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Combating Sex Trafficking: Prevention and Intervention in North Carolina and Worldwide

April 3–4, 2008

Every year, approximately 800,000 individuals are trafficked worldwide across international borders and exploited through forced labor and commercial sex work.  Nearly 20,000 of these victims enter the United States; an estimated 23 percent arrive in the southeast. All nations that serve as points of origin, passage, and destination must work collectively to raise awareness, nurture its victims, prosecute its offenders, and end human trafficking.

“Combating Sex Trafficking” will be an action-oriented conference, focusing on:

The conference will provide training to first responders, educators, medical staff, and the legal community, with the purpose of developing a working plan for North Carolina and beyond to help victims, raise global awareness, and put a stop to sex trafficking.

See the Combatting Sex Trafficking Conference Web site for complete information

Scholarships are available for students, For information, contact Pamella Lach at 919-962-8305

CEU’s will be awarded.

Partners

The conference is sponsored by the Carolina Women’s Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in partnership with

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PROGRAM

Thursday, April 3, 2008
7:45–8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30–8:45 Campus Welcome: Bernadette Gray-Little, Provost, UNC-Chapel Hill
8:45-9:00 Introduction of Keynote Speakers: Hodding Carter, University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill
9:00–9:45 Keynote: Survivor/Advocacy
  • Kika Cerpa with Dorchen Leidholdt
9:45-10:15

Keynote: Advocacy

  • Taina Ben-Aimé, Executive Director, Equality Now
10:15-10:45 Survivor/Advocacy Q&A
  • Moderator: Hodding Carter
10:45–11:00 break
11:00–12:10 Panel: Global Perspectives
  • Maya Ajmera, Founder, The Global Fund for Children
  • Margaret Samuels, Center for Child and Family Health
  • Vivita Rozenbergs, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Anti-Trafficking Focal Point for North America and the Caribbean
  • Moderator: Peter Coclanis, Associate Provost for International Affairs, UNC-Chapel Hill
12:10–12:20 pm break
12:20–2:00 Lunch and Keynote Speaker: Communities of Color
  • Dr. Esohe Aghatise, Founding Director, Associazione Iroko Onlus, Italy
  • Moderator: Tomeiko Ashford Carter, Associate Director, Institute for African-American Research
2:00–2:10 break
2:10–3:10 Featured Speaker: Shutting Down Demand
  • Dorchen Leidholdt, Director, Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services
  • Moderator: Senator Ellie Kinnaird, NC General Assembly
3:10–3:20 break
3:20–4:20 Featured Speaker: Travel and Tourism
  • Cynthia Messer, Associate Extension Professor, University of Minnesota Tourism Center
  • Moderator: Laura Paolicelli, Executive Director, Orange County Visitors Bureau
4:30–5:40 Panel: Media and Internet Responsibility
  • Carol Smolenski, Executive Director, ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes)
  • Sherry Ricchiardi, Professor at the Indiana University School of Journalism and Senior Writer for the American Journalism Review
  • Linda Criddle, LOOKBOTHWAYS Online Safety Consulting
  • Moderator: Frank Stasio, Host of The State of Things, WUNC Radio
5:40

Reception and Poster Sessions/Photo Exhibits

  • Featuring The Devoted, a women’s collective tribal dance troupe
6:30–8:30

Dinner and Reading of “Body and Sold” by Deborah Lake Fortson

  • Performed by Interactive Theatre Carolina under the direction of Ben Saypol

Friday, April 4, 2008
8:00–8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30–9:10

Featured Speaker: Legal Research

  • Vanessa Munro, Professor, University of Nottingham School of Law
  • Moderator: Helen Grant, Professor of Law, Elon University School of Law
9:10–9:30 break
9:30–11:15

Concurrent Sessions: Prevention

  • Session 1: Legal Advocacy
    • Gunilla S. Eckburg, Co-Executive Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International
    • Speaker to be announced
    • Moderator: Sally Greene, Chapel Hill Town Council
  • Session 2: Corporate Best Practices
    • Amy O’Neill Richard, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
    • Branka Minic, Director for Global Corporate Affairs and Workforce Development, Manpower Inc.
    • Moderator: Ben Mauk, Senior Coordinator, UNC Office of Economic and Business Development
  • Session 3: Government Responses
    • Larry Sachs, Director of Grants Management, Chicago Police Department
    • Stephanie Davis, Policy Advisor on Women’s Issues, Office of the Mayor, Atlanta, GA
    • Bridget Maher, Program Specialist, Trafficking in Persons Program, US Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families
    • Moderator: to be announced
11:15–11:30 break
11:30–12:30 pm Panel: Child Exploitation
  • Col. Sharon Cooper, Physician, Fort Bragg
  • Sarah Wood, Detective Constable, Heathrow Intelligence Unit
  • Moderators: Sharon Lawrence, Actress; and Robert Murphy, Director, Center for Child and Family Health
12:30–12:50 break
12:50–2:00 Networking Boxed Lunch
  • Featuring Sharon Lawrence, “On Being an Activist Actor”
2:10–3:30 Concurrent Working Groups: Developing Action for North Carolina
  • Group 1: Law Enforcement and Legal Professions
    • Facilitators: Kayley Tabor, Managing Assistant DA, Chatham County; and Sabrina Garcia, Town of Chapel Hill Police Department
  • Group 2: First Responders, Health Professionals, and Victims Services
    • Facilitators: Diane Kjervik, Chair, Health Care Environments Division, UNC School of Nursing; ACF/DHHS Representative
  • Group 3: Educators and Students (Campus Efforts)
    • Facilitators: Kris Macomber, PhD candidate, Sociology, NC State University; Katia Dantas, Rotary World Peace Fellow, Duke Center for International Development; and Shana Judge, JD, MA, PhD candidate, Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • Group 4: Private Sector and Media
    • Facilitators: Jim Johnson, Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School; and Sherry Ricchiardi
  • Group 5: Non-Profit Sector and Faith-Based Groups
    • Facilitators: Linda Smith, Shared Hope International; and Mark Kadel, North Carolina Affiliate Director, World Relief and RIPPLE member
3:40–4:10 Wrap Up: Dorchen Leidholdt, Director, Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services
4:10–4:30 Evaluations and Thank-you

 

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Registration

Registration is closed.

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Location and Lodging

The conference will be held at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. The Friday Center is located approximately three miles east of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, just off Highway 54 East (Raleigh Road). The Center is a short distance from Interstate 40 (from Raleigh, I-40 exit 273A; from Greensboro, I-40 exit 273). See Directions.

A block of rooms has been reserved at two hotels: 

Hampton Inn and Suites, $89 plus 12.75 percent tax for standard double or king. Call 919-403-8700 before March 5 to make your own reservation, using the group code SET. Located at 6121 Farrington Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, about two miles from the Friday Center, the hotel offers free continental breakfast and van transportation from the Friday Center.

Marriott Courtyard Chapel Hill, $139 plus 11.75% tax for a single or double. Call 919-883-0700 before March 12 to make your reservation and identify the reservation block as Sexual Trafficking. The hotel is located off Friday Center Drive at 100 Marriott Way, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, within walking distance of the Friday Center. The hotel restaurant is open for breakfast and dinner.

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For More Information

See the Combatting Sex Trafficking Conference Web site

About registration for the program, contact:

Darline Millett
Professional Development and Enrichment Programs
The Friday Center
800-845-8640 or 919-962-2643
e-mail dmillett@email.unc.edu

About the content of the program, contact:

Pam Lach, Conference Coordinator
919-962-8305
e-mail plach@email.unc.edu

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