Human Trafficking: The Deafening Silence over Modern Slavery

Scarcely mentioned by the media amidst other international crises, human trafficking takes a tragic toll in large and small cities and rural areas around the world. In an insidious form of modern slavery, criminals in the shadows profit from the misery of the most vulnerable women and girls. Join us for the next instalment of the monthly series, Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues, co-sponsored by the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University and the Project on the Future of the Humanities, a joint endeavor of Georgetown and Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University. Panelists include legal and policy analysts of the issue, as well as heroic activists who work in the streets of London and a town in the American Midwest to rescue and heal the victims.

Monday, September 20, 2021, from 11 am to 12:15 pm EDT/4 to 5:15 pm BST.

Get to know the panelists:

• Christina Bain is a Visiting Research Fellow within The Fletcher School’s Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts University and more recently, a Visiting Researcher within the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. She is the former and founding Director of Babson College’s Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery and the former and founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery within the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
• Lisa Hsin is the incoming Helsby Kroll Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford. As a doctoral researcher, she was also a Research Fellow for the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre.
• Pippa Hockton trained in psychotherapy at University of Birmingham. She practiced as a psychotherapist at the Royal Free Hospital in London before founding registered charity Street Talk in 2005. Street Talk takes psychotherapy to women in street prostitution, to women who have been the victims of traffickers.
• Elesondra “Ele” DeRomano is a survivor of commercial sexual exploitation/sex trafficking, a local and national consultant, a motivational speaker, an advocate against all forms of exploitation, and the Founder of Standing Together Against Real Slavery (STARS), an organization based in Toledo, Ohio dedicated to supporting and empowering young women who have experienced or are at high risk for commercial sexual exploitation.