International Conference on Research and Initiatives against Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
Organization and funding: Open Universiteit, NSCR and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Date: Friday 20 and Saturday 21 May 2022
Venue: Symphony Offices, Zuidas Amsterdam, Netherlands, Hybrid
Language: English spoken
Chair: Beate Völker, Director NSCR
Herman Bolhaar
Janine Janssen
Warner ten Kate
Brian Varma
Alline Pedra Jorge
Beate Volker
Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang
Empower Foundation
Scarlet Alliance
NNSW
PION
PIC
ESWA
Marijke Malsch
Mridula Shobinath
Anna Ekstedt
11.00 – 11.10 Opening & Welcome Secretary of State,
Ministry of Justice and
Security, Netherlands
11.15 – 11.50 1 Ministry of Justice & Security,
Netherlands
11.55 – 12.30 2 Young Offenders and
Victims of Sexual
Exploitation in the
Netherlands
Herman Bolhaar
National Rapporteur on Human
Trafficking and Sexual Violence
Against Children
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.35 – 14.10 3 Violence against Sex Workers:
A Case Study in Netherlands
Janine Janssen
Professor of Anthropology
of Law, Open Universiteit,
Nederland & Professor of
violence in relations of dependency
at Avans University of
Applied Science
14.15 – 14.50 4 Fighting Human Trafficking:
Are all on board?
Warner ten Kate
Public Prosecution Office,
Netherlands
14.50 – 15.00 Tea/Coffee Break
15.05 – 15.40 5 Open Your Eyes in the Fight
Against Human Trafficking
Brian Varma
CoMensha, Dutch Coordination
Centre Against Human
Trafficking, Netherlands
15.45 – 16.20 6 UNODC Initiative to Counter
Trafficking in Persons
Alline Pedra Jorge
Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice Officer, UNODC Vienna
10.00 – 10.10 Second Day Welcome Professor Beate Volker
Director of the Netherlands
Institute for the Study of Crime
and Law Enforcement (NSCR)
10.15 – 10.50 7 A Sisterhood of Hope: How
China’s Transgender Sex Workers
Cope with Intimate Partner
Violence
Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang
Associate Professor, Department
of Social and Behavioural
Sciences, City University of
Hong Kong
10.55 – 12.30 8 Panel on Sex Work and
the Sex Industry
Empower Foundation
(Thailand);
Scarlet Alliance (Australia);
NNSW (India);
PION (Norway);
PIC (Netherlands);
ESWA (Regional)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.35 – 14.10 9 The Role of Clients in
Identifying Forced
Prostitution
Marijke Malsch
Professor of Empirical Legal
Studies, Open Universiteit,
Nederland & Senior Researcher
at NSCR
14.15 – 14.50 10 For the Better or for the Worse?
Impact of Palermo Protocol on
Anti-Trafficking Legislations in
Europe
Mridula Shobinath
PhD Candidate, Open
Universiteit, Nederland/NSCR
14.50 – 15.00 Tea/Coffee Break
15.05 – 15.40 11 The Swedish Experience in
Addressing the Demand and
Trafficking for the Purpose of
Sexual Exploitation
Anna Ekstedt
Swedish Ambassador-at-large
for Combating Trafficking
in Persons
