Do No Harm: A Fresh Perspective on Anti-Human Trafficking Work
by Collaborative Network to End Exploitation
Tue, 23 Mar 2021, 10:00 AM –
Tue, 27 Apr 2021, 3:00 PM EDT
Frontline workers, survivors, and other experts share insight into the unintentional harms and impacts of some HT practices and policies.
Zoom link -
https://zoom.us/j/93070074945?pwd=c0g5SjZFdjlTMTVtWnVXdGs4UlVEUT09
Tuesday, March 23, 10:00 to 11:00 am EDT
Tuesday, March 30, 2:00 to 3:00 pm EDT
Tuesday, April 6, 2:00 to 3:00 pm EDT
Tuesday, April 13, 2:00 to 3:00 pm EDT
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Human trafficking is an abhorrent crime that we have a collective duty to address. Doing so requires policy changes and investments in services and programs to support survivors and those who are targeted by traffickers. Too often, the policies and investments sought by anti-human trafficking groups end up harming those vulnerable and marginalized groups.
Do No Harm: A Fresh Perspective on Anti-Human Trafficking Work is a webinar series that brings forward voices of frontline workers, survivors, and other experts to help us uncover blind spots and tensions within the anti-human trafficking work. Through it, we will discover new practices that center the voices and experiences of those most affected by this work.
This series assumes an audience with basic knowledge and understanding of human trafficking. We will only be covering definitions insofar as the problems and biases that are inherent in them.
*All webinars will be CART captioned*
Webinar 1 - Anti-Oppression and Human Trafficking Work
Tuesday, March 23 - 10:00AM to 11:00AM EDT
Speakers: Sue Wilson, Director, Office for Systemic Justice & Shelley Gilbert, Coordinator of Social Work Services, Legal Assistance of Windsor
Description: Anti-oppression is a must in our work with human trafficking survivors, including advocacy and policy development. This webinar will highlight some blind spots and tensions within the anti-human trafficking work and suggest promising practices from trauma-informed lenses.
Webinar 2 - Sex Workers: Why Anti-Human Trafficking Work is Harmful
Tuesday, March 30 - 2:00PM to 3:00PM EDT
Speaker: Elene Lam, Founder, Butterfly: Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network
Description: Anti-Human Trafficking work is particularly harmful to sex workers, particularly racialized and migrant. As a result, from the advocacy work of anti-trafficking organizations, the Asian and migrant workers in massage parlours and the sex industry are being surveilled, racially profiled, raids, arrested, jailed, and deported. The anti-trafficking campaigns and policies have covered up the moralistic, racist, anti-sex worker, and anti-migrant agenda that deny sex workers justice and dignity and permits social exclusion and violence. Learn how to stop the harm of anti-trafficking working work. Support#8CallsforJustice
Webinar 3 - Migrant Workers Essential but Disposable for the State and Employers
Tuesday, April 6 - 2:00PM to 3:00PM EDT
Speaker: Larissa Maxwell, Director of The Salvation Army Illuminate and Natalie Drolet, Staff Lawyer/Executive Director, Migrant Workers Centre
Description: For decades migrant workers have been subjected to exploitation in Canada. Closed work permits, restricted movement, weak labour standard protections, lack of a pathway to permanent residency increase workers' exploitation and human trafficking. Policies such as the Temporary Residents Permit, created to protect migrants in those situations are flawed and rarely issued by the immigration officers.
Webinar 4 - Youth on the Margins: Preventing Trafficking by Advancing Equity
Tuesday, April 13 - 2:00 PM to 3:00PM EDT
Speaker: Asha Dahir (she/her), Project Coordinator of Aura Freedom's Human Trafficking Peer Prevention Project
Description: Preventing human trafficking from happening at all is key. But, how do we do that effectively? Gender inequality, systemic racism, colonialism and toxic masculinity rooted in patriarchy are some of the reasons youth are exploited and trafficked. Without efforts focused on prevention that address those root causes, anti-trafficking efforts will fail. By advancing equity and through learning about consent and healthy relationships, we can empower youth to demand better for themselves and their communities. After all, it's very difficult to traffic empowered youth.
Webinar 5 - Beyond Inclusion: Survivor Leadership & Empowerment
Tuesday, April 20 - 2:00PM to 3:00PM EDT
Speaker: Rhonelle Bruder, Founder and Executive Director, Project iRISE
Description: Survivors of human trafficking are uniquely equipped to help in finding solutions to end trafficking and exploitation. However, research, policy, and services within the anti-trafficking movement continue to be led primarily by non-profit organizations and other stakeholders, leaving out those with lived experience. Therefore, to engage survivors in a meaningful way and ensure their participation goes beyond inclusion, survivor leadership and empowerment need to be the central focus. In this webinar, human trafficking survivor turned advocate, Rhonelle Bruder, will share how organizations can actively empower and elevate the survivors they work with to help shape the next generation of leaders, and how her nonprofit Project iRISE is developing Toronto's first Survivor Leadership initiative.
Webinar 6 - Indigenous Voices: Perspective on Human Trafficking
Speaker: Melissa (Mel) Compton, Curriculum and Program Specialist, Canadian Roots Exchange
Description: This webinar will highlight how racism and ongoing colonialism are manifested in dominant narratives and approaches to human trafficking work as it relates to Indigenous communities.
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