McGinley-Rice Symposium Looks at Industry of Human Trafficking

The McGinley-Rice Symposium on Justice for Vulnerable Populations will center on human trafficking, a $150 billion industry worldwide.

Hosted by the School of Nursing, The Face of the Person Who Has Been Trafficked will be held tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 25, and Friday, Oct. 26, in the Power Center Ballroom. Registration is required to attend.

“Human trafficking is an international, multibillion-dollar business. But, what a lot of people here in America don’t realize is that it happens in the United States—there’s almost like an ignorance or naivete,” said symposium coordinator Sister Rosemary Donley, S.C., who is the Jacques Laval Endowed Chair for Justice for Vulnerable Populations in the nursing school. “The fortunate thing about it is, human trafficking is preventable,” she said. “But before you can prevent it, you have to know how to recognize it. And it’s there—we can’t just look the other way.”

Topics at the symposium range from the World Wide Web and human trafficking to unaccompanied immigrant children and survivors of trafficking. A detailed agenda is available online.

A special screening of From Liberty to Captivity will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the Pappert Lecture Hall of the Bayer Learning Center. RSVP online to attend.

For more information on The Face of the Person Who Has Been Trafficked, including cost, continuing education and more, visit www.duq.edu/mcginley-rice-symposium.