Room: New York
Sponsor(s)
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Session Description
Human trafficking is a global crime in which people are bought and sold for forced labor or commercial sex. Traffickers use violence, manipulation and false promises of work opportunities or romance to lure, control and exploit their victims, generating billions of dollars per year in illicit profits. Of the estimated 50 million victims worldwide, thousands of girls, boys, women and men are trafficked for sex or labor in Canada.
The good new is that the passenger transportation industry – motorcoach, transit and school transportation – is uniquely positioned to play a role in combating human trafficking by recognizing and reporting potential cases. Join TAT (Truckers Against Trafficking) to learn more about how the industry intersects with human trafficking and how you can play a role in combating this heinous crime. This session will offer new strategies and tools you can deploy to make a difference alongside the thousands of industry professionals that have joined TAT in taking a stand against trafficking in their communities.
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s)
Annie Sovcik is TAT’s senior director of Programs & Strategic Initiatives where she oversees multiple TAT programs designed to educate and equip members of the transportation and energy industries and build public-private partnerships to combat human trafficking. Ms. Sovcik came to TAT in 2018 with over a decade of experience as a human rights lawyer, working on anti-human trafficking, anti-torture, and refugee protection policies at a national and international level. Prior to joining TAT, Ms. Sovcik was the director of the Washington D.C. office of the Center for Victims of Torture. She has also worked as a lawyer with Human Rights First and Global Refuge and as a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Ms. Sovcik is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law and received her B.A. in International Studies from the University of Denver.