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University of Washington Women’s Center, University of Washington School of Law & Seattle University School of Law present an international conference to examine the root causes of human trafficking and develop strategies to work towards eradicating the trade.

Human Trafficking in an Era of Globalization: Forced Labor, Involuntary Servitude, and Corporate & Civic Responsibility

January 11 & 12, 2013
University of Washington Husky Union Building (HUB)

8.75 CLE Credits (including 1.50 Ethics CLE Credits) are approved.

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Agenda

Speaker Bios

Friday, January 11

Introduction

• Conference Offers a Fresh Look at Human Trafficking and Its Root Causes – UW Today Article
• The Road To H.B. 1175: Making Human Trafficking a Crime in The State of Washington, My Story, 9 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 549 (2001), available with permission of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice.
  Former Representative Velma Veloria, Washington State Representative 1993-2004

Keynote Address: Keynote Address: Situating Human Trafficking in the Philippines: Global, National and Personal Contexts
Lila Shahani, Assistant Secretary & Head of Communications
Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cabinet Cluster (HDPRC), Philippines

• The Status of Women in the Philippines: a 50-year Retrospective, GMA Network News Special Report, October 3, 2012, by Lila Shahani

Forced Migration & Labor Rights

• Fact Sheet: Labor Trafficking
• The Push & Pull of Globalization: How the Global Economy Makes Migrant Workers Vulnerable to Exploitation
  Neha Misra, Senior Specialist Migration & Human Trafficking, AFL-CIO Solidarity Center
• Forced Labor Costs Considerable:
  A View from the ILO
• Feminization of Migration and Labor Trafficking
• Women: Invisible in Labor and Labor Trafficking
• The TVPA Decade: Progress and Promise
  Remarks of Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis as Prepared for Delivery
  at the 2010 DOJ National Conference on Human Trafficking
• Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Labor Announce Selection of Anti-Trafficking Coordination Teams
• Department of Labor Secretary Solis on Forced Labor Statistics
• Department of Labor Reports on International Child Labor and Forced Labor
• Department of Labor’s Annual Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor
• Shining a Light on Child Labor and Forced Labor Worldwide
  by Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
• Washington Farming in an Era of Globalization-The Story of One Farmer
  Larry Jensen, Board Member, Skagit County Farm Bureau
• The Federal H-2A Guest-Worker Program and Agricultural Labor Supply
  Mike Gempler, WA Growers League
• USCIS: H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers
• Washington Agricultural Employment Statistics: Employment, Earnings, and H-2A Certifications
• Information Pamphlet for U.S. Visa Applicants Discussing Legal Rights and Protections for Certain Employment or Education-based Nonimmigrants
• Migrant Farm Workers, Labor Shortage, and Human Trafficking
  Farmworker Justice Newsletter

 

Tools of Social Change

• Legislative Tools of Social Change
  Washington State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (36th Legislative District)
• Summary of Landmark Washington State Legislative Accomplishments to Prevent Human Trafficking
  and Sexual Exploitation of Minors
  Washington State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (36th Legislative District)
• Tim Galante, Director, Justice and Public Safety Services, Microsoft and Assistant Chief Dick Reed , Commander, Field Support Bureau, Seattle Police Department
  City of Seattle/Microsoft-Trafficking Technology Solutions Project: Addressing Human Trafficking in Seattle WA and Portland OR
  City of Seattle/Microsoft-Trafficking Technology Solutions Project: Human Trafficking Prevention Initiative-Seattle PD and Portland PD
  

 

International Trade Agreements

• International Trade Frameworks Overview
  Don S. Zang, Associate Professor of Law, UW School of Law
• Impact of Free Trade Agreements in Washington State
  Lynne Dodson, Washington Fair Trade Coalition
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Regional Trade Agreement
  Citizens Trade Campaign Factsheet
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Regional Trade Agreement
  Washington Council on Interantional Trade Factsheet
• Corporations and the TPP
  Citizens Trade Campaign Factsheet
• Towards Social and Environmental Justice in Trade Policy: The Proposed 21st Century Trade and Market Access Act
• Trade Agreements and
  State Sovereignty
  Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Factsheet

 

Human Rights Panel

• Trafficking of Persons & Human Rights: Rethinking Our Strategies
  Prof. Carole Petersen, Director, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Carole Petersen, Forced Labour and Dept Bondage in Hong Kong: A Study of Indonesian and Filipina Migrant Domestic Workers (with P. Lee, 2006)
• Carole Petersen, Trafficking of Mainland Chinese Women Into Hong Kong’s Sex Industry: Problems of Identification and Response, 2 ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE LAW 35-84 (with R. Emerton and K.J. Laidler, 2007), available with permission of BRILL Publishing and the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law.
• Child Victims of Human Trafficking
• Child Labor and Human Trafficking
  Mary E. Miller, RN, MN, Child Labor/Young Worker Specialist, Dept of Labor and Industries Employment Standards Program
• ABA Center for Human Rights Proposal for the Uniform Law Commission

 

Keynote Address: The Complexities of Human Trafficking in Post-earthquake Haiti: What is the Role of Foreign Lawyers and is Legislation the Answer?
Nicole Phillips, Institute for Justice and Democracy, Haiti

 

Saturday, January 12

 

Public Health Panel

• Human Trafficking as a Public Health Issue and the Role of Medical Providers
  Dr. Suzanne Poppema, Director of Medical International Consulting
• Public Health and Human Trafficking: ACF Response
  Katherine Chon, Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• H.E.A.R.: An Intervention Mapping Approach for the Identification of Human Trafficking Victims by Health Professionals
  Misa Nguyen, Project Manager, Houston Rescue and Restore Coalition
• The Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
• Medical Treatment of Victims of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
  and Its Applicability to Victims of Human Trafficking
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
• Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatment for Victims of Human Trafficking
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

How Survivor Services Can Be Improved

• Rights and Access to Services of Trafficking Victims
  Emma Catague, Community Organizing Program Manager, API-Chaya

 

Ethical Sourcing & Sustainable Development

• Ethical Sourcing
  Julie Wade, Director & Corporate Counsel, Starbucks Law & Corporate Affairs, Starbucks
• Selected Excerpts from Starbucks Global Responsibility Reports and Policies
  Full reports and policies avaiable at Starbucks.com/responsibility
• Modern Day Slavery and the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act
  Vanessa Lanza, Director of Partnerships, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)
• California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010
• Human Trafficking and the Hospitality Industry
  Jasmine Marwaha, United HERE 8
• Combatting Forced Labor, Trafficking and Exploitation in the Hospitality Industry – The UK Staff Wanted Initiative
• Business and Migration
  Roundtable For Collective Action: Strengthening migrant worker protection in the supply chain
  The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) 2010 Report
• Migrant Workers: Responsible Recruitment and Fair Hiring Practices
  to Combat Trafficking in South Asia
  The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) 2012 Report

 

Humanizing the Impacts of Human Trafficking

• Humanizing the Impacts of Human Trafficking: Labor and Employment PerspectiveSuchi Sharma, Counsel, Policy and Regulatory Development, Department of Labor and Industries
• HSI’s victim-centered approach to Human Trafficking InvestigationsTodd Rignel, Special Agent, Homeland Security Investigations
• Comparative Perspective from CanadaComments of Bootz Estella, Constituency Assistant and Outreach Worker (CA) to Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia, Mable Elmore
• The Challenges of and Potential Solutions to the Problem of the Trafficking of Women and Childern (originally published in 2004)
  Dr. Sutapa Basu, Executive Director, University of Washington Women’s Center