But when I saw that the other two speakers on the panel were speaking on trafficking, one of them from a Rescue-Industry standpoint and the other juridical, I threw out that talk and gave another, hoping to give a humanist context to the other presentations.
I was struck that no one mentioned the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which defines everyone under 18 as a child and is constantly used by anti-prostitution campaigners to claim that adolescents who sell sex cannot consent. One might think consent is easily granted to boys and not to girls. Each of those deserves a panel of its own, or alternatively a panel could be devoted to just one of those, making sure all the speakers address it.
I ended up doing double work, and it was not easy to limit my introduction to only 30 minutes. A lot is omitted in what you hear below, so I hope it all makes sense.
The event was held in a Law School, which explains the rather dramatic courtroom setting, with me a witness in the box. My talk begins a minute later and ends at The third speaker Janet Halley was present via Skype, so you cannot see but perhaps you can hear her. Should the videos fail, you can watch on youtube. Other conference sessions can be viewed here. Pingback: But What about Trafficking? Border Criminologies.
Pingback: Aber was ist mit Menschenhandel? I am fascinated by your history in this video. It sounds so much like me. I did not working in NGOs. I worked for the US State Dept. But I was divorced late in life and bought a small house in a fenced community in Sosua Dominican Republic. I traveled around Europe with my backpack for several months.
