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November 16, 2009, 10 am - 12 pm (EST)
~This webinar is hosted online. Registration required, and free of charge.~
Forced labor is one of the most difficult forms of human trafficking to identify and frequently the most elusive. Vulnerable populations are at risk for trafficking due to poverty, political unrest, forced migration, and corruption. Labor trafficking may include those forced into bonded labor, domestic servitude, sweatshops, agriculture, and other industries. Children are often recruited as beggars, camel jockeys, and domestic slaves.
Unprotected and often invisible, trafficked victims have limited means for escape and are often isolated as in the case of domestic servants in private homes. Individuals may subjugate workers through threats of violence and use of force. Many children and adults trafficked and forced into labor are sexually abused as well.
What is being done to address forced labor? This webinar, sponsored by the Initiative to Stop Human Trafficking and the Government Innovators Network, will focus on the best practices to combat one of the most invisible forms of human trafficking. The discussion will be moderated by E. Benjamin Skinner, Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery. The panel will feature:
- Karen McLaughlin - Director, Massachusetts Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking
- Anna Rodriguez - Founder and Director, Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking
- Roger Plant - Head, Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, International Labour Organisation
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