Photo: © UNHCR/Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo
A high level roundtable meeting and an open panel debate to discuss the challenges of human trafficking and severe exploitation on the labour market will take place at Lund University on 1 September 2015. The open panel debate comes only a few weeks after Amnesty International approved a controversial policy in support of decriminalizing the sex trade.
“We are hosting these events to address the pressing issue of human trafficking and severe labour exploitation. We want to contribute to the search for legal solutions and ways to proceed forward,” says Prof. Mia Rönnmar, Dean at the Faculty of Law at Lund University.
More than a decade has passed since the international community decided to use international law as a weapon against human trafficking. Yet governments, policy makers, authorities, and courts still struggle to stop it.
What are the legal boundaries among the various forms of exploitation? How do anti-trafficking law, human rights law and labour law intersect? What are the pre-conditions for moving forward?
Several of the roundtable participants come from institutes and agencies affiliated with the European Union and the UN that work on issues like anti-trafficking, justice and crime prevention, international human rights law, and refugee, border, and migration issues.
Others in attendance include professors and researchers at universities around Europe who are experts on the above issues, as well as labour law.
“Human trafficking and sever labour exploitation is an issue that touches each and every one of us – whether we know it or not,” says Morten Kjaerum, Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. “Making progress in prosecuting traffickers and protecting the human rights of those who are trafficked or kept in slavery is of utmost urgency.”
After the roundtable meeting, at 16:15 on 1 September 2015, an expert debate on human trafficking and severe labour exploitation will be held in the Pufendorf Lecture Hall at the Law Faculty of Lund University.
The debate, which is open to the public, brings together human trafficking experts working at the political, policy, and research level.
More details about the open panel debate
Human Trafficking and Labour Exploitation: A Lost Battle? What’s Next?
Public Panel Debate on Tue Sep 1 at 16:15, Pufendorf Lecture Hall, Law Faculty, Lund University
A discussion about how human trafficking and severe labour exploitation continues to plague societies around the world, including Europe. What are the challenges and which successes have there been on the European and national level? What are the legal boundaries among the various forms of exploitation? How do anti-trafficking law, human rights law and labour law intersect? What are the pre-conditions for moving forward?
The panel debate is organised by the Faculty of Law at Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
Welcome: Prof. Mia Rönnmar, Dean, Faculty of Law, Lund University
Keynote address by Dr. Myria Vassiliadou, EU Anti-trafficking Coordinator
Moderator: Mr. Morten Kjaerum, Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
Panelists:
Dr. Myria Vassiliadou, EU Anti-trafficking Coordinator
Mr. Adriano Silvestri, EU Fundamental Rights Agency
Prof. Judy Fudge, Kent Law School, Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Law, Lund University
Dr. Vladislava Stoyanova, Faculty of Law, Lund University
Date and time:
Tue 1 Sep, 16:15
Venue:
Pufendorfsalen, Tryckeriet, Faculty of Law
Lilla Gråbrödersgatan 4
The high-level roundtable meeting and the panel debate are being jointly organized by the Faculty of Law at Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
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