren as a Child Pro­tec­tion Advi­sor across West Africa, Europe and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca in both devel­op­ment and human­i­tar­i­an con­texts, focus­ing on case man­age­ment ser­vices for child sur­vivors of sex­u­al vio­lence, exploita­tion and traf­fick­ing, along with child-cen­tred psy­choso­cial sup­port inter­ven­tions. Francesco holds a mas­ter’s degree from the Uni­ver­si­ty of War­wick and speaks Eng­lish, French, Span­ish and Italian

Per­ry Pow­er, Actor, Speak­er and entre­pre­neur, Per­ry Pow­er rais­es aware­ness of intra-famil­ial abuse and inspires sur­vivors to break their silence. Per­ry co-found­ed “We Res­cue Kids” (a U.S‑based char­i­ty giv­ing free men­tal health­care to child sur­vivors of sex­u­al abuse), is a trustee for “We-Togeth­er” (a UK-based char­i­ty build­ing a tool that allows vic­tims to self-report), and runs a self-pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny called “Pow­er­ful Books”, help­ing trau­ma sur­vivors to write and pub­lish their own book

Nathan Earl, Researcher, advo­cate and pub­lic health con­sul­tant with a pas­sion for co-build­ing resilient com­mu­ni­ties immune to exploita­tion. Under the giantslay­er. brand, Nathan lever­ages more than 20 years of lived and pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ence to help orga­ni­za­tions and com­mu­ni­ties pre­vent vio­lence against boys and men, as well as 2SLGBTQ+ young peo­ple. Mr. Earl’s research focus areas include drug-facil­i­tat­ed com­mer­cial sex­u­al exploita­tion, men­tal health chal­lenges expe­ri­enced by those impact­ed by human traf­fick­ing, and male vic­tim­iza­tion syn­dem­ic to sub­stance depen­den­cy, PTSD and HIV. In 2014, Mr. Earl oper­a­tional­ized one of the first out­reach and hous­ing pro­grams for male youth sur­vivors of human traf­fick­ing pre­sent­ing with sub­stance depen­den­cy. Nathan cur­rent­ly serves as a Con­sul­tant with Nation­al Youth Law Cen­ter, The Nation­al Cen­ter on Child Traf­fick­ing, U.S. Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices’ Equi­ty and Human Traf­fick­ing Tech­ni­cal Assis­tance Cen­ters, is the co-founder of the U.S. Coun­cil on Vio­lence against Men and Boys and is a Board Direc­tor at Love 146

RAISING AWARENESS ON CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY

Vic­tims of human traf­fick­ing often face mul­ti­ple forms of abuse, exploita­tion, and trau­ma. It is cru­cial to estab­lish a com­pre­hen­sive frame­work that not only sup­ports vic­tims but also pre­vents their pun­ish­ment or crim­i­nal­iza­tion for the crimes they were forced to com­mit. Twen­ty-three years after the Paler­mo Pro­to­col (Unit­ed Nations Pro­to­col to Pre­vent, Sup­press and Pun­ish Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons, espe­cial­ly Women, and Chil­dren), the scourge of human traf­fick­ing is far from being defeated

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

Speak­ers:

Dr. Berta Fer­nan­dez-Alfaro, IOM Chiel of Mis­sion. Coor­di­na­tion Ollice for Switzer­land and Liechtenstein

H.E. Cindy Dyer, Ambas­sador at large, Ofice to Mon­i­tor and Com­bat Trafick­ing in Per­sons — US. Depart­ment of State

Prof. Tomoya Oboka­ta, Spe­cial Rap­por­teur on Con­tem­po­rary Forms of Slav­ery. Human Rights Coun­cil, UN Geneva

Alice Eck­stein, Project Direc­tor of the FAST ini­tia­tive. For­mer Pro­gramme Man­ag­er for the Mod­ern Slav­ery Pro­gramme at Unit­ed Nations Uni­ver­si­ty Cen­tre for Pol­i­cy Research in New York

Orga­niz­ers:

Sov­er­eign Order of Malta

IOM Switzer­land

Cospon­sors:

U.S. Per­ma­nent Mis­sion to the Unit­ed Nations Office and oth­er Inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions in Geneva

Per­ma­nent Mis­sion of Colom­bia to the Unit­ed Nations Office and oth­er inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions in Geneva

Per­ma­nent Mis­sion of the Prin­ci­pal­i­ty of Liecht­en­stein to the Unit­ed Nations Office and oth­er inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions in Geneva

