Anti-Trafficking Policy and its Effects at Home and Abroad

Please join us for an enlightening discussion on Monday, October 19th from 5-7 pm with Dr. Melissa Ditmore, a post-doctoral fellow in Behavioral Sciences Training at National Development and Research Institutes in New York. She has written about US policy, trafficking in persons and sex work. She is a member of the board of directors of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects.

Dr. Ditmore  will be discussing US funding policy on trafficking and HIV, the Traffic in Persons Report, examples of US pressure on other countries and their responses, and the consequences for sex workers and people in extremely abusive working conditions in a variety of industries.

Panelists also include:
Clara Sommarin- Child Protection Specialist - Exploitation and Violence at UNICEF headquarters in New York.

Anke Strauss-Liaison Officer to the Office of the IOM Permanent Observer to the UN


Hosted By: The Migration Working Group and Gender Policy Working Group of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs

Sponsored By: The Urban and Social Policy and Economic and Political Development Concentrations at SIPA; The Asian Pacific Affairs Council and Human Rights Working Group at SIPA; CUPID.

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED