As part of her work within the
Youth Peace Ambassadors Network at the
Council of Europe, Karen Pong organised and hosted, in partnership with
The American University of Paris, the
Youth Against Human Trafficking: How Students Can Get Involved in Prevention Conference on 11 April 2013. The aim of this conference is to promote on-campus awareness-raising as an effective and powerful tool for young people in human trafficking prevention and to inspire all university students and youth to become motivated and committed advocates and activists of human trafficking prevention.
| | Human Trafficking is a Human Rights Violation |
| | Criminal Intelligence and Human Trafficking presented by Jesper Lund, Criminal intelligence Officer at Interpol |
| | The Role of Education in Prevention presented by His Excellency Mr Robert Zeldenrust, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands  | robert_zeldenrust.mp3 | | File Size: | 8611 kb | | File Type: | mp3 |
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| | Youth Participation in Civil Society |
The Youth Against Human Trafficking: How Students Can Get Involved in Prevention Conference was prepared for university students, both undergraduate and graduate, in order to educate, inspire, and inform about the major issues that are part of trafficking as a human rights abuse. The project is meant to engage students about a human rights issue, which affects an inordinate number of women, men, and children around the world today. American University of Paris students and alumnus, in partnership with the MA in Law department, have brought together an event on how youth can be involved in prevention, education, and potential career opportunities in human trafficking prevention. We are proud to be a part of this special event.
 Karen Pong is a member of the Youth Peace Ambassador Network, created out of the Council of Europe Youth Department's Youth Peace Ambassador Programme in April 2011. Since graduating from The American University of Paris in 2009 with a degree in International Affairs and International Economics and a minor in International Law, the eternal struggle against human trafficking has become her field of interest and the object of her professional vocation. She has participated in numerous international youth initiatives and conferences with a long-term goal to join Interpol’s Sub-Directorate for Trafficking in Human Beings as a Criminal Intelligence Officer. Karen recently created an NGO, YAHTE, that fosters youth participation in human trafficking prevention.
|  Jesper Lund is a Criminal Intelligence Officer of Interpol in the Trafficking of Human Beings Subdirectorate. He has been involved in the Subdirectorate of the General Secretariat for over two years and began working with Interpol and Europol at the Danish National Centre of Investigation in 2008. He first became involved in human trafficking through his efforts from 2000-2007 at the Copenhagen Airport, specializing in Immigration, people Smuggling, and Trafficking in Human Beings.
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 Robert Zeldenrust is the ambassador and permanent delegate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to UNESCO. Ambassador Zeldenrust took the initiative to organize, together with UNESCO, a seminar on prevention of human trafficking through education programs in 2012. This originated from his experience as a member of the Dutch national Task Force against Human Trafficking (2009-2011). Prior to this, he was ambassador of the Netherlands to Lebanon, where he was confronted with cases of exploitation of Asian women and girls.
|  Ghofran Ounissi is a Jurist and member of Advisory Council on Youth, Council of Europe. She is also the representative of FEMYSQ (Forum of Muslim Youth and Students Organization), the largest European platform of all Muslim youth organizations.
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If you have read some of the other pieces on this blog, you may have noticed the style and voice of this piece is different. As a video editing project, this piece fits more into Artemsia's Vibrations, which is about my creative projects, than Ruby Starfire Wanderlust, which is more about travel. The normal style and voice for Artemsia's Vibrations is inappropriate for this subject matter, so it was decided to take a more professional approach.
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