Stop Traffick! Tackling Demand for Sexual Services of Trafficked Women and Girls

27 March 2014, Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

AGENDA

Chair: Denise Charlton, CEO Immigrant Council of Ireland

9.30am Registration

Stop Traffick! Tackling Demand for Sexual Services of Trafficked Women and Girls

27 March 2014, Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

9.50am Welcome by Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, founding board member of the ICI

10.00am David Stanton TD, Chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee for Justice, Defence and Equality

10.10am EU Commissioner, EC DG Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström (pre-recorded address)

Stop Traffick! Tackling Demand for Sexual Services of Trafficked Women and Girls

27 March 2014, Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

10.20am Attitude of Men Who Buy Sex from Trafficked People and others, Project research Nusha Yonkova, ICI Anti-trafficking Coordinator

10.50am Q&A

Stop Traffick! Tackling Demand for Sexual Services of Trafficked Women and Girls

27 March 2014, Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

11.10am Coffee Break

Chair: Dr. Ursula Barry, head of Gender Studies at Social Justice, UCD

11.30am “Consent: The Defining Factor in Legitimising the Purchase of a Person for Sex in Ireland” Dr Monica O’Connor

Stop Traffick! Tackling Demand for Sexual Services of Trafficked Women and Girls

27 March 2014, Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2 11.50 am “Addressing and Reducing the Demand for Commercialised Sexual Services” Prof Roger Matthews, Kent University, Advisor to UK Parliament All-Party Group on Prostitution

12.10pm “Demand Reduction Strategies and Outcomes in Finland” Venla Roth, Senior Advisor to the Finnish National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons

12.30pm Panel discussion, followed by Q&A

Stop Traffick! Tackling Demand for Sexual Services of Trafficked Women and Girls

27 March 2014, Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

12.55pm Chair: Closing remarks

1. 00pm Lunch

“ Solutions”: Thematic Panels

Stop Traffick! Tackling Demand for Sexual Services of Trafficked Women and Girls

27 March 2014, Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

2.00pm I. How to Reduce Demand For Sexual Services from Trafficked Victims Panel: Diana Videva, Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation Dr Dalia Puidokiene, Klaipeda Social & Psychological Service Centre, Lithuania Anna Zobnina, Mediterranean Institute for Gender Studies, Cyprus Pirjo Sohlo, Multicultural Women’s Association, Finland

Panel moderator: Grégoire Théry, Mouvement du Nid France

Stop Traffick! Tackling Demand for Sexual Services of Trafficked Women and Girls

27 March 2014, Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

II. Experiences of women and their view of buyers of sex 3.00pm Panel: Rachel Moran, SPACE Alliance Karen McHugh , CEO Doras Luimní Sarah Benson, CEO Ruhama Hilkka Becker, Senior Solicitor Immigrant Council of Ireland Panel moderator: Pierrette Pape, European Women’s Lobby Coordinator

Stop Traffick! Tackling Demand for Sexual Services of Trafficked Women and Girls

27 March 2014, Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

4.00 pm Closing remarks: John Cunningham, ICI Chair of Board