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Webinar: Unveiling Research and Best Practices to End Child Trafficking

A Special Webinar for the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons 

The AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ Children’s Rights Academy with the are pleased to invite you to the public webinar “Unveiling Research and Best Practices to End Child Trafficking” that will take place on 15 July 2024 at 2pm CEST. 

This event anticipates the World Day Against Trafficking in Person, which  focuses on the topic "Leave No Child Behind in the Fight Against Human Trafficking”.

According to the joint report by IOM and Harvard AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ “” child trafficking is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon that continues to spread and evolve within and across borders.  

The webinar will provide a platform for discussing the urgent need to accelerate actions to end child trafficking as well as the implementation of child protection policies and international legal framework

Representatives from academia and practitioners will present the findings from the latest research and explore good practices of how data and information, as well as knowledge sharing, can be used to strengthen child rights approach to programming.  

The webinar will take place on Zoom. A dedicated Q&A session at the end of the webinar will allow for peer exchanges.  

 and feel free to extend this invitation to your colleagues and counterparts. 

We are looking forward to a lively exchange!  

AGENDA

Session

Speaker

Session 1

Overview of the child trafficking and child protection frameworks

Dr. Roberta Ruggiero, Director, Children’s Rights Academy, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ and Dr. Vito Bumbaca, Pedagogical Manager, Children’s Rights Academy, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ

Rosilyne Borland,
Head a.i., Migrant Protection Unit, Protection Division, IOM

Tea Machaidze,
Child Protection Officer, Office of the Special Rapporteur to the Secretary-General (SRSG) on Violence against Children

Session 2

Evidence to inform action

Stine Laursen,
Senior Data Analysis Assistant, Protection Division, IOM

Session 3

Lessons from Experiences and Practices

TBC

Questions and Answers

15 July 2024 at 2pm CEST