Beyond Villains, Victims & Saviours: Human Trafficking On The Prairies - on-line webinar

Beyond Villains, Victims & Saviours: Human Trafficking On The Prairies

17 May @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

In this session, members of a project team assembled by Hope Restored Canada, will be discussing a research project, funded by Prairieaction Foundation, focused on domestic human trafficking of women and girls within and across the three provinces of the prairies (Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba). While human trafficking is currently presented as an unproblematic subject of policy, decades of feminist intersectional and anti-racist research have documented the harms that this framework can reproduce if not analyzed critically.

The team approached the project with an intersectional, feminist, decolonizing, trauma-informed perspective and utilized a community-focused model of research that emphasizes agency and capacity building. At the same time, the research team co-constructed, with input from key stakeholders, an evaluation framework for future programming and a model of prevention, education and support built on adequate and rigorous evidence.

The panelists are:

Joeline Magill, Executive Director of Hope Restored

Gwen Dueck, Independent Consultant & Board Chair of Hope Restored

Dr. Julie Kaye, Author of Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance Among Indigenous and Racialized Women

Dr. Manuela Valle-Castro, Activist, Scholar and Educator

Taylor Bassingthwaite, Coach, Facilitator, Researcher, and Teacher

Event Itinerary:

9:00am: Raising Awareness for Human Trafficking with Hope Restored

10:00am: Key Findings from Hope Restored Research

10:30am: Break

10:45am: Panel Discussion

11:45am: Q & A

Register here

This event is in partnership with Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan as part of Sexual Violence Awareness Week from May 16-20, to learn more about this year’s awareness campaign and how to get involved visit sassk.ca/SVAW