Programme

Registration

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Georg Stillfried, National Anti-Trafficking Coordinator; Head of the Austrian
Task Force on Combatting Human Trafficking

Emil Brix, Director of the Vienna School of International Studies

Diane Schmitt, EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator
Dominique Hasler, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Sports of the Principality of Liechtenstein

Ghada Fathi Waly, Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV) and Executive Director of United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Nikolaus Marschik, Secretary General for Foreign Affairs

Keynote Speech

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 

Coffee Break

Panel Discussion: “Boundaries and Frontiers in Human Trafficking”

Petya Nestorova, Executive Secretary of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

Malaika Oringo, Survivor and Founder of Footprint to Freedom

Diane Schmitt, EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator

Corinna Milborn, Media Director, PULS 4 TV

Cindy Dyer, United States Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

Philipp Schwertmann, Head of Department Migration and Decent Work, Arbeit und Leben/German Association of Trade Unions

Moderator: Wolfgang Spadinger, Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs

Discussion with the Audience

Lunch Break

Parallel Workshops held at the Vienna School of International Studies and Online

(1) Workshop: Boundaries of Responsibility: Solidarity against Labour Exploitation (German) MEN VIA, International Organization for Migration IOM

(2) Workshop: Cross-Border Protection of Victims (English) Intervention Centre for Trafficked Women LEFÖ-IBF

(3) Workshop: Child Trafficking as a Failed Concept? Critical Reflections for Effective Child Protection (English) ECPAT, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights LBI

(4) Workshop: The Dark Side of the Internet – Cross-Border Human Trafficking for High Profit. How Society Can Support the Fight Against Exploitation (German) Criminal Intelligence Service Austria BK, Federal Ministry of the Interior BMI

Coffee Break

Presentations by Workshop Rapporteurs

Sangeetha Manavalan, Deputy Director of LEFÖ-IBF

Manfred Buchner, Psychologist, MEN VIA

Helmut Sax, Senior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights

Gerald Tatzgern, Head of Division on Migrant Smuggling, Human Trafficking and Special Investigations, Criminal Intelligence Service Austria

Discussion of Workshop Outcome

Closing Remarks

Georg Stillfried, National Anti-Trafficking Coordinator; Head of the Austrian 
Task Force on Combatting Human Trafficking