HUMAN TRAFFICKING

THROUGH THE LENS OF CIVIL SOCIETYThis Briefing will raise awareness and present NGOs with the tools andresources to take a stand against human trafficking
Thursday, 19 November 2015
11 a.m. — 1 p.m.
ECOSOC Chamber
MODERATOR

Maher Nasser—Director, Outreach Division, Department of Public Information
PRESENTERS

Ashley Marinaccio—Co-Founder and Director, Girl Be Heard

Tim Ballard—Founder and CEO, Operation Underground Railroad

Taina Bien-Aimé—Executive Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Malea Otranto—End Trafficking Fellow,U.S. Fund for UNICEF

Simone Monasebian—Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Ian Urbina—Investigative Reporter, The Outlaw Ocean Series, The New York Times
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

Girl Be Heard—Nonprofit Theatre Company
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MODERATOR

Maher Nasser, Director, Outreach Division,Department of Public Information

SPEAKERS

Tim Ballard, Founder and CEO,Operation Underground Railroad

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Maher Nasser is the Director of the Outreach Division in the United Nations
Department of Public Information (DPI) in New York. Mr. Nasser has over 27
years of work experience in the United Nations System during which he worked invarious capacities in Gaza, Jerusalem, Amman, Cairo, Vienna and New York. He
became Director of DPI’s Outreach Division in February 2011. From April to midAugust 2012 and from August 2014 to February 2015, Mr. Nasser was Acting Headof the United Nations Department of Public Information. Mr. Nasser first joined
DPI in January 2006 as Director of the UN Information Centre in Cairo. Before
joining DPI, Mr. Nasser worked in various positions with the UN Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza, Jerusalem,Vienna, Amman and New York and with the UNODC in Vienna. After graduating as acivil engineer from Bir Zeit University near Ramallah in 1986, Mr. Nasser workedwith two Jerusalem-based NGOs focusing on development and human rights. Mr.
Nasser also attended the Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid in October 1991
and the subsequent bilateral negotiations in Washington DC as the personalassistant to Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi, the Head of the Palestinian Negotiating Team.

Timothy Ballard is the Founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad(O.U.R.). Ballard began his career at the Central Intelligence Agency where heworked cases dealing with terrorism and Latin America. He has spent over a
decade working as a Special Agent for the Department of Homeland Security
where he was assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force anddeployed as an undercover operative for the U.S. Child Sex Tourism Jump Team.

He has worked every type of case imaginable in the fight to dismantle childtrafficking rings. Mr. Ballard has worked undercover in the United States and in
multiple foreign countries to infiltrate child trafficking organizations. In this effort
he has successfully dismantled dozens of these organizations and rescued
countless children from sex slavery. He is an expert at managing Internet
investigations, particularly those dealing with file-share networks wherepedophiles and traffickers go to trade in child pornography. He has trained
hundreds of law enforcement officers at home and abroad in best practices toliberate children from sex slavery.

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Taina Bien-Aimé, Executive Director,
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

Malea Otranto, End Trafficking Fellow,
U.S. Fund for UNICEF

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Taina Bien-Aimé is the Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking inWomen (CATW), one of the oldest international organizations dedicated to ending
trafficking in women and girls and commercial sexual exploitation as practices ofgender-based violence and discrimination.
Prior to this position, Ms. Bien-Aimé was the Executive Director of Women's CityClub of New York, an advocacy organization that helps shape policy in New York.
She is also a founding Board member of and later served as the Executive
Director of Equality Now (2000-2011), an international human rights organizationthat works to promote the human rights of women and girls. She was Director of
Business Affairs/Film Acquisitions at Home Box Office (1996-2000) andpracticed international corporate law at the Wall St. law firm, Cleary Gottlieb
Steen & Hamilton (1992-1996).
Ms. Bien-Aimé holds a Juris Doctor from NYU School of Law and a Licence in
Political Science from the University of Geneva/Graduate School of International
Studies in Switzerland. Ms. Bien-Aimé is a contributor to the Huffington Post, sitson the Boards of the New York Women’s Foundation and the New York City’s
Mayoral Commission on Gender Equity.

Malea Otranto currently works on the End Trafficking Project at UNICEF USA as
the End Trafficking Fellow, seeking to raise awareness and educate communities
about trafficking in the United States. During her role, Ms. Otranto has educatedand mobilized more than 10,000 community members, students, and activists
around the issue of trafficking through pubic speaking engagements all acrossthe country. She has advocated for New York State trafficking legislation, led
human trafficking 101 trainings and workshops, spoken on multiple panel
discussions, and has been a Keynote Speaker during her time at UNICEF USA.
Prior, Ms. Otranto had the privilege of working at Polaris, one of the leading antitrafficking organizations in the world. While there, she facilitated public speaking
workshops with survivors of human trafficking, conducted extensive research on
illicit Asian massage parlors and Asian sex trafficking networks across the UnitedStates, and served as a Call Specialist for the National Human Trafficking
Resource Center.
Although her current focus relates to human trafficking within the United States,
Ms. Otranto has spent a year working internationally on the issue of trafficking inEurope and South Africa with marginalized and at risk youth. Ms. Otranto holds aBachelor’s degree in Law and Society from American University with aconcentration in Human Rights Advocacy.

