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The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons: Protecting Victims, Prosecuting Traffickers
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Date: Thursday, 18 October 2007
Time: 2:00 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT)
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PLEASE NOTE: A transcript of this webchat will be available as soon as possible. We apologize for the delay.
To view a portion of Ambassador Lagon's video chat, please direct your browser to:
http://state.acrobat.com/p54065536/
An estimated 800,000 people annually are trafficked across international borders into slavery, according to the U.S. government, and millions more are trafficked within their own countries. Some estimate the global number of trafficking victims to be in the millions -- used for domestic servitude, sex slavery, forced labor, child soldiers, factory and farm servitude, and other brutal schemes.
The mission of the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) is to nurture a 21st-century abolitionist movement against slavery, emphasizing the three “P's”: prosecuting traffickers, protecting and assisting victims, and preventing trafficking from occurring or continuing.
Please join Ambassador Mark P. Lagon, director of the TIP Office, to discuss ways in which you can help fight modern-day slavery around the world.
Guest Biography: Mark P. Lagon serves as senior advisor to the secretary of state, ambassador-at-large and director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP). His office coordinates U.S. government activities to fight modern-day slavery, including forced labor and sexual exploitation, which affects hundreds of thousands of women, children and men every year. From 2004 to 2007, Lagon was deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, with lead responsibility for U.N.-related human rights and humanitarian issues.
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