Side Event at Unit­ed Nations Gene­va — Rais­ing Aware­ness on Con­tem­po­rary Slavery

20 SEPTEMBER 2023

Please access the sub­ti­tles by click­ing on “CC” in the Vimeo menu, avail­able in the fol­low­ing lan­guages: Eng­lish, French, Ger­man, Ital­ian, Russ­ian, Span­ish, Sim­pli­fied Chinese.

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.

You can access addi­tion­al doc­u­ments by click­ing on the fol­low­ing link:

Links to down­load full text inter­ven­tion in Eng­lish, French, Ger­man, Ital­ian, Russ­ian, Span­ish, Sim­pli­fied Chinese:

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

Speak­ers:
1.Dr. Berta Fer­nan­dez-Alfaro, IOM Chiel of Mis­sion. Coor­di­na­tion Ollice for Switzer­land and Liecht­en­stein
2.H.E. Cindy Dyer, Ambas­sador at large, Ofice to Mon­i­tor and Com­bat Trafick­ing in Per­sons — US. Depart­ment of State
3.Prof. Tomoya Oboka­ta, Spe­cial Rap­por­teur on Con­tem­po­rary Forms of Slav­ery. Human Rights Coun­cil, UN Gene­va
4.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

You can also access the video of this webi­nar avail­able with trans­la­tions in French, Ital­ian, Ger­man, Span­ish, Russ­ian and Chi­nese on the adlaudatosi web­site: adlaudatosi.org

The webi­na­rs are orga­nized by the Ambas­sador of the Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta to mon­i­tor and com­bat traf­fick­ing in per­sons with the Col­lège Uni­ver­si­taire Hen­ry-Dunant, in coop­er­a­tion with Sis­ter Mir­jam Beike, RGS, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive at the UN in Gene­va for the Sis­ters of Our Lady of Char­i­ty of the Good Shep­herd.
Please vis­it the fol­low­ing web­sites:
adlaudatosi.org/
nohumantrafficking.orderofmal…
cuhd.org
christusliberat.org/journal/