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Overview

This year's confernce will be our 10th anniversary event! Please continue to visit this space for additional updates.

Our sincerest gratitude to everyone who participated in, presented and attended our 9th Annual International Conference on Human Trafficking, Prostitution and Sex Work this September!  If you did not receive our email of the PowerPoint presentations from the Conference and would like to receive them, please email us. 

Purpose

To bring together researchers and practitioners in an effort to lay the groundwork for future collaborative research, advocacy, and program development. To educate social service, health care, and criminal justice professionals on human trafficking and the needs and risks of those victimized by the commercial sex industry.

Event Details

The Conference will be held September 26th-27th, 2013 in the Student Union at the University of Toledo.  

Who Should Attend

This conference is open to survivors, researchers, practitioners, activists, students, sex workers and workers in the social service, criminal justice, and health care fields, as well as other interested parties.

Call for Abstracts: 

The 2013 Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the 10th Annual International Human Trafficking, Prostitution and Sex Work Conference. This year's conference will be a special anniversary celebration so we anticipate an even larger and more exciting event than in previous years! We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for consideration. The length of abstracts should be no more than 250 words. The abstract must identify objectives to be achieved in the session. Abstracts will be used to secure continuing education units for professionals attending the conference. Abstracts that do not contain objectives will not be considered. Because abstracts will also be printed in the conference packet for attendees to make decisions on which sessions to attend, please make your abstract clear, interesting, with valuable information. We also request that you also submit a brief personal/professional bio of 50 words or less. Your bio must include your educational background (if relevant), your experience, and any other information that demonstrates your expertise in the area of which you are presenting. Your bio will be used to secure continuing educational credits for your session and to introduce you in your conference session. 

This year, the conference will take place, Thursday, September 26th and Friday, September 27th, 2013 on the campus of The University of Toledo in Toledo Ohio. Interested parties should email their submissions to traffickingconference@gmail.com no later than June 30th, 2013.  Please see a listing of relevant presentation topics below.

Areas of Interest-

• Violence and the Sex Trade

• Children and Teen Victims of Trafficking

• International Trafficking

• HIV & other Health Related Risks

• Programming Models and Funding

• Domestic Trafficking

• Personal Experiences in the Sex Trade

• Drug Addiction and the Sex Trade

• Men & Boys in the Sex Trade

• Children of Women in the Sex Industry

• Neighborhood & Community Responses

• Sex Worker Rights

• Emotional Health

• Target Assessment & Effective Intervention

• Paradigms, Perspectives & Policies

• Advocacy & Social Action

• Survivor Experiences and Stories

• Law Enforcement Perspectives

• Sex Worker Perspectives 

• Coalition Building and Consciousness Raising

• LGBTQ Perspectives on the Sex Industry