LES SOINS DES TROUBLES DU STRESS POST-TRAUMATIQUE POUR LES VICTIMES DE LA TRAITE DES ÊTRES HUMAINS — PTSD CARE FOR HT VICTIMS

Les impacts post-trau­ma­tiques peu­vent boule­vers­er à ce point le com­porte­ment d’une vic­time qu’elle se retrou­ve dans l’incapacité de témoign­er con­crète­ment sur son his­torique et les sévices vécus, dans une atti­tude objec­tive qui va con­tre son intérêt lors des pre­miers con­tacts avec les per­son­nes et autorités qui doivent qual­i­fi­er son statut juridique de vic­times de la traite. La rémis­sion et la diminu­tion de ces impacts est un proces­sus très long de soins dont la qual­ité est essen­tielle pour per­me­t­tre à terme une réin­ser­tion dans la société. Les clés de suc­cès de ce proces­sus sont impor­tantes à con­naître par toutes les par­ties en con­tact avec la vic­time pour éviter un proces­sus de retrau­ma­ti­sa­tions suc­ces­sives, de traiter la vic­time comme une crim­inelle, une per­son­ne ayant per­du son équili­bre dont les pro­pos sont peu cohérents et à la lim­ite du mensonge

INTRODUCTION & MODÉRATION : Pro­fesseur Michel Veuthey, Ambas­sadeur de l’Or­dre de Malte con­tre la traite de personnes

Inter­venants :

Joana Her­rmann, psy­cho­logue du refuge genevois du « Cœur des Grottes », spé­cial­isée en psychotraumatologie

Doc­toresse Sophie Durieux, Respon­s­able RSP HUG (RÉSEAU SANTÉ POUR TOUS)

Doc­teur Emmanuel Escard, Respon­s­able de l’Unité Inter­dis­ci­plinaire de Médecine et Préven­tion de la Vio­lence (UIMPV—HUG)

Co-organ­isa­teurs : Ordre de Malte, Foun­da­tion du Coeur des Grottes et asso­ci­a­tion Astrée, refuges pour vic­times de la traite à Genève et à Lausanne

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Human traf­fick­ing involves recruit­ing, trans­port­ing, trans­fer­ring, har­bor­ing, or receiv­ing peo­ple for the pur­pose of exploita­tion, whether through force, coer­cion, fraud, or some oth­er form of decep­tion. It is a form of mod­ern-day slav­ery, a scourge that affects every region of the world. Human Traf­fick­ing is a grave vio­la­tion of human rights, affect­ing more than 50 mil­lion indi­vid­u­als worldwide

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

Speak­ers:

Dr. Umesh Pal­wankar, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Gene­va Cen­tre for Human Rights Advance­ment and Glob­al Dia­logue, Intro­duc­tive Remarks

Mgr. Robert J. Vit­il­lo, Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, ICMC

Clau­dio Delfab­ro, Direc­tor of the Depart­ment of Inter­na­tion­al Refugee Law and Migra­tion Law, Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute of Human­i­tar­i­an Law (IHL)

Pao­la Fudakows­ka, Legal Con­sul­tant, TRIAL International

Alisa Gbior­czyk, Inter­na­tion­al Sur­vivors of Traf­fick­ing Advi­so­ry Coun­cil (ISTAC) Mem­ber, OSCE Office for Demo­c­ra­t­ic Insti­tu­tions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and CEO & Founder,
CYBER NITEWATCH

Ena Lucia Mari­a­ca Pacheco, Researcher and advo­cate for jus­tice, specif­i­cal­ly for boys and men who are sur­vivors of abuse, exploita­tion and human traf­fick­ing. Mem­ber of Glob­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Human Traf­fick­ing Schol­ars (GAHTS). Author of “The needs and sto­ries of male sur­vivors of child sex­u­al abuse, exploita­tion and human trafficking”

CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING POLICY, LEGISLATION, INVESTIGATION, AND VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MALE VICTIMS

This ses­sion will high­light chal­lenges in human traf­fick­ing pol­i­cy, leg­is­la­tion, inves­ti­ga­tion, and vic­tim sup­port ser­vices for male victims

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

Speak­ers:

Ena Lucia Mari­a­ca Pacheco, Researcher and advo­cate for jus­tice, specif­i­cal­ly for boys and men who are sur­vivors of abuse, exploita­tion and human traf­fick­ing. Mem­ber of Glob­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Human Traf­fick­ing Schol­ars (GAHTS). Author of “The needs and sto­ries of male sur­vivors of child sex­u­al abuse, exploita­tion and human trafficking”

