Physicians for Human Rights presents two events on Human Trafficking:
1. Film Screening:
Carissa (20 min)
Tuesday, February 17th, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Hammer Rm. 310
Dinner will be served
Carissa is a short documentary about a young girl who was a victim of sex trafficking in Fresno, California. She was able to turn her life around and is now a national spokesperson on the issue of youth homelessness and sex trafficking. Come hear her story. Director David Sauvage. http://carissaproject.com
Free dinner and screening, followed by a short discussion activity.
2. Speaker:
Florrie Burke*, M.Ed., MA, LMFT
Wednesday, February 18th, Noon – 1 p.m.
Hammer Rm. 324
Lunch will be served
Florrie Burke will be discussing trafficking and modern day slavery, using a human rights approach, and illustrating with cases from NY. She will also address the importance of medical professionals as intermediaries and as responders to trafficked victims' health needs.
**Please RSVP for each event to fwc2109@columbia.edu so there is enough food for everyone.**
*Bio: Florrie Burke, M.Ed., MA, LMFT, is a consultant on Modern Day Slavery to both governmental and non governmental agencies. She was most recently the Senior Director of International Programs at Safe Horizon in New York City where she oversaw both the Anti-Trafficking Program and Solace Program for Survivors of Torture and Refugee Trauma. She is a founding member and currently the Coordinator of the Freedom Network Training Institute and trains social service providers, law enforcement and government entities across the country. She has done extensive training and consultation on Human Trafficking issues, trauma and torture both nationally and internationally. Ms. Burke is a current Co-Chair of the Freedom Network USA, a nationwide group of social and legal service providers working with survivors of human trafficking. Ms. Burke has served as an Expert Witness on several high profile cases of Human Trafficking. She is a member of the Expert Initiative on Human Trafficking at the UNODC in Vienna and is part of three working groups developing materials for first responders and others who may encounter Human Trafficking. Ms. Burke has been working with trafficked persons since 1997 when she designed and implemented specialized social services to sixty deaf Mexicans who were held in slavery in a peddling ring in NYC. Ms. Burke also designed and implemented a model for Community Trauma Response following the attacks on September 11th. In 2007 Ms. Burke received the National Crime Victims Recognition Service Award from the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime and was honored by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor and was awarded the Annual Paul and Sheila Wellstone Award by the Freedom Network USA
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Watching the documentary "Carissa" was an eye-opening experience for me because it took the story of human trafficking one step further. Carissa is a woman who not only got out of the cycle of violence and control but decided to give back to the community and to people, young women, who are having the same experiences. She is not hiding from her past, but using her life story to reach out and help others.
I also liked that it was the story of domestic human trafficking-so many times I just think about the problem as an international one. . . but there are people here in the U.S., here in New York who are being trafficked every day.
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