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Combating trafficking involves two dimensions, Burni said. Increasing police power alone ignores the other dimension--the human rights of the trafficking victims, she said...
...Samya Burni, director of the trafficking program for Human Rights Watch of New York; Laura Lederer, research director of the Kennedy School's Protection Project of the Women and Public Policy Program; Marsha Liss, trial attorney for the child exploitation and obscenity section of the criminal division in the U.S. Department of Justice; Frederick Schauer, academic dean of the Kennedy School and principal investigator for the Protection Project and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) spoke at the panel...
According to Burni, trafficking involves the abduction and trickery of women into prostitution, domestic service and sweatshop labor...
...illegality of prostitution adds to the marginalization of trafficked women," Burni answered...
...Burni called for national legal systems to put in place rights for victims that would allow them to redress their victimizers. "The laws in place now result in the victims getting treated like returnable goods--sending them back to where they came from--instead of human rights victims," she said...
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