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Simone Monasebian, Director,
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Simone Monasebian is currently the Director of the New York Office of the UnitedNations Office on Drugs and Crime (“UNODC”). UNODC is the guardian of the U.N.
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, and manager ofthe UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children. Ms. Monasebian coordinated the UN Secretariat’s
negotiations of the landmark UN Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking inPersons adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2010. She has also served as an
Adjunct Professor of Human Trafficking and the Law, and International Criminal
Law at Seton Hall Law School’s Zanzibar and Cairo programs. Ms. Monasebian has
additionally served as CourtTV’s on a air legal analyst on international criminal
trials and terrorism, and as Principal Defender at the Special Court for Sierra
Leone, as well as Trial Attorney at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda, where she was one of the prosecutors responsible for the 2003
landmark convictions of three media executives who fanned the flames of
genocide in their newspaper and radio station. Ms. Monasebian’s work wasprominently profiled in the book: “Justice on The Grass: Three Rwandan
Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption” byDina Temple-Raston (2005). In the 1990s, Ms. Monasebian practiced law in a New
York firm specializing in complex national and international criminal and humanrights matters. Ms. Monasebian began her professional career in the early
1980s, as one of the first journalists to cover hip hop culture and rap music.

Ian Urbina, Investigative Reporter,
The Outlaw Ocean Series,
The New York Times

Ian Urbina is an investigative reporter for The New York Times based in theWashington Bureau. His investigations most often focus on worker safety and theenvironment. Mr. Urbina was initially a reporter on the Times' Metro desk. In2005, Mr. Urbina moved to the Times' national desk to become its Mid-Atlantic
Bureau chief, where he covered West Virginia coal mining disasters, the Gulf oilspill, the Virginia Tech shootings and numerous other breaking stories. Hebecame a senior investigative reporter for the National Desk in 2010, where hewrote a series in 2011, Drilling Down, about the oil and gas industry and fracking.
On worker safety, in 2013, he wrote a story about longterm exposure tohazardous chemicals and the federal agency, O.S.H.A., which is responsible forprotecting against these workplace threats. For the New York Times Magazine, hewrote in 2014 a piece called "The Secret Life of Passwords", about the anecdotes
and emotions hidden in everyday web-user's "secure" passwords. In 2015, Mr.
Urbina wrote a series, "The Outlaw Ocean" ,described as a "dramatic exposé
about the chronic and widespread violence, oppression and lawlessness thatexists out in the open ocean": www.nytimes.com/oceans.
Before joining The New York Times in 2003, Mr. Urbina was in a doctoralprogram in history and anthropology at the University of Chicago, where hespecialized on Cuba. As a Fulbright scholar he did his doctoral dissertation
research in Havana. During these years, he wrote for various publications,
including Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, Middle East Report, and many others.

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SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

Ashley Marinaccio is a director, writer, performer and photographer who
creates work that challenges the status quo. She is dedicated todocumenting the socio-political issues that define our times. Her theatrical
work has been seen off-Broadway, at TED conferences, The White House, The
Apollo, United Nations and on tour throughout the United States and Europe.
She is a co-founder/director of Girl Be Heard (girlbeheard.org) and Co-Op
Theatre East (cooptheatreeast.org). Ashley holds her M.A. in Performance
Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and BA in theatre directing andsociology/anthropology with minors in women/gender and Middle Easternfrom Pace University.Ashley is on the faculty of Pace University's Performing
Arts School. Learn more: here www.ashley-marinaccio.comAshley Marinaccio, Co-Founder and Director,
Girl Be Heard

Girl Be Heard (GBH) based in New York City uses theatre as a vehicle toempower young women to become brave, confident, socially conscious
leaders while exploring their own challenging circumstances. GBH specializes
in creating safe spaces where girls can talk about the issues that are mostimportant to them, and providing a platform where they can speak out forchange. Girl Be Heard has been featured on MTV, VH1, Huffington Post, theUnited Nations, NY International Fringe Festival and in middle and highschools, colleges and venues across the world. For more information,
visit girlbeheard.org.

Girl Be Heard (GBH)

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TWITTER H@NDLES

Maher Nasser @MaherNasser1962

Ashley Marinaccio @Ashmarinaccio @GirlBeHeard
Tim Ballard @TBBallard1 @OURrescue

Taina Bien-Aimé @tainabienaime @CATWIntl

Malea Otranto @Malea___ @unicefUSA @endtraffic
Simone Monasebian @UNODC

Ian Urbina @ian_urbina @nytimes

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.)

ourrescue.org

The End Trafficking Project at UNICEF USA

unicefusa.org/mission/protect/trafficking/end
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women(CATW)
www.catwinternational.org

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC)
unodc.org

The New York Times Series "The Outlaw Ocean"nytimes.com/oceans
Girl Be Heard

girlbeheard.org

Co-Op Theatre East

cooptheatreeast.org

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