Join us on Friday, 29 August at 7:30pm for our a roundtable on trafficking. Experts in the field will share their knowledge and experience dealing with trafficking in various contexts.

Our speakers will discuss sex trafficking, labour trafficking and the current StopTraffickingSG Campaign.

Migrant workers are among the most marginalised and exploited groups in Singapore. The lack of legal protection, proper law enforcement, institutional bias and indifference complicates their woes and curtails their ability to get help.

Learn about the newly formed petition for the inclusion of a victim-centered approach to the proposed bill against trafficking in persons to be introduced by Member of Parliament Christopher De Souza.

Event Details:
Date: Friday, 29 August, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Location: AWARE Centre

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Speakers:

Peck Hoon is the campaign manager for the StopTraffickingSG Campaign 2014 and a member of the anti-trafficking team in HOME. Her interest in human rights starts from her international development work in the region including a volunteering stint in Myanmar, working as a trainer with displaced persons in the Thai-Myanmar border and in South Asia managing education and health projects.

Irene Choo is a volunteer with AWARE’s Research & Advocacy as well as a co-ordinator for the “Stop Trafficking SG” campaign. She has a Masters in Financial Economics with University of London and lived in various parts of the world from Malaysia to US and Taiwan before returning to Singapore in 2009. While in Taiwan, she helped initiate “English-Only” coaching in public schools, which provide free English “Conversation“ & “Story-telling” classes for the under-privileged children and parents to help promote an “English friendly” learning environment in the school. Her interest in human rights issues stems from her belief that: “A person’s a person no matter how small” (by Dr Seuss)

Dimitra Messini is an intern at AWARE and also a lawyer from Greece. She has done a lot of pro bono work with victims of domestic and gender based violence, with sex workers and immigrants. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in ICU, Tokyo on a scholarship from Rotary International. She decided to move abroad to be able to work internationally and be a part of the international human rights regime.