"#MeToo" Say Survivors: Human Rights, Gender, and Trafficking in Human Beings

General event

Date:: 15 March 2018
Location:: New York, United Nations Headquarters, Conference Room 1
Organized by:: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), Equality Now and the Coalition against Trafficking in Women (CATW)
Source:: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Fields of work:: Human rights, Combating trafficking in human beings, Gender equality

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is organizing, in co-operation with its partners, a side event on gender aspects of trafficking in human beings at the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The event will highlight the importance of ensuring that the gender aspects of human trafficking, as recognized in UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG, Target 5.2 and 16.2), are prioritized within the global anti-trafficking agenda.

The event will consist of a panel discussion and a photo presentation. The attendees will have an opportunity to engage with representatives of the survivor-led movement, gain insight into survivors’ perspectives and understand how gendered aspects of trafficking in human beings can impact anti-trafficking policy implementation. The event will also be an opportunity to discuss challenges, good practices and entry points in addressing implicit bias, from identification to reintegration of women victims of trafficking. Thus, the event aims at highlighting that trafficking in women and girls is a form of gender-based violence and that it is time to fast track efforts to end it and develop mechanisms to protect trafficking victims.

To register at the event please write an email to csw62@odihr.pl by 12 March 2018.

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