Cris­t­ian Eduar­do, Co-founder of “Unit­ed Immi­grants of New York” and “Mujeres en Resisten­cia”, advo­cate, speak­er and edu­ca­tor for anti-traf­fick­ing ini­tia­tives. He is a sur­vivor of inter­na­tion­al and domes­tic sex and labor traf­fick­ing. Cris­t­ian Eduardo’s inspi­ra­tion for his social jus­tice work is to give insight that vic­tims always remain human beings. He a Lead Human Traf­fick­ing Con­sul­tant and Sur­vivor with Shobana Pow­ell Consulting

Hol­ly Wood, Researcher, edu­ca­tor, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and vol­un­teer lead. She holds a BA Hon­ours in Law from Car­leton Uni­ver­si­ty and a MA Legal Stud­ies The­sis sur­round­ing the top­ic of police respons­es to Sex Traf­fick­ing in Ontario Cana­da. She is the Vice Chair of the Ottawa Coali­tion to End Human Traf­fick­ing, and the Chair of the Coalition’s Advo­ca­cy Committee

SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — REFUGEE PROTECTION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING: AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR THE GLOBAL REFUGEE FORUM 2023

This event aims to shed light on the com­plex dynam­ics that refugees face when they become vul­ner­a­ble to human traf­fick­ing and calls for holis­tic, com­pre­hen­sive and rights-based respons­es. The Glob­al Refugee Forum 2023 pro­vides a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty for more sol­i­dar­i­ty shar­ing and enhanced access to pro­tec­tion and solu­tions for refugees who are vic­tims of traf­fick­ing or at risk of being trafficked

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

Geneviève Colas, Sec­ours Catholique France – Car­i­tas France, COATNET

Speak­ers:

H.E. Ambas­sador Jérôme Bon­na­font, Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of France to the UN and OIs

H.E. Ambas­sador Jürg Lauber, Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the UN and IOs, Switzerland

Prof. Siob­hán Mul­lal­ly, Spe­cial Rap­por­teur on Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons, espe­cial­ly women and children

Vin­cent Cochetel, UNHCR’s Spe­cial Envoy for the Cen­tral Mediter­ranean Situation

H.E. Anna Ekst­edt, Ambas­sador for com­bat­ing Traf­fikc­ing in Per­sons, Sweden

Yit­na Getachew, Head of the Pro­tec­tion Divi­sion, IOM

Belan­cille Muka­musi­gali, Head of Anti-traf­fick­ing and Migra­tion Sec­tor, Car­i­tas Rwanda

Tory Claw­son, Direc­tor, Migra­tion & Dis­place­ment Ini­tia­tive, Save the Children

Grainne O’Hara, Senior Human Rights Advis­er, UN OHCHR

Devota Nuwe, Head of Pro­grams, Refugee Law Project, Uganda

Francesca Piz­zutel­li, Deputy Direc­tor and Head of the Refugee and Migrant’s Rights Team, Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al — Inter­na­tion­al Secretariat

SIDE EVENT AT UN NEW YORK HEADQUARTERS — HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTATIVE STRATEGIES AND CARE OF VICTIMS

This event aims to fos­ter the exchange of prag­mat­ic and action­able solu­tions that can be read­i­ly imple­ment­ed to alle­vi­ate the suf­fer­ing of vic­tims and survivors 

The con­fer­ence was orga­nized by the Per­ma­nent Observ­er Mis­sion of the Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta to the Unit­ed Nations in New York in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Glob­al Strate­gic Oper­a­tives, and co-spon­sored by the Per­ma­nent Mis­sions of France, Mex­i­co, Liecht­en­stein, Mex­i­co, Nige­ria, the Philip­pines as well as FAST Ini­tia­tive (Finance Against Slav­ery and Trafficking)

OPENING REMARKS:
H.E. Dr. Paul Beres­ford-Hill, Per­ma­nent Observ­er of the Mis­sion Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta to the UN, New York

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Speak­ers:

H.E. Dr. Michel Veuthey, Ambas­sador to Mon­i­tor and Com­bat Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons, Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta, Gene­va, Switzerland

Mrs. Deb­o­rah O’Hara-Rusck­ows­ki, DM Spe­cial Advi­sor on Human Traf­fick­ing for the Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta to the UN, NY; Founder & Pres­i­dent, Glob­al Strate­gic Oper­a­tives, The O’Connell House

Kevin Hyland, OBE, San­ta Mar­ta Group, London

H.E. Mr. Anto­nio Manuel Revil­la Lag­dameo, Ambas­sador Extra­or­di­nary and Plenipo­ten­tiary and Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Repub­lic of the Philip­pines to the Unit­ed Nations

