Cambridge University Amnesty International Panel Talk: 'Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery'

Cambridge University Amnesty International held a panel discussion followed by a Q&A on the subject of "Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery" which was held on Monday 28th April. - There are an estimated 27 million adults and 13 million children around the world today who are victims of human trafficking. - Modern Slavery is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world and there are thought to be more slaves in the world today than ever before in history. - Modern Slavery and human trafficking are international problems: during 2003, there were an estimated 4,000 victims of trafficking for prostitution in the UK (at any one time). For more info see: http://hopeforjustice.org.uk/the-issue, http://www.stopthetraffik.org/spot/statistics and http://www.redlightcampaign.org/ Speakers: Dr Carrie Pemberton Ford - Director of Trafficking Research Centre at Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking. Author of 'The Real Scandal of Sex Trafficking' and 'Beating the Traffic: Josephine Butler and Anglican Social Student Action for Refugees (STAR) on Prostitution Today’. Dr Sarah Steele - currently lectures at Queen Mary University of London, and formerly held a post lecturing for the Faculty of Law at Cambridge. Her research continues to explore the interaction between law, inequality, gender and health. Her work includes policy-relevant suggestions regarding new ways to formulate and speak about transnational issues such as human trafficking. She also works with CCARHT, researching and advising on matters related to human trafficking. Dr Liz Hales – institute of criminology, Cambridge. Co-author of Criminalization of Migrant Women. Dr Sasha Rakoff – Founder & CEO of the OBJECT pressure group (which changed 2 laws and has received extensive media coverage - http://www.object.org.uk/). Sasha will focus on the links between human trafficking, modern-day slavery and the sex trade & the particular experiences of trafficked women. Sarah Glover - Representative from BORN TO BE BEAUTIFUL, a Cambridge based charity which works on various projects around the world (including in Mumbai and Uganda) providing beauty therapy training and skills to victims of modern-day slavery & sex trafficking. http://www.borntobebeautiful.org/ David Nix, Head of Licensing at the Gangmaster’s Licensing Authority. The Gangmasters Licensing Authority is an executive non-departmental public body of the Home Office that protects workers from exploitation. Its licensing scheme regulates businesses who provide workers to agriculture, horticulture, forestry, shellfish gathering and food and drink processing and packaging.