Conference on Strategies for Combating Human Trafficking within the US, Canada and Mexico
Thursday, October 14th, 2004 in the Auditorium at Chicago-Kent College of Law
8:15 – 8:30 Registration
8:30 – 9:00 Welcome Assistant Dean Lydia Lazar
Consul General Anne Charles
9:00 – 10:00 PANEL ONE: Definitions, Scope of Human Trafficking in the NAFTA Region
Dorchen Leidholdt Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Daniel Rothenberg DePaul University Law School
Elissa Steglich Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center
Moderator: Susan Adams Chicago-Kent College of Law
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 12:00 PANEL TWO: International and Regional Initiatives
Oscar Chacon Heartland Alliance, ENLACES
Gustavo Mohar Consultant to Mexican government
Audrey Macklin Univ. of Toronto Faculty of Law
Gabriella Rigg, US Dept of Labor, Intl Labor Bureau
Susan Tiefenbrun Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Moderator: Susan Gzesh University of Chicago
12:15 – 2:00 Luncheon and Keynote Address: Senator Jerry Grafstein, (Canada)
Co-Chair Canada-US Inter-Parliamentary Group
2:30 – 4:30 PANEL THREE: Policy Recommendations
T. March Bell Department of Justice
Laurel Fletcher UC Berkeley School of Law
Elzbieta Gozdziak Georgetown University
Loretta Ortiz Dir. School of Law, Univ. Ibero-Americana
Moderator: Matthew Bernstein Chicago-Kent College of Law
4:30 – 5:00 Wrap up
5:15 - 6:45 Cocktail party
7:00 - 9:00 Benefit Showing of the film "Spartan" on behalf of the
Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center.
Introduced by Thomas Kasza, U.S. Secret Service,
Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Field Office
To register, please visit: https://www.kentlaw.edu/llm/nafta_conf.html or call Nena Heard at 312-906-5134
Co Sponsors: American Bar Association Section on International Law
International and Foreign Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association
United Nations Association of USA – Greater Chicago Chapter
