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The Fight Against Human Trafficking: International Cooperation, Challenges and Achievements

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T. March Bell Date: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 Time: 9:00 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) View Webchat Transcript

Human trafficking is a heinous crime that affects thousands of people around the world through enslavement and forced labor. To help the victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, comprehensive policies are necessary to fight the crime but also to treat the victim for sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Please join T. March Bell for a discussion of the global effort to reduce the scourge of global trafficking and initiatives to curb the crime and assist its victims.

Guest Biography: T. March Bell serves as senior special counsel for trafficking issues within the civil rights division of the Office of the U.S. Attorney General to provide policy leadership on program design and cases that involve human trafficking. Bell also serves as the Department of Justice's (DoJ) peer design representative for the president’s $50 million eight-nation initiative on trafficking in persons. Before joining DoJ, Bell served as vice president for an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) where he pioneered and designed law enforcement intervention and after-care models for victims of forced prostitution in the developing world, including the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, India and West Africa.