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Human Trafficking Conference November 14, 2014 • Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre, Sorrento, British Columbia, Canada Index of Presentations 1 International Anglican Women’s Network A An Official Network of the Anglican Communion Canada Human Trafficking Conference November 14, 2014 • Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre, Sorrento, British Columbia, Canada Index of Presentations 1 Copyright Permissions ......................................................................................................... 2 Conference Poster ................................................................................................................. 3 Conference Presenters and Organizers ......................................................................... 4 The Rt. Rev’d Barbara Andrews - Welcome .................................................................... 6 The Rev’d Canon Dr. Alice Medcof, Conference Moderator .................................... 7 Conference YouTube video ................................................................................................... 8 The Honourable Joy Smith - Member of Parliament ................................................ 9 Connecting the Dots .................................................................................................. 11 Glendene Grant - Founder of MATH ................................................................................. 39 USER NOTE Missing! .............................................................................................................................. 40 When you download this Sister Nancy Brown ................................................................................................................ 43 pdf to your computer and Covenant House Vancouver Programs & Services ........................................ 44 open with Adobe Acrobat Reader, the Table of The Reverend Terrie Robinson - Anglican Communion Office ............................... 73 Contents (right) becomes Anglicans responding to human trafficking and modern slavery ............ 74 clickable/interactive, the Corporal Jassy Bindra - Royal Canadian Mounted Police ........................................ 107 web links in the text will Human Trafficking .......................................................................................................... 108 open in the browser, and the Bookmarks (left in the Rosalind Currie, British Columbia Ministry of Justice ................................................ 123 Reader window) will also BC’s Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons (OCTIP) ................................. 124 become clickable. Resources ....................................................................................................................................... 136 International Anglican Women’s Network • Canada Human Trafficking Conference • November 14, 2014 • Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre Copyright Permissions 2 The views expressed in the Human Trafficking Ebook are those of the presenters and are not necessarily held by the International Anglican Women’s Network-Canada. All of the materials in the Ebook can be reproduced but please make reference to the presenter, the presentation, and to this document. Importantly, the material cited from Invisible Chains in Glendene Grant’s presentation (pp 39-42) cannot be reproduced without written permission from Penguin Canada Books Inc. The contact information is: Penguin Canada Books Inc. 90 Eglinton Avenue East Suite 700 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3 Telephone (416) 925-2249 Fax (416) 925-0068 International Anglican Women’s Network • Canada Human Trafficking Conference • November 14, 2014 • Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre International Anglican Women’s Network 3 An Official Network of the Anglican Communion Human Trafficking Conference Where: Sorrento Centre – Retreat and Conference Centre British Columbia Date: Friday, November 14, 2014 Time: Registration – 8:00 AM • Conference – 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM Keynote Speakers Cost: $35 by November 1st • $50 thereafter Includes lunch and coffee breaks Reasonable accommodation is available at: Sorrento Centre or in Kamloops Shuttle Service between Kamloops and Sorrento is available. Honourable The Rev Canon Joy Smith, MP Dr. Alice Medcof To register contact: Sorrento Centre 1159 Passchendaele Road, PO Box 99 Sorrento, BC Canada V0E 2W0 Phone: 250-675-2421 Toll free: 1-866-694-2409 Fax: 250-675-3032 The Rev. Sister Nancy Brown Glendene Grant Terrie Robinson Covenent House MATH Founder Think Globally – Act Locally Additional speaker: RCMP Corporal Jazzy Bindra Your Voice • Your Network • Your Communion International Anglican Women’s Network • Canada Human Trafficking Conference • November 14, 2014 • Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre