The conference „Human trafficking and its victims – new developments“ is organized by the Austrian Task Force on Combating Human Trafficking in cooperation with the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, the VIDC and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), on the occasion of the EU-Anti-Trafficking Day.

The VIDC has invited Julia O’Connell Davidson (Professor in Social Research, University of Bristol) as keynote speaker and Ghada Jabbour (Kafa enough Violence and Exploitation, Libanon) as panelist, and has organized the workshop „Migration control, criminal justice and a human rights-based approach – how to serve all?“ in cooperation with the OSCE. Besides the above mentioned speakers the independent anti-trafficking consultant and practitioner Marco Bufo will also function as a resource person in the workhop.

Conference program in German and English and VIDC/OSZE Workshop Concept can be found in the LINKS below.

Conference languages: German and English with simultaneous interpretation

REGISTRATION KINDLY REQUESTED
Please RSVP by 10 October by sending the registration form (last link below) to elke.lidarik@osce.org and bring your identification card to the registration desk.
Facebook registrations will not be taken into account.

BACKGROUND

Have we forgotten our past? What did we do 30 years ago for Indochinese? What did neighboring countries like Austria do for refugees from war-torn former Yugoslavia?
What will the millions of migrants in Lebanon or in Turkey do if they can’t earn a living? Migrate again? Where to?
How many more deaths will the EU’s inaction cost? What are the EU’s costs for migration and border control and military action against “illegal” migrants? What does the externalization of EU’s migration control to other non-EU countries cost? What would it cost to resettle refugees to EU member states using population and GDP per capita as distribution key?
Why does the EU resist mobility and migration if we witness every day that migration can’t be curbed by any means? Why does the EU not develop, regulate and organize mobility of migrants and refugees? What do politicians get in return from promises to migrants?
If labor migration would be stopped, who would pick the tomatoes we buy, clean our homes, streets and take 24-hour care of our grandparents?
How does the inaction of the EU member states impact Lebanon? How does Lebanon deal with the situation of hosting one and a half million refugees from Syria? How does the deprivation of rights of refugees – to work, health, education, residence – increase the risk of being trafficked and exploited? What challenges do civil society organizations in Lebanon face offering social, legal, psychological support and shelter to victims?
Why don’t we learn from the history and from ineffective and human rights violating policies and actions?

Friday, 21 Oktober 2016
Conference: 9:00 – 18:30
Registration und Coffee: 8:00 – 9:00
VIDC/OSCE Workshop 3: 15:30 – 17:30 Uhr
Hofburg, Neuer Saal, Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna

LINKS

Further information: http://www.vidc.org/en/topics/gender/human-trafficking/human-trafficking-and-its-victims/

Conference program in German: http://www.vidc.org/fileadmin/Bibliothek/DP/Nadja/MH_-_Migration/Menschenhandel-web-deutsch.pdf

Conference program in English: http://www.vidc.org/fileadmin/Bibliothek/DP/Nadja/MH_-_Migration/Menschenhandel-web-englisch.pdf

VIDC/OSCE Workshop Concept: http://www.vidc.org/fileadmin/Bibliothek/DP/Nadja/MH_-_Migration/VIDC_OSCE_Workshop_3.pdf

Registration form: www.vidc.org/fileadmin/Bibliothek/DP/Nadja/MH_-_Migration/Beilage_2__Registrierungsformular.doc