Confronting Modern Day Slavery: A Blueprint for Renewed Action

Confronting Modern Day Slavery: A Blueprint for Renewed Action

Marking 25 Years of Anti-Human Trafficking Policy

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security hosted this high-level summit to mark the 25th anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and the Palermo Protocol. The TVPA represented a major step forward in acknowledging the realities of human trafficking, but the larger problem it set out to solve has not abated. In fact, much of the infrastructure established by the groundbreaking legislation is threatened by new rollbacks in funding and political will. Featuring keynote remarks from Secretary Hillary Clinton, followed by two roundtables of experts and practitioners, this summit brought together some of the leading anti-trafficking actors from government, civil society, law, academia, and advocacy.

Read a summary of the discussion.

Featuring Keynote Remarks from

Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton 

Panel Discussions Featuring

Amb. Melanne Verveer
Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

Gillian Caldwell
Co-Director, Film: Bought and Sold

Amb. Luis C.deBaca
Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School

Evelyn Chumbow
Advocacy and Survivor Leadership Director, Human Trafficking Legal Center

Elfidar Iltebir
Former President, Uyghur American Association (UAA)

Shawn MacDonald
CEO, Verité

Mahendra Pandey
Forced Labor & Human Trafficking portfolio, Humanity United

Benjamin Skinner
Founder and Principal, Transparentem

Dorothy Taft
Executive Director, The Market Project

Martina Vandenberg
President, The Human Trafficking Legal Center

Additional speakers, including distinguished experts and practitioners in the field of anti-human trafficking policy, to be announced.