City Bar Association to Host a
Special Legal Forum
“HUMAN TRAFFICKING”
What: A Legal Discussion
When: Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at 6 to 9 p.m.
Where: House of the Association, 42 West 44th Street
Human trafficking is a modern manifestation of
slavery and organized crime that affects people
worldwide. The program will cover the legal remedies
that are available to victims of trafficking under
international human rights laws and the Trafficking
Victims Protection Act. The Association will present
a panel of top-notch speakers, each well respected
in their related fields, who will provide an up-to-the-minute
examination of this expanding human crisis. Panelists
will discuss this sensitive subject in candid and
practical terms as the program is geared toward
judges, immigration and criminal defense attorneys,
prosecutors and other legal professionals who encounter
human trafficking victims first-hand in their daily
proceedings.
Speakers:
CLAUDIA FLORES, Skadden Fellow/Staff Attorney, ACLU Women’s Rights
Project.
KEN FRANZBLAU, Legal Consultant, Equality Now.
LISA KURBIEL, U.N. Department of Peace Keeping Operations, Social Affairs
Officer, Trafficking Focalpoint.
DORCHEN LEIDHOLDT, Director, Center for Battered Women's Legal Services,
Sanctuary for Families.
SHARON McCARTHY, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Chief, Violent Crimes Unit (SDNY).
SUZANNE SELTZER, Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP.
CHRISTA STEWART, Director of Legal Services, The Door.
SUZANNE TOMATORE, Director, Immigrant Women & Children Project, City
Bar Fund.
JUHU THUKRAL, Director, Sex Workers Project, Urban Justice Center.
Sponsored by:
The Immigrant Women & Children Project of the City Bar Justice Center
The Domestic Violence Task Force
The Immigration & Nationality Law Committee, and Sex & Law Committee
of the Association
The NYC Service Network for Trafficked Persons.
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