An estimated 24.9 million people are trapped in modern-day slavery. The overwhelming majority of the victims are entrapped and controlled by criminal networks operating together with corrupt public officials. Join the Anti-Corruption Forum and the UNA-NCA International Law Committee in a discussion on the ways in which corruption enables and perpetuates human trafficking and migrant smuggling, and what the international community can do to address these human rights abuses.
Keynote Lead Speakers:
- Katie Ford, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Freedom For All
- Ambassador Luis C. deBaca, Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (2009-2014), Director of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (“SMART Office“) (2014-2017)
Panel:
- Robert Craft, Jr., Senior Counsel, Sullivan and Cromwell, LLP., Co-Chair of UNA-NCA Legal Affairs Committee (Moderator)
- Frank Vogl, Co-founder, Transparency International and the Partnership for Transparency Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University
- Kelly Ann P. Whelan, Consultant for Crime Research Section on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna, Austria