Promoting a Human Rights Response to Slavery and
Trafficking in Australia
Court Room Observers, Faculty of Law UTS: 2009
On Wednesday, 15 April 2009, Anti-Slavery Project (ASP) hosted
another very successful Court Room Observer Information Session. Law Lecturer
Robyn Pettit ably led the discussion again this year and hopes to meet us for
a further session at a later date.
High Court Hearing Canberra: 13-14 May 2008
In 2006 in the Victorian County Court Wei Tang, a Victorian
woman, was found guilty of possessing and using a slave and sentenced to 10
years of imprisonment with a non-parole period of 6 years.
When this story broke, Jennifer Burn (Director of the
Anti-Slavery Project) was approached by the ABC to make a comment. Her
texts are available as follows:
Outback truckies trade in child sex, drugs: 13 March 2008
It is important to realise that the movement or transfer
of children through abuse of a position of vulnerability or fraud or deception
for the purposes of exploitation is trafficking. In a bid to stop girls
as young as eight years of age from being paid for sex, Aboriginal elders
in Boggabilla and Moree convinced young women with first hand experience
in the truck stop trade to speak to Lateline.
Vienna Forum Mentioned in Australian Senate: 12 March
2008
On Wednesday, 12 March 2008, Liberal Senator ELLISON (Western
Australia) drew the Senate’s attention to the Vienna Forum and its implications
for Australian initiatives against human trafficking.
December Human Trafficking and Slavery in Australia: What Community
Organisations Need To Know.
Workshop on December 5, Sydney - please download
booking form [Word document] for further information.
June
24-29 June Zonta
2006 Convention Workshop on Trafficking
May
18 May 10am-12pm, Sydney Area Community Response Network to assist trafficked
and enslaved persons monthly meeting
University of Technology Sydney Haymarket Campus
Room 5B328
RSVP to Eveline Crotty
April
27 April 10:00am and 7:30pm (two meetings)
Melbourne Area Good Shepherd Social Justice Network Trafficking Meetings
261 Victoria St Abbotsford 3067
Contact Monica Weedon
Anti-Slavery Project, University of
Technology Sydney
Faculty of Law, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007 AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-2-9514 9662 Fax: +61-2-9514 9685
Human Trafficking and Slavery in Australia: What Community
Organisations Need To Know. 