In Our Backyards-Modern-Day Slavery and Trafficking
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Posted by Web Team, February 13, 2006
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The goal of this conference is to raise awareness and create a forum for study and pathways for action about modern-day slavery and trafficking.
Trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transporting, providing or obtaining, by any means, any person for forced labor, slavery or servitude in any industry or site such as agriculture, construction, prostitution, manufacturing, begging, domestic service, or marriage. – Trafficking in Persons: A Guide for Non-Governmental Organizations, 2002 (Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor)
The trafficking and involuntary servitude of people is a human rights violation. The trade in human beings is estimated to be the third largest criminal activity in the world (right after arms dealing and drug dealing). And it is not only happening in places far away, but also right here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts — in our neighborhoods and in our backyards.
This conference is designed to provide participants with an opportunity to engage in dialogue with advocates, activists, survivors, and concerned neighbors about the complexities that allow human slavery to exist today in our city.
For more information: email diane.hammer@simmons.edu
Sponsors:
The Simmons College School of Social Work Urban Leadership Program, the Simmons Institute of Leadership and Change, the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Women’s Studies and Multidisciplinary Core Course, the Center for Gender in Organizations at the School of Management, and the School for Health Studies In partnership with the Trafficking Victims Outreach and Services (TVOS) Network/Matahari: Eye of the Day.