H.E. Mrs. Diar­ra Dime-Labille, Min­is­ter Coun­sel­lor, Per­ma­nent Mis­sion of France

Mr. Mauri­cio Reza Bautista, Attaché & Human Rights Expert, Per­ma­nent Mis­sion of Mexico

Hilary L. Chester, Ph.D., for­mer­ly with the US Con­fer­ence of Catholic Bish­ops (USCCB)

Ms. Alice Eck­stein, Project Direc­tor, Finance Against Slav­ery and Traf­fick­ing (FAST)

THE ESSENTIAL ACTION OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS IN CARING FOR VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND THE URGENT NEED TO SUPPORT THEM

The Sis­ters will present their work with vic­tims of traf­fick­ing (women, men, and chil­dren), the impor­tance of faith in giv­ing them the strength to act, and the fact that they are often the only ones to pro­tect and help vic­tims when the needs are over­whelm­ing and the appro­pri­ate resources (human and mate­r­i­al) are lacking

OPENING REMARKS:
H.E. Prof. Michel Veuthey, Ambas­sador to Mon­i­tor and Com­bat Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons, Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta, Gene­va, Switzerland

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Speak­ers:

Sis­ter Mir­jam Beike, Sis­ter of Our Lady of Char­i­ty of the Good Shep­herd, mem­ber from 2022 of the con­gre­ga­tion­al Chap­ter of the Order in Rome as Apos­tolic Coun­cilor for Ger­many & Alba­nia. 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

Sis­ter Fran­coise Jira­non­da, Sis­ter of St. Paul of Chartres, Lau­re­ate of the Sis­ters Anti-Traf­fick­ing Awards 2023. Sis­ter Fran­coise has opened two schools that pro­tect young Thai women vul­ner­a­ble to the sex trade. Sis­ter Fran­coise’s activ­i­ties aim to teach young women free voca­tion­al skills after high school and raise pub­lic awareness

Sis­ter Olivia Umoh, Catholic Sis­ter of the Daugh­ters of Char­i­ty of St. Vin­cent de Paul. She is the Direc­tor of Safe-Child Advo­ca­cy (SCA), a social ser­vice insti­tu­tion owned by the Catholic Arch­dio­cese of Kumasi which pro­vides mul­ti­fac­eted ser­vices to sup­port, rein­te­grate, and pro­mote acces­si­bil­i­ty for chil­dren in street sit­u­a­tions. She has over 36 years of expe­ri­ence in the Social Work practice

Sis­ter Patri­cia Ebeg­bulem, Sis­ter of Saint Louis, Win­ner of “Sis­ters Anti-Traf­fick­ing Awards 2023” in Lon­don. Respon­si­ble of a Shel­ter for Returned Vic­tims of Traf­fick­ing, the Bakhi­ta House in Lagos (Nige­ria). Pope Bene­dict XVI hon­oured Patri­cia Ebeg­bulem SSL in 2012 with the high­est Papal hon­our for Con­se­crat­ed per­sons, the Pro Eccle­sia et Pon­tif­ice medal

SIDE EVENT AT UNITED NATIONS GENEVA — MOBILIZING AGAINST TRAFFICKING, EXPLOITATION, AND MODERN SLAVERY IN SPORT

A CALL TO ACTION

Traf­fick­ing in human beings is present in all areas; its devel­op­ment in sports and around major sport­ing events remains unknown; it pos­es com­plex chal­lenges that will be dis­cussed dur­ing our event with a pan­el of experts and a vic­tim’s testimony

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

Speak­ers:

Prof. Parosha CHANDRAN, Mod­er­a­tor, Pro­fes­sor of Prac­tice in Mod­ern Slav­ery Law in The Dick­son Poon School of Law, King’s Col­lege London

Kevin HYLAND, OBE, Found­ing Mem­ber and Glob­al Strat­e­gy Direc­tor, San­ta Mar­ta Group (an anti-traf­fick­ing char­i­ty that aims to act as a cat­a­lyst for law enforce­ment)– 30 years expe­ri­ence in police inves­ti­ga­tion. From 2010, Head for the estab­lish­ment of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police Human Traf­fick­ing response in the UK (includ­ing the secu­ri­ty of the 2012 Olympics in Lon­don), 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)

John-Michael LANDER, Sur­vivor of child sex­u­al abuse, cer­ti­fied Train­er and Life Coach for the Self-Talk Insti­tute, voice for the voice­less he is the founder of “An Athlete’s Silence”. As an ath­lete, he silent­ly endured sex­u­al abuse and traf­fick­ing from the adults entrust­ed with his train­ing while win­ning gold medals at the Nor­way and Dan­ish Cups. He broke his silence with the TedTalk, “An Athlete’s Silence”

Kathryn LESLIE, Safe­guard­ing Senior Man­ag­er, FIFA

Amy Eun BYUL PARK, Cer­ti­fied Safe­guard­ing Offi­cer Integri­ty Offi­cer World Base­ball Soft­ball Con­fed­er­a­tion WBSC, Liai­son of Ath­letes’ Com­mis­sion, Diver­si­ty and Inclu­siv­i­ty Com­mis­sion, and Integri­ty Com­mis­sion. Ewha Wom­ans Uni­ver­si­ty, Korea. Inter­na­tion­al Olympic Academy. 

