Dayton Human Trafficking Accords Conference

9 - 10 November 2009

John F. Kennedy Memorial Student Union

University of Dayton

Schedule of Events and Participants

 

 

“The trade in human persons constitutes a shocking offense against human dignity and a grave violation of fundamental human rights.” 

                                                                                                                                            -- Pope John Paul II

 

Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery.  Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor.  Victims are young children, teenagers, men and women.

 

Human Trafficking global – and local

As many as 12 million persons worldwide are subjected to slavery or modern-day forms of slavery such as involuntary servitude, peonage or debt bondage.

As many as 800,000 victims are trafficked into slavery across national boundaries each year.

As many as 17,000 persons are trafficked into the United States each year from Asia, Central and South America and Eastern Europe, and are exploited for commercial sex, including prostitution, stripping and pornography, or exploited for labor in domestic servitude, sweatshops or migrant agricultural work.

As many as 300,000 young Americans are vulnerable to sex trafficking within the United States.

OHIO is an origin, transit and destination state for human trafficking 

The Dayton Human Trafficking Accords. 

The Human Rights Studies program at University of Dayton, together with the Office of Migration and Refugee Services of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, presents this conference bringing law enforcement officials, victims’ advocates, academic experts, students and the public together for the purpose of stirring society’s conscience to action against trafficking and slavery.  

Conference participants are invited to sign the Dayton Human Trafficking Accords as an expression of a common commitment to end trafficking and free slaves from their captivity.

The conference will begin at 12:00 with a Working Session for Law Enforcement and Victims Advocates.  Attendance to the working sessions is by invitation only.  The public session, Trafficking is Slavery, will begin at 6:00. The Conference concludes with screening of "Playground" and a conversation with film-maker Libby Spears.

 

 

 

 

 

For further information concerning this event, please contact Mark.Ensalaco@notes.udayton.edu or call 937-229-2765.