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Event Detail

Trafficking Conference: Washington, DC

Date: October 27, 2005

Venue Information

Event Details

Time: 5:45pm - 7:15pm
Sponsors: District of Columbia Bar: International Law Section / Immigration and Human Rights Committee
American University Washington College of Law: Women and International Law Program

Evening Panel Program:
Human Trafficking and State Responsibility: Perspectives on the Domestic and International Response

The panel will be discussing how U.S. and international state actors and agencies have responded or not responded to the global problem of human trafficking, and the role that state responsibility plays in combating trafficking. Topics will include the involvement of U.N. peacekeepers and agency contractors in trafficking, the effect that the U.S. sanctions regime and the prostitution "gag rule" have had on assisting trafficked persons, NATO and U.S. Department of Defense policies towards trafficking, and the intersection of U.S. labor migration policies, human rights, and human trafficking.

Speakers:
Janie Chuang, Practitioner-in-Residence, International Human Rights Law Clinic, AU Washington College of Law

Ann Jordan, Director of Anti-Trafficking Initiative, Global Rights

Sarah Mendelson, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Martina Vandenberg, Attorney, Jenner & Block

Moderator:
Alexandra Amiel, Co-Chair, DC Bar Subcommittee on Immigration and Human Rights

Location: American University Washington College of Law,
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW (Tenleytown-AU)
Cost: Free (No registration required)

For more information, email:
Monique Beadle
mbeadle@gmail.com