Round Table - Human Trafficking Reloaded: Making Identification & Justice Safe and Accessible for Victims in Digital and post-COVID Times

Datum/Zeit
April 16, 2021
10:00 - 16:00 MESZ/MEZ

International Expert Round Table

Due to the ongoing precarious pandemic situation in Austria and many partner countries, we are prone to convert the event, which originally was planned as an event with physical presence of relevant multipliers from various countries, into expert talks – broadly accessible via Live-stream -, where we shall encourage and stimulate a qualitative debate among high-level international, regional and national experts/researchers/practitioners/stakeholders on the following issues:

* Do we need a New Anti-Trafficking Strategy for the Digital and post-COVID Age?

* How other Priorities have trumped Human Trafficking & eventually do more Harm than Good

10.00-10.30 Welcome & Introduction
Helga Konrad, Head/Coordinator ‚Regional Implementation Initiative on Preventing & Combating Human Trafficking‘, Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM): Introduction and Moderation

10.30-13.00 Expert Talk 1:

Do we need a New Anti-Trafficking Strategy for the Digital and post-COVID Age?

Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, former UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons
Mike Dottridge, Independent Expert and Consultant, UK
Kristiina Kangaspunta, UNODC, Head of Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
Helmut Sax, Senior Researcher, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM), Austria
Suzanne Hoff, International Coordinator, La Strada International, NL
Ryszard Piotrowicz, Professor Aberystwyth University, Dept. of Law and Criminology, former Head of GRETA
Peter von Bethlenfalvy, Executive Director, CEIPA Center for European and International Policy Action, Belgium
Olivier Onidi, Acting EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator, Deputy Director General, DG Migration and Home Affairs

14.00-16.00 Expert Talk 2:

How other Priorities have trumped Human Trafficking & eventually do more Harm than Good

Kiril Sharapov, Researcher, Associate Professor of Applied Social Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
Klara Skrivankova, Independent Expert on Trafficking and Business and Human Rights, UK
Stefano Volpicelli, Researcher, Independent Expert and Consultant, Italy
Marija Andelkovic, Director of NGO ASTRA-Anti trafficking action, Serbia
Evelyn Probst, Coordinator of LEFÖ-Intervention Centre for Trafficked Women and Girls (IBF), Austria
Manfred Buchner, Head of MEN VIA, Vienna
Eva Plank-Sandhofer, EUROPOL

For further information on full implmentation of anti-trafficking commitments read the compliation: „The Regional Implementation Initiative – a Think-Tank and Catalyst since 2010 for Policy Action, Innovation and Full Implementation Initiative of Anti-Trafficking Commitments„