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Victim/Survivor Justice: Confronting Sex Trafficking Cases from Thailand to Europe and the United States
28 June, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
From 2016-2021, an international sex trafficking scheme was exposed trafficking hundreds of Thai women across Europe and the US. In 2021, 36 defendants in the US were sentenced for engaging in crimes related to human trafficking. The Thai Community Development Center was the community-based organization working with the US Prosecution and Investigation team and has modeled survivor-centered approaches to social services and access to justice for nearly three decades. Panida Rzonca and Tonya Price will detail lessons learned from the case. The session will include an interactive discussion on how victim service providers as well as law enforcement can work together in a victim-centric and trauma-informed space to ensure justice.
Location; Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82006212704 and FB live @IPSRMahidolUniversity
Tonya Price is an United States HSI Supervisory Special Agent over the human trafficking and child exploitation group, currently representing HSI in Congress. Tonya is a subject matter expert in human trafficking, having investigated over 70 trafficking investigations. She is the lead officer on the Bangkok case. She is also a Peer Support Member, Recruiter, and worked as a certified agent for 10 years.
Panida Rzonca, JD, is Directing Attorney at the Thai Community Development Center where she manages the delivery of comprehensive social and legal services including trauma-informed, culturally, and linguistically appropriate victim’s rights representation and legal services including affirmative immigration relief, labor claims, victims’ rights advocacy, restitution, victim representation in a criminal setting, civil legal assistance, and family reunification. Panida currently serves as a Commissioner on the California Access to Justice Commission.
Moderator: Pattraporn Chuenglertsiri is a lecturer at Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University (IPSR). She has received her master’s degree (MSc) in Social Studies of Gender at Lund University, Sweden and her doctoral degree (Ph.D) in Migration. She is experienced in working on transnational migration, gender issues and marginalised populations.
Simultaneous interpretation will be provided by Bangkok-based freelance journalist Nanchanok Wongsamuth. She was formally a Slavery and Trafficking Correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and is a professional interpreter.
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Organizer
Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University
IPSR was established in 1971 and has become one of Asia’s premier population research and training hubs. The Institute conducts research and provides training in population, sexual and reproductive health and development with a focus on Thailand and on neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia, with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of life for all. For more information, see https://ipsr.mahidol.ac.th.
SEA Junction
SEA Junction, established under the Thai non-profit organization Foundation for Southeast Asia Studies (ForSEA), aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions, from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 408 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center or BACC (across MBK, BTS National Stadium), SEA Junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information, see www.seajunction.org , join the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/1693058870976440/ and follow us on Twitter and Instagram @seajunction
The Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies (IHRP)
is the result of a recent merger between Mahidol University’s Center for Human Rights Studies and Social Development (est. 1998) and the Research Center for Peacebuilding (est. 2004). IHRP combines the experience and perspective both centers have to offer. IHRP is uniquely interdisciplinary and is redefining the fields of peace, conflict, justice and human rights studies, in the Asian Pacific region and beyond. For more information, see https://ihrp.mahidol.ac.th/about-us/
Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women
The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is an Alliance of more than 80 non-governmental organisations from Africa, Asia, Europe, LAC and North America. GAATW sees the phenomenon of human trafficking intrinsically embedded in the context of migration for the purpose of labour. For more information, see https://gaatw.org/
