The Law, Race and Gender Research Unit invites you to a seminar by Helen Stacy, titled "US Approaches to Human Trafficking". All are welcome to attend!

Date: Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Time: 12h00 - 14h00

Venue: Criminology Seminar Room, Level 6, Kramer Law Building, Middle Campus, UCT

RSVP: For catering purposes, please RSVP to Sue Wright via e-mail or at 021 650 5906.

Professor Helen Stacy is the Director of Stanford University's Program on Human Rights in the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. She was appointed a full time Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies after holding joint appointments at FSI and Stanford Law School. An Australian lawyer and scholar of international and comparative law, legal philosophy, and human rights, Professor Stacy began teaching at Stanford Law School in 2002.

As Director of the Program on Human Rights (PHR) at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Professor Helen Stacy has recently launched a research initiative on human trafficking to generate new knowledge on this issue of international concern.

Professor Stacy will discuss the growing attention to human trafficking and the particular policy challenges facing both federal and state action in the United States to combat trafficking. Professor Stacy will examine the issues that frame the US government's understanding of human trafficking within its Trafficking in Person's Report and more broadly within public discourse. With a looming federal election in November 2012 where both major political parties seek the high ground on issues of immigration and prostitution, the debate is inevitably politicised. At the same time, real solutions seem evasive. Professor Stacy will analyse these vectors of the domestic debate and their implications for international action.