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NOTICE: This project was superceded by the Hawaii Anti-Trafficking Task Force (HATTF) in July 2005. HATTF is an initiative funded by the Department of Justice. CONFERENCE. 21st - 27th Novebmer 2005 V. International Conference Women in the 21st Century University of Havana, Cuba The Chair of Women Studies of the University of Havana is happy to announce the V International Conference 'Women in the 21st Century' which will take place at the University of Havana from the 21st to 27th of November 2005. Sponsored by the Federation of Cuban Women, its main purpose is to promote dialogues, exchange of information, and the reassessment within various academic disciplines concerning Gender, Feminism, and Women's Studies. MORE... CONFERENCE. 1st - 4th February 2005 Conference on Gender, Globalization, and Militarism The Women's Studies Program cordially invites you to join us in thinking about Gender, Globalization, and Militarism - a conference for the university and the community with Cynthia Enloe and Teresia. MORE... CONFERENCE PROGRAM THE HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION IN ASIA-PACIFIC-U.S.: The Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children The November 2002 conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii was the initial event in GRC's on-going research project on Human Trafficking. Trafficking is framed in the context of the global flow of migration, labor and capital, alert to the feminization of migration and violation of human rights. This project draws scholars and researchers together to address new forms of human slavery which are rapidly expanding in the global economy. CONFERENCE DECLARATION FINAL CONFERENCE WRAP-UP Sponsored by the Globalization Research Center (GRC), University of Hawaii in partnership with the East-West Center, "The Human Rights Challenge of Globalization in Asia-Pacific-US" conference has two objectives. First, to protect the rights of victims and at-risk-persons, it seeks to locate trafficking in persons in the context of the global movements of capital, labor, and people. Second, it seeks to provide an open and congenial setting for persons committed to a humane vision of human flourishing. A major feature of this conference is the broad range of participants: NGOs, international organizations, bi and multi-lateral organizations, law enforcement, migration and police personnel, legal experts, government officials, researchers/scholars, grass-roots human rights advocates and members of civil society. To advance existing initiatives and to move beyond awareness raising, participants are encouraged to address the hard issues and root causes of human trafficking: The global demand for both sexual and non-sexual purposes, including domestic and child labor, corporate promotion of cheap human and material goods and services, Western consumer demand for such cheap goods, first-world and local demand for sex tourism, internet pornography, including both clients and providers of sexual services Corruption and government ties to criminal recruiters Gender discrimination against women and girls Global corporate practices which destabilize grassroots communities and thwart alternative livelihood economic policies To address these concerns, some 300 anti-trafficking experts will convene in Honolulu with an action-oriented mandate to provide concrete tools and strategies for combating human trafficking. Click here for a list of PANELS and ABSTRACTS. Click here for the Press Release of June 10, 2002: UH Globalization Research Center Will Host Conference on Human Trafficking WEB-SITE RESOURCES For the next three months preceding the November conference, this site will be designed as a resource "library" for participants, presenters and the global public. Posted below are: A list of key-note speakers (with bios) A selection of featured presenters (affiliation and bios) In the near future we will post on our web-site a PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE with presenters' names, affiliations, and program details (titles, dates and times). REGISTRATION COSTS** * Conference fee (before 9.15.02) -- $150 * Conference fee (after 9.15.02) -- $175 * Hotel rooms (1 or 2 people) -- $ 95 * Airlines: * Northwest -- 10% discount * United -- 5% discount REGISTRATION MATERIALS AVAILABLE NOW Registration for the conference will be coordinated by the East-West Center. Please select "Globalization and Trafficking Conference" from the drop-down menu on the East West Center's registration page. