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HUMAN RIGHTS IN FOCUS

Human Rights in Focus 

On the 5th anniversary of our Stand Up against Human Trafficking Symposium in The Hague (2016), FAWCO and the Human Rights Team will be hosting a 4-day virtual conference on Human Rights in Focus. Please mark your calendars and join us for this exciting event Thursday to Sunday, November 4-7, 2021 on the Hopin platform.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (as of July 20, 2021) — we will be adding to this list as we confirm speakers.

DAY 1
— Opening keynote speaker Kimberly Marteau Emerson, Board member Human Rights Watch
— Anila Noor, founder of New Women Connectors
— Nedal Al Salman, president of Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), convenor of IFEX & Vice President of the FIDH
— Target Program/Project 2016-2019 update: Amanda Lane, CRP Executive Director Violence Abroad
— Paula Lucas, Founder of Pathways to Safety International

DAY 2 - Human Trafficking
— Keynote speaker Valiant Richey, OSCE Special Representative & Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
— Lisa Cohen, Supervising Senior Producer, CNN Freedom Project
— Target Program/Project 2013-2016 Update: Free the Girls 
— Panel discussion on “The Victim’s Journey” with Suzanne Hoff, International Coordinator La Strada International; Dr Sheetal Shah, Academic Director Bridge2Hope Webster University; and Esta Steyn, Director Be Slavery Free
— Panel discussion on “Prevention of Child Trafficking” with Mary T. Callahan, Executive Director of Girls on the Run Houston; United Against Human Trafficking, (UAHT); Bob Osborn, Children at Risk; and  Beka Lisgarten, Stop the Traffik (UK),

DAY 3 - Shine a Light - on lesser known forms of Violence against Women
— Keynote speaker: Kelsey MacKay, President of RESPOND Against Violence and McKay Training & Consulting, LLC
— Forced Marriage with Fraidy Reiss, Founder/Executive Director of Unchained at Last; and Zonta 
— Female Genital Mutilation, an Update on Target Project 2020-2022 with Target Chair, Tharien van EckRhobi Samwelly, founder of HOPE; and Hibo Wardere, activist and author of CUT

DAY 4 - Take Action
— Keynote speaker: Jessica Buchleitner, journalist, author and UN NGO Permanent Representative
— Advocacy Workshop - Beth Ellen Holimon, Global Gender Equality Advocate, Social Impact Strategist 
— Erica Higbie, The Women's Human Rights Teaching Learning and Advocacy Resource  and FAWCO UN Rep.