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DATE AND TIME Tuesday, August 20
Registration 5:30 p.m. Program 6 -8 p.m.
LOCATION Cowles Auditorium Not My Life: Human Trafficking, Globally and Locally Humphrey School The Minnesota International Center, in collaboration with the World Affairs Councils of of Public Affairs America and Carlson & the Carlson Family Foundation, invite you to an public forum on the critical and misunderstood issue of human trafficking. 301 19th Avenue S Minneapolis Not My Life depicts the scourge of human trafficking on a global scale. Filmed on five continents in a dozen countries, Not My Life takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited through practices including forced labor, domestic servitude, begging, sex tourism and child soldiering. Parking is available across the street in Following the film, there will be a panel discussion featuring: Jeff Bauer, director of public the 19th Avenue policy and civic engagement with The Family Partnership which, with a broad coalition of Ramp partners, was instrumental in passing a “safe harbor” law in Minnesota to protect child victims of sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation; Vednita Carter, executive director of
Breaking Free, a nonprofit organization serving women and girls who have been involved in prostitution; John Choi, Ramsey County attorney, who has worked extensively with local police to create new protocols to obtain convictions and better serve victims of domestic TO REGISTER abuse; and Bukola Oriola, human trafficking survivor, author and host of Imprisoned Show. Visit micglobe.org Moderator: Kathleen Smith Ruhland, of DLA Piper, a leading law firm in pro bono work for human trafficking victims. Free; advanced registration requested
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