Criminal trafficking and slavery are growing national, regional, and global problems.These illicit activities damage and destroy millions of lives.Most victims are vulnerable women and children.Efforts to eradicate this blight appear to be losing ground to criminal elements.The latter profit from, and propagate the expansion of, what amounts to a globally dispersed system of exploitation with differential impacts — all pernicious and heinous — across nations and regions.These complex, webbed systems of global crime violate fundamental human rights; threaten the security and welfare of national and international civil societies; and undermine the authority and capacity of national governments to protect their populations.
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Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration
February 23-25, 2006
DAY 1: Thursday, February 23, 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: A Global Problem
Susan Forbes Martin, Executive Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
DAY 2: Friday, February 24
Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: A Regional Problem
Welcome Address Edward A. Kolodziej, Director, Center for Global Studies on behalf of cooperating units and sponsors of the conference
Europe West and East
Chair:
Kieran Donaghy, Director, European Union Center, UIUC
Presenter:
Mark J. Miller, Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware and Managing Editor, International Migration Review.
Presenter:
Louise Shelley, Director of the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, School of International Service, American University
Respondents:
Patrick Keenan, College of Law, Human Rights Clinic, UIUC
Carol Leff, Department of Political Science, UIUC
Chair:
Edward A. Kolodziej, Director, Center for Global Studies, UIUC
Northeast Asia
Presenter:
Donna. H. Hughes, Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair, Women's Studies Program, University of Rhode Island
Respondent:
Thomas Ginsburg, College of Law, UIUC
Chair:
Nils Jacobsen, Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, UIUC
Presenter:
David E. Guinn, Senior Research Scholar, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University
Respondent:
Werner Baer, Jorge Paulo Lemann Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, UIUC
Middle East & Africa
Chair:
Rebecca Ginsburg, Landscape Architecture, Center for African Studies, UIUC
Presenters:
Carol Allais, Department of Sociology, UNISA, Pretoria
Ricardo Wyngaard, South African Human Rights Lawyer
Respondent:
Merle Bowen, Department of Political Science, UIUC
Chair:
Hadi Esfahani, Department of Economics, UIUC
Presenter:
Mohamed Mattar, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Respondent:
Ken Cuno, Department of History and Director, Program in South Asian and Middle East Studies, UIUC
Chair:
Edward A. Kolodziej, Director, Center for Global Studies, UIUC
Presenter:
Patrick J. Keenan and Students, College of Law, Human Rights Clinic, UIUC
Respondent:
Elissa C. Steglich, Managing Attorney, Asylum , Trafficking and Children's Projects, Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center
Chair:
Gale Summerfield, Director, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, UIUC
Presenter:
Phil Williams, Department of Political Science, Pittsburg University
Respondent:
Paul Diehl, Henning Larsen Professor, Department of Political Science, UIUC
Approaching the Subject of Human Trafficking & Slavery
Presenters:
Mohamed Mattar, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Wendy Nelson-Kauffman, 2005 Connecticut History Teacher of the Year; Social Studies Teacher, Metropolitan Learning Center, Bloomfield, CT Magnet School
Andrew Benson Greene Jr., Coordinator, iEARN, Sierra Leone
(via video conference)
Locating Online & Library Teaching Resources
Presenter:
Lynne Rudasill, Center For Global Studies Librarian
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