The Path to Recovery: Improving the Response to Contemporary Forms of Slavery for Vulnerable People, Including Internally Displaced People

Virtual event organized on the sidelines of the 48th session of the Human Rights Council

To mark the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for the fight against contemporary slavery and the launch of the annual report forms of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences ,at the Human Rights Council.

United Nations and academia
Tomoya Obokata , Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including their causes and consequences

Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa , Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund to Combat Contemporary Forms of Slavery

Madeline Garlick , Legal Protection Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Katarina Schwarz , Associate Director of the Rights Lab, and Assistant Professor of Anti-Slavery Law and Policy

Civil society
Marinaldo Soares , Survivor and Community Leader (Brazil)

Mariana de la Fuente Gómez , Coordinator, Centro de Defensa de la Vida Carmen Bascaran (Brazil)

Mariana Meshi , Executive Director, Different & Equal (Albania)

Jaya Anil Kumar , Research and Advocacy Manager, Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (Singapore)

Event in English, with interpretation in Arabic, Spanish, French, and Portuguese