To honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., YWCA Greenwich will co-sponsor and host a powerful conversation about the battle against human trafficking.
The program, entitled “Fighting Modern Day Slavery… A conversation about the battle against human trafficking” will take place Thursday, Jan. 11 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the YWCA Greenwich, 259 East Putnam Ave.
International Labour Organization estimates that there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking globally.
In 2016, an estimated 1 out of 6 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely child sex trafficking victims. Of those, 86% were in the care of social services or foster care when they ran. There is no official estimate of the total number of human trafficking victims in the U.S., but Polaris estimates that the total number of victims nationally reaches into the hundreds of thousands when estimates of both adults and minors and sex trafficking and labor trafficking are aggregated.
The community is invited to join the conversation with a panel of experts who care deeply about this issue, are battling every day to expose these crimes, and who will provide insight into what citizens can do to fight this terrible assault on humanity.
To register, send an email to rsvp@ywcagreenwich.org. For questions, contact Joan Mockler at j.mockler@ywcagreenwich.org or call 203-869-6501, ext. 104.
