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The Annual Metro Luncheon will be early this year so that we can take advantage of a fantastic set of speakers traveling to Omaha to talk about an important issue. Please save Tuesday, July 19th at Champions Run on your calendar. Cost and more information coming soon.
Human Trafficking:
Modern Day Slavery
Summary of the Presentation
Every five seconds, another person enters slavery somewhere in the world. It is estimated that there are over 35 million people in slavery today – more than any other time in history. One minute it might be a fifteen year old girl forced into prostitution, or a young boy forced onto a fishing boat to work 18 hours a day for years without coming to port. To make sense of this crime against humanity, Matt and Sylvia Friedman will offer a compressive update on the State-of-the-Art of human slavery. Matt and Sylvia’s talk will explore the changing human trafficking paradigm; the relationship between human trafficking and slavery; global trends and patterns; new, emerging responses; evolving funding trends; what is working/not working; the role of the private sector; and what is really needed to win the fight. The presentation will offer a glimpse behind the curtain of this terrible human rights abuse – one that is much closer to home than we might expect.
Presenters
Matt Friedman
Matt Friedman is an international human trafficking expert with more than 25 years of experience as a manager, program designer, evaluator, and front-line responder. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of The Mekong Club, an organization made up of Hong Kong-based private sector business leaders who have joined forces to help fight human trafficking in Asia. Matt was the Regional Project Manager of the U.N.
Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in Thailand from 2006-2012. He has presented to the United Nations, the World Bank, U.S. State Department and the Vatican. He has been featured in news coverage by the NY Times, BBC, National Geographic, and CNN among other publications.
Sylvia Yu Friedman
Sylvia Yu is a Hong Kong-based award-winning Canadian journalist, TV anchor, documentary producer, book author and advisor to philanthropists. She was the winner of the prestigious 2013 International Human Rights Press Award (TV Special Merit) for her series on human trafficking and slavery in China, Hong Kong and Thailand. Sylvia has managed and directed more than US$9 million to humanitarian projects since 2005 that have impacted at the very least more than one million people.
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