Conference Presenters and Organizers 4 BISHOP BARBARA ANDREWS SISTER NANCY BROWN ROZ CURRIE The Right Reverend Barbara Andrews is Sister Nancy Brown is the Pastoral Rosalind Currie is the Director of BC’s Suffragan Bishop for the Anglican Counselor/Ombudsperson and a Senior Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons Parishes of the Central Interior. She is Manager at Covenant House Vancouver with the Ministry of Justice. Roz holds a one of two women serving as Bishops in and has worked for 17 years at Covenant law degree from the University of the Ecclesiastical Province of British House. She has worked extensively to Ottawa and has worked in the anti- Columbia and Yukon. Bishop Barbara eliminate human trafficking. In violence field for over 10 years. She was was previously Director of the Sorrento September 2012, Sister Nancy was also the former Senior Policy Advisor to Conference and Retreat Centre. invested into the Order of British the Chief Commissioner of the BC Columbia for her work, and in 2013, she Human Rights Commission. Roz will received the Queen Elizabeth II focus on the Province of British RCMP CORPORAL JASSY BINDRA Diamond Jubilee Medal. Columbia’s efforts in combating human Corporal Jassy Bindra is the Human Sister Nancy will focus on community trafficking. [Roz was unable to attend] Trafficking Co-ordinator for the British programs and services offered to those Columbia division of the Royal Canadian who have been trafficked. Mounted Police. She has been guest GLENDENE GRANT speaker at a number of events and has Ms. Glendene Grant is the founder of led workshops on combating human MATH: Mothers Against Trafficking trafficking. Humans. Her organization helps families Jassy will focus on the enforcement who have had members trafficked. aspects of human trafficking. Glendene’s daughter was trafficked into the United States in 2005. Glendene’s focus is on the personal impacts of human trafficking. International Anglican Women’s Network • Canada Human Trafficking Conference • November 14, 2014 • Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre Conference Presenters and Organizers 5 THE REVEREND CANON DOCTOR THE REVEREND TERRIE ROBINSON Joy developed the plan established by ALICE MEDCOF For the past 11 years Terrie has been a the Government of Canada as the Alice is a long standing member of the staff member at the Anglican National Action Plan to Combat Human International Anglican Women’s Communion Office which is the London- Trafficking. Network (IAWN). She has served on the based Secretariat serving the world- The Honorable Joy Smith will focus on International Steering Group of the wide Anglican Communion. After several the Federal Governments policy to IAWN and also as Canadian Provincial years supporting the official Networks combat human trafficking. Link. Alice was recently awarded an of the Communion and looking after the Honorary Doctorate at Trinity College, Women’s Desk, she has recently taken BEHIND THE SCENES University of Toronto for her work with on the role of Director for Women in THE REVEREND IAWN. Church and Society. MARGARET M. DEMPSTER Alice is time keeper and moderator for Terrie will focus on the global impact of the Human Trafficking Event. human trafficking. Margaret is an Anglican priest serving in the Anglican Parishes of the Central THE HONOURABLE JOY SMITH Interior. She was elected globally as one The Honourable Joy Smith is a Member of seven women to serve on the IAWN of Parliament for Kildonan-St. Paul Steering Group, and is, at the moment, (Manitoba) was first elected to the the sole representative for North Canadian House of Commons in 2004. In America. Margaret is the treasurer for 2007, she put forward a motion M-153 the IAWN Steering Group. to recommend the government develop a national strategy to combat human trafficking, and the House of Commons passed the motion unanimously. International Anglican Women’s Network • Canada Human Trafficking Conference • November 14, 2014 • Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre The Rt. Rev’d Barbara Andrews • Welcome 6 It is a joy for me to welcome you to this very gave their backing to a ground-breaking important conference on the subject of Human ecumenical initiative to combat modern Trafficking on behalf of Archbishop John Privett slavery and human trafficking. The leaders whose diocese we meet in today. I add my own of the world churches have called for urgent welcome to you as one who oversees the action by all Christian churches and global jurisdiction of the Central Interior of BC, where faiths to work for the struggle against the “Highway of Tears” goes through the area. modern slavery and human trafficking from a faith base, so that we might be witnesses to I want to first acknowledge the Shuswap God’s compassion and act for the benefit of people, whose land we meet on today and give those who are abducted, enslaved and thanks for the gracious welcome
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