International & Cross-Border Issues Workshops
Working to Empower Victims of Human Trafficking
Lauri B. Ogumoro and Sister Stella Mangona
Workshop 7G
Date & Time: Wednesday, 2:50 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 2
Human trafficking reaches every corner of the world, even idyllic tropical islands. How our serving victims of domestic violence lead us to serve victims of human trafficking. We will share our successes, strategies, and challenges of victim centered collaboration that leads to empowering victims of human trafficking to become survivors.
Learning Objectives: (1) Get an overview of human trafficking. (2) Identifyinsuccessesg, strategies and the challenges of providing direct services to victims of trafficking. (3) Understanding the importance of positive collaboration with law enforcement and community partners while remaining victim-centered. (4) Empowering victims of human trafficking to become survivors - despite limited resources. (5) Get answers to questions/discussion.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment, Immigrant Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Services, Trafficking
Country: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Living Across Borders, Living Across Cultures: Challenges of Being in the U.S. and Addressing Violence Against Women in Home Country
Ho-Thanh Bang Nguyen and Tonya Lovelace
Workshop 10F
Date & Time: Thursday, 11:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake G
This workshop will discuss the voyage of Ho-Thanh Nguyen to the US as a refugee from Vietnam and her ongoing quest to return home and raise awareness about violence against women in her home country. Tonya Lovelace of Women of Color Network will provide an overview of the commitment and support that national organizations of color can offer in addressing international concerns.
Learning Objectives: (1) Differences in culture between US and Vietnam. (2) Challenges in addressing and translating violence against women across the lifespan in both countries. (3) The unique needs of refugees and ways that US national groups can support refugee and immigrant populations.
Keywords: Immigrant Survivors/Victims, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders Working with Underserved
Country: United States of America
Domestic Violence & Women with Insecure Immigration Status
Dr Sundari Anitha, Priya Chopra and Sherizaan Minwalla
Workshop 1A
Date & Time: Tuesday, 10:05 – 11:05
Room: Maryland Ballroom
This workshop draws upon research conducted by Saheli, a UK-based shelter for South Asian women, to examine domestic violence faced by women with insecure immigration status. It will discuss some of the challenges faced by survivors, service providers and activists in the context of particular state immigration and welfare policies.
Learning Objectives: (1) Enable representatives of shelters to engage with creative ways of supporting women who experience domestic violence in the context of insecure immigration status. (2) Explore aspects of inter-agency working and practical solutions to common problems in very diverse contexts of the different countries. (3) Identify common strategies to campaign and lobby for a change in legislation so that women receive the support they need to live a life free of violence.
Keywords: Housing for Survivors/Victims, Immigrant Survivors/Victims, Research/Evaluation,Campaigning for Change
Country: England and United States of America
Cause of Death: Woman, Launch of a Journalistic Report on Violence Against Women in 10 Different Countries
Carina Ohlsson, Kerstin Weigl, Linda Forsell and Karin Alfredsson
Workshop 3H
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.
Room : National Harbor 3
Our innovative project gave voice to murdered women through photographic stories. Through the eyes of ten who died because they were women, we demonstrate different expressions of gender-based violence around the world. Our journey took us to ten countries exploring reasons behind violence, effects on health, economic consequences, successful anti-violence projects, and police and judicial system responses.
Learning Objectives: (1) Be able to access and use free miniature exhibitions of this project to bring voice to survivors and awareness to gender-based violence. (2) Gain a wider perspective on the topic of violence against women, as well as additional support in addressing violence in their own countries.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Sexual Violence,Working with Governments, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders
Country: Sweden
Features of Assistance to Domestic Violence Victims in Post-Soviet Countries with Transitional Economies
Workshop 5D
Date & Time: Wednesday, 9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 6
This workshop will explore how mentality is the first problem; absence of civil society, firm stereotypes regarding the role of women in family and society, hypocritical attitude of society towards the DV problem and denial of existence of such problem, which in its turn leads to denial on all levels.
Learning Objectives: (1) How to survive and to strengthen an organization’s capability to assist to women victims of domestic violence in post-soviet countries.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Program/Shelter Services, Working with Abusers/Batterers, Domestic Violence
Country: Armenia
Examining Safe Shelter Models in Humanitarian Aid Contexts
Kim Thuy Seelinger and Abigail Erikson
Workshop: 6J
Date & Time: Wednesday, 10:40 a.m.- 12:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 5
This session explores safe shelters in forced displacement. Participants will learn about a new study focused on safe shelter design and operation in refugee camps. They will also learn more about models and best practices emerging on the Thai-Burma border. We will discuss the challenges and lessons learned in these complex settings.
Learning Objectives: (1) Gain knowledge on models, design and challenges of operating safe shelters in refugee camp contexts. (2) Learn about actual practice of delivering safe shelter services, including comparative findings on shelters’ challenges and practices in multiple humanitarian contexts.
Keywords: Housing for Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Services, Research/Evaluation, Sexual Violence, Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders
Country: United States of America
International Child Abduction
Pamela M. Brown and Paula Lucas
Workshop 1C
Date & Time: Tuesday, 10:05 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Room: Chesapeake E
Increasing numbers of parents abduct children across borders. Some are victims fleeing family violence; others are abusers seeking to punish the other parent. This workshop will introduce participants to the legal tools relied on to recover children and how those tools can offer both promise and pain to family violence survivors.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn the remedies available to women whose abusers have abducted their children across international borders. (2) Learn how to properly counsel survivors on their options should they contemplate fleeing across international borders with their children.
Keywords: Parental Abduction, Cross-border Legal Remedies
Country: United States of America
