Human trafficking in times of war: Lessons learned in Bosnia

Tuesday, January 24, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
(Pacific)
Bechtel Conference Center
Speaker: 
  • Madeline Rees,
  • Helen Stacy,
  • Katherine Jolluck


Madeline Rees,
Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, began working for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights as the gender expert and Head of Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1998. In that capacity she worked extensively on the rule of law, gender and post conflict, transitional justice and the protection of social and economic rights. The OHCHR office dealt extensively with the issue of trafficking and Madeleine was a member of the expert coordination group of the trafficking task force of the Stability Pact, thence the Alliance against Trafficking. From September 2006 to April 2010 she was the head of the Women`s rights and gender unit.