Date: 11 May
Time: 10:00 – 2:00pm
Venue: Phoenix Boardroom, Maynooth University (North Campus), Kildare
Maynooth University Department of Law is delighted to invite you to a half-day conference on Severe Labour Exploitation and Human Trafficking in Ireland.
The conference brings together academic experts, legal practitioners, state bodies, and civil society actors to highlight legal and practical aspects of severe labour exploitation and human trafficking in Ireland. It will examine the interaction of criminal law, employment law and immigration law in this complex field; focussing on recent developments within the Council of Europe framework as well as in domestic law and policy.
The programme includes a presentation on the findings of an Irish Research Council-funded project on the needs and perspectives of labour trafficking victims in Ireland. The final session will be a roundtable discussion on how the challenges around severe labour exploitation can be tackled going forward.
Confirmed participants include:
Professor Siobhán Mullally (Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights NUIG; Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission; President of the Council of Europe Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking (GRETA))
Dr Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University, Sweden)
Professor Gillian Wylie (Trinity College Dublin)
Colin Smith BL Department of Justice Anti-Human Trafficking Unit Migrant Rights Centre Ireland International Transport Workers’ Federation
CPD points available
Free to attend, but registration essential.
To RSVP or for any queries please contact: law@mu.ie