Thursday, October 1st
12:00-1:15 p.m.
Auditorium
Attorney General, Doug Peterson has stated that “the tragedy of human trafficking is global in scope but is not foreign to Nebraska.” He was successful in leading an effort to have introduced and enacted The Human Trafficking Victims Civil Remedy Act (LB294). The bill was introduced by Senator Jim Scheer from Norfolk and co-sponsored by Senator Patty Pansing Brooks from Lincoln. Speakers will include:
Stephen O’Meara is the Attorney General Office’s Human Trafficking Coordinator. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Iowa and has been actively engaged in the anti-human trafficking movement in both Nebraska and Iowa.
Glen Parks worked with The Amos Fund in India combatting human rights abuses. He assisted in victim rescue and perpetrator prosecution while working in India and co-founded Freedom Firm and served as its Legal Director.
Govinda Tidball is the Executive Director of Human 2020, a civil society and business community initiative to support the global pledge by world’s religious leaders in 2014 to work to end human trafficking by the year 2020.
Anna Williams Shavers is the Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law and the University of Nebraska College of Law. She also serves as a member of the UNL Human Trafficking Conference Planning Team.
More information: http://humantrafficking.unl.edu/
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