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Student Group Hosts Human Trafficking
Presentation on February 16
Posted February 3, 2010
On Tuesday, February 16, 7-9 pm, at UM School of Law's
Castles Center, the students of the Christian Legal Society
will sponsor a panel discussion entitled, “Slavery:
Here and Now.” Four advocates with extensive international,
national and regional experience of modern-day slavery
will share their research and on-the-ground work. Audience
members will be given an opportunity to respond and ask questions
of the panelists. Admission is free.
Fulbright scholar and attorney Kate Kerr has witnessed slavery
in India and is now continuing to fight against human trafficking
as a Program Director of Free House, a nonprofit shelter
home for survivors of trafficking in San Francisco.
Teresa Sobieszczyk is an Associate Professor at The University
of Montana’s Department of Sociology and a member of
the steering committee for the Women’s and Gender Studies
Program. She has researched gender and labor migration issues
in Southeast Asia since 1996 and has consulted with law firms
dealing with trafficking from Thailand to the United States.
Mike Hogan will represent the International Justice Mission,
a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of
slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression.
Cynthia Wolken, an attorney and Director of the Montana
Human Rights Network, will speak of her instrumental role
in the passage of a Montana state anti-trafficking law, passed
by the legislature in 2007.
While many of the world’s 27 million slaves are found
in other countries of the world, approximately 200,000 people
living in the United States are in some form of slavery,
either prostitution or labor. This program focuses on
international, national and regional issues of slavery and
trafficking.
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