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Women's & Gender Studies Program
Wake Forest University
Tribble Hall, A106A
P.O. Box 7365
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Phone: 336-758-3758
Fax: 336-758-4143
wgs@wfu.edu

Slavery Still Exists - and you might be surprised by where it is - The Trafficking of Humans for Sex and Labor

Thursday, October 29, 2009

4:00 pm

Multicultural Resource Center

UNC Greensboro

A panel of experts working on the front lines of this battle in North Carolina will discuss the nature, extent and causes of the problem and what needs to be done to stop it.

• What is human trafficking?
• How do we recognize it?
• The economics of modern slave trafficking
• The role of power, greed, oppression and desperation
• What it looks like in NC and the Triad
• What is being done to combat it?

Panelists include Danielle Mitchell, Executive Director, Triad Ladder of Hope; Heather Blackerby, Anti-trafficking Case Manager, World Relief Corp.; and Rachel Braver, Paralegal, Battered Immigrant Project, Legal Aid of North Carolina.