Leri­na BRIGHT, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor and Founder of MISSION 89

TESTIMONY OF THE 2024 WINNERS OF THE SISTERS ANTI-TRAFFICKING AWARDS: RELIGIOUS SISTERS’ BEST PRACTICES

In the 20th cen­tu­ry, many Catholic reli­gious orders estab­lished pro­grams to com­bat human traf­fick­ing. Guid­ed by a belief in uni­ver­sal human dig­ni­ty, sis­ters refuse to aban­don any­one in need of help. Arise, UISG and the Con­rad N. Hilton Foun­da­tion co-host the annu­al Sis­ters’ Anti-Traf­fick­ing Awards. The select­ed lau­re­ates were award­ed in Rome on 23 May 2024 in Rome

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

Speak­ers:

Sis­ters, Win­ners of the Anti-Traf­fick­ing Awards 2024, to be nom­i­nat­ed in Rome on 23 May 2024

Sr. Marie Claude Naddaf, Region­al Coor­di­na­tor of Wells of Hope, part of the Tal­itha Kum Net­work in the Mid­dle East. Upon assum­ing the role of Moth­er Supe­ri­or at the Good Shep­herd Con­vent in Dam­as­cus in 1994, 2 years lat­er, she estab­lished Syr­i­a’s inau­gur­al facil­i­ty for traf­fick­ing and domes­tic vio­lence sur­vivors, the “Oasis Shel­ter.” Its suc­cess led to the cre­ation of addi­tion­al shel­ters, backed by full gov­ern­ment sup­port. Sr. Marie Claude also intro­duced Syria’s first wom­en’s hot­line, offer­ing round-the-clock coun­sel­ing, legal assis­tance, and tem­po­rary shelter.Her advo­ca­cy led to a piv­otal shift in the gov­ern­men­t’s approach, from view­ing traf­fick­ing sur­vivors as crim­i­nals to rec­og­niz­ing them as vic­tims deserv­ing of support

Sr. Anne Vic­to­ry, Mem­ber of Humil­i­ty of Mary (HM) Lead­er­ship Team for a term of 4 years. Direc­tor of edu­ca­tion and founder Col­lab­o­ra­tive to End Human Traf­fick­ing. In 2007, Sr. Anne helped estab­lish the Col­lab­o­ra­tive to End Human Traf­fick­ing in Cleve­land, Ohio, focus­ing on edu­ca­tion, advo­ca­cy, and con­nect­ing ser­vices for traf­ficked indi­vid­u­als. She played a cru­cial role in devel­op­ing aware­ness pro­grams and action­able steps for the com­mu­ni­ty. As a found­ing mem­ber of US Catholic Sis­ters Against Human Traf­fick­ing (now Alliance to End Human Traf­fick­ing), Sr. Anne col­lab­o­rates with Tal­itha Kum to address traf­fick­ing’s root causes

Sr. Grasy Luisa Rodrigues, Found­ing mem­ber of the new­ly formed NGO “Muk­ti Kiran” near Goa in India (Ray of Lib­er­a­tion). The orga­ni­za­tion works with the Goa Police to pre­vent human traf­fick­ing. Sr. Gra­cy has been com­bat­ing human traf­fick­ing for 13 years across Maha­rash­tra, Gujarat, and Goa. She focus­es on pro­tect­ing mar­gin­al­ized groups, such as slum chil­dren and trans­gen­ders, by con­duct­ing aware­ness sessions

Sis­ters, Win­ners of the Anti-Traf­fick­ing Awards 2024, award­ed in Rome on 23 May 2024

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

EVENT AT THE UN IN GENEVA — 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, and 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. Aca­d­e­m­ic back­ground in Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tu­tions Man­age­ment and Devel­op­ment Eco­nom­ics. Work­ing with GSIF since in 2013, coor­di­nat­ing var­i­ous projects in Asia, Latin Amer­i­ca, and Sub-Saha­ran Africa