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Opening Speech by Conference Director Nancie Caraway * Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Senator * Noeleen Heyzer, Director, UNIFEM * Kevin Bales, Author, Researcher * Vitit Muntarbhorn, Chairman, Thai Committee on the Rights of the Child FEATURED PRESENTERS: * John Frederick, Director, Ray of Hope, Nepal * Saisuree Chutikul, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Thailand * Celia Leones, UN Coalitions Against Trafficking in Human Beings in the Philippines * Aurora De Dios, Executive Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-Asia Pacific (CATW), Philippines * Nora Okja Keller, Author, Hawaii * Lanyan Chen, UNIFEM, China * Alexander Acosta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, USA * Ay You, Secretary of State, Ministry of Women's and Veteran's Affairs, Kingdom of Cambodia * Youngsook Cho, Director, Korea Women's Associates United, South Korea * Saundra Sturdevant, Historian and Documentary Photographer, USA * Mohamed Mattar, Director, The Protection Project, Johns Hopkins University, USA * Mary Soledad Perpinan, President and CEO, Third World Movement Against the Exploitation of Women (TW-MAE-W), Philippines ADDITIONAL PRESENTERS: * Merceditas Guittierez, Undersecretary, Department of Justice, Government of the Philippines * Siriporn Skrobanek, President, Foundation for Women, Bangkok * Serey Phal Kien, Director, Cambodian Wome's Development Agency * Meena Poudel, Country Representative to Oxfam,Nepal * Jyoti Sanghera, Center for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi * Yumiko, Uemura Kyoto YWCA, Japan * Ann Jordan, Int'l Human Rights Law Group * Matthew Friedman, USAID, Bangladesh * Anne Gallagher, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights * Zia Ahmed Awan, President, Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid, Pakistan * Susu Thatun, National Coordinator, UN Intern-Agency Project on Trafficking on Women and Children, Burma * Jane Elymore, National Women's Office, Federated States of Micronesia * Janice Raymond, Co-Executive Director CATW * Christa Stewart, Director Safe Horizon NGO, New York City * Lance Bonneau, IOM Regional Programme Officer, Bangkok * Kinsey Dinan, Researcher/Consultant International Trafficking * Widney A. Brown, Director, Asia Divison, Human Rights Watch * Sonomi Tanaka, Social Development Specialist, Asian Development Bank, Manila * Neha Misra, Solidarity Center, AFL-CIO Indonesia * Jean Enriquez, CATW, Philippines * Anuradha Koirala, Chair, Maiti Nepal * Dewi Novirianti, Indonesian Nat'l Commission on Violence Against Women * Norma Timbang, Exec. Dir, Asian & Pacific Islander Women & Family * David Feingold, UNESCO, Ophidian Research Institute, Bangkok (UN Chronicle) * Phil Marshall, UN Interagency Project on Trafficking, Bangkok * Poonam Smith-Sreen, USAID New Delhi * Julianne Duncan, US Conference of Catholic Bishops * Kelly Hill, Founder Sisters Offering Support, Hawaii * Edward Kubo, US Attorney State of Hawaii * Ngoc Bihn Vu, Project Officer, UNICEF, Vietnam * Jenny Stanger, Media Director, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) * Cecelia Diocson, Chair, Nat'l Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada * Terry Coonan, Florida State University Center for the Advancement of Human Rights * Tine Staermose, ILO-IPEC South Asia Trafficking Project * Tahir Khilji, Sr. Program Officer, Vision, Pakistan * Ratna Kapur, Professor, CUNY Law School * Françoise Vergés, Center for Cultural Studies, Univ. of London * Margaret Chung, Independent Researcher, Fiji * Pamela Foster, World Population Foundation, Netherlands * Melissa Farley, Dir., Prostitution, Research and Education * Ishrat Shamin, Centre for Women and Children Studies, Bangladesh * Pamela Shifman, UNICEF * Wendy Patten, National Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch * Pratap Kumar, Pathak Ministry of Women and Children, Nepal * Velma Veloria, State Representative State of Washington ADDITIONAL MISCELLANEOUS CONFERENCE PAPERS: * Nandini Azad * Brian Iselin * Heather Peters * Mu Hong * Nandita Sharma * Jean Pyle