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TRAFFICKED

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The Students Stopping the Trafficking of People (SSTOP) and Georgetown University will host a conference at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

This year’s conference will take a specific look at the demand side of human trafficking whether that be demand for sex, labor, marriage, or soldiers.  The conference will focus on global events, conflict zones, and organized crime, and how these factors create a marker for humans.

Conference Agenda

Kathleen Hunt
Chair of the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict Steering Committee and the Representative of CARE International at the United Nations

Manuel Fernando Garcia
Coordinator of the Section against the Trafficking of Persons at the Organization of American States

Wendy Young
UNHCR Washington DC Office

Mohamed Y. Mattar
John Hopkins University Protection Project

Louise Shelley
Professor in the Department of Justice, Law, and Society and the School of International Service at American University and founder and Director of the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center

Kay Chernush
 United States Trafficking In Persons Report 2005 Official Photographer

Janie Chuang
Practitioner-in-residence in the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University and participant in the drafting of the UN Trafficking Protocol to the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime

Donna Hughes
 Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair of Women’s Studies at the University of Rhode Island

Susan Martin
 Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University

The conference is free of charge, and all meals and lodging will be covered.

To RSVP for the conference, email: sstopconference2006@gmail.com with the following information:
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Conference Flyer