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Stop the Traffic II Conference Australia

Dates: October 23, 2003 to October 24, 2003

Event Details

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, in cooperation with Project Respect and RMIT University organized a two-day conference in Melbourne, Australia which focused on the trafficking of women for prostitution. In recent months, trafficking for prostitution has received much attention in Australia, with widespread media coverage and the first arrests made under the 1999 sexual slavery laws. This two day conference presented an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to address trafficking and to develop concrete steps to prevent trafficking, protect trafficked women and prosecute traffickers.

The speakers at the conference included: Paul Holmes – Consultant in Counter Trafficking and Law Enforcement Coordination – who is an internationally recognized expert in counter-trafficking, child prostitution, pedophilia, and the commercial sexual exploitation of persons; John Von Doussa who is the President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Australia; and Kathleen Maltzahn, founder of Project Respect – an Australian NGO which helps women trafficked in prostitution.

For more information on the conference, visit:
www.hreoc.gov.au/sex_discrimination/traffic.