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Sex Trafficking: Best Practices to Combat Demand
November 18, 2008: 2 – 4 pm (ET) ~ Online event. Registration required, and free of charge. ~ Sex trafficking is the largest subcategory of the modern day slave trade, and affects mostly women and girls. Every year, domestic and foreign-born victims are trafficked into local prostitution markets to be sold and exploited. The trafficking industry flourishes due to the persistent demand for commercial sex. Robust demand unleashes powerful market forces: the opportunity for profit ensures a steady supply of pimps and traffickers, and there is no domestic or foreign shortage of women and girls in desperate circumstances who are vulnerable to exploitation. In the United States, state governments and local authorities have implemented demand-reduction programs like "john schools" and public awareness campaigns illustrating strict penalties for sexual exploitation. In Sweden, a law was passed in 1999 criminalizing the purchase of a sexual service and was the first attempt by a country to address the buyer in the equation. What is being done to address the consumer side of this human rights issue? This online conference, cosponsored with the Initiative to Stop Human Trafficking at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, will focus on the best practices to combat the demand of sex trafficking. The discussion will be moderated by Michael Shively, Ph.D., Senior Associate of the Center on Crime, Drugs, and Justice at Abt Associates, Inc. The panel will feature: Donna Hughes, Ph.D., Professor and Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair, Women's Studies Program, University of Rhode Island - Sgt. Lavonnie Bickerstaff, Bureau of Police, Pittsburgh, PA
- Stephanie Davis, Policy Advisor on Women's Issues, Office of the Mayor, City of Atlanta, GA
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