Carolina Women's Center : Initiatives

Sex Trafficking Conference

April 2006

In April 2006, the Carolina Women’s Center hosted, in collaboration with many campus and community cosponsors, a highly successful international conference on sex trafficking. The conference was organized in recognition of the fact that the trafficking of women and children is a profound global human rights violation and that human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world.

Table of Contents

I. "Culture of Pornography"
Alesia Adams, Youth Development and Sexual Trafficking Prevention
Coordinator, Salvation Army

III. “Recommendations”
Rosilyne Borland, Associate Expert at International Organization for Migration

IV. "National Trends in Combating Sexual Trafficking"
Derek Ellerman, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Polaris Project

V. "Trafficking in the Philippines"
Annalisa Enrile, Chair of GABRIELA Network

VI. “What Must We Not Know In Order to Keep the Business of Sexual Exploitation Running Smoothly?”
Melissa Farley, Ph.D., Founder and Director, Prostitution Research & Education

VIII. "Health Implications and Health Care Challenges Associated with Prostitution"
Catherine Fogel, PhD, RNC , FAAN, Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

X. "Approaches to Prostitution: Impact on Sex Trafficking"
Donna Hughes, Ph.D., Professor and Carlson Endowed Chair, Women's Studies Program, University of Rhode Island

XII. “Attacking Trafficking: U.S. Leadership in a Tri-Partite Approach to Addressing Supply, Demand, and Distribution”
Laura Lederer, Senior Advisor on Trafficking, Office for Democracy and Global Affairs, U.S. Department of State

XIII. "International Efforts against Sexual Trafficking"
Dorchen Leidholdt, Co-Executive Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

XV. "Strategies to Seek Appropriate Anti-Trafficking Legislation"
Major W. David Munday, State Highway Patrol

XVI. "Identifying Human Trafficking"
Marisa Ugarte, Executive Director of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition