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DESCRIPTION:An O’Brien Fellows in Residence seminar\, With Dr. Olivia Smith
 \n\nIn-person and online. sharon.webb [at] mcgill.ca (Registration require
 d!)\n\nAbout the talk\n\nThe Ministry of Public Security reports of 2021 s
 how that human trafficking in Canada increased while the number of prosecu
 tion of cases remain low. Progress in combatting human trafficking has bee
 n sidelined due to the COVID 19 pandemic and there is urgent need to repri
 oritize addressing the crime of human trafficking.  A Country Assessment h
 as identified that (1) successful actions against human trafficking in Can
 ada largely depends on law enforcement agencies (2) the perceptions and st
 ereotyping of the crime and victims by law enforcement is too often result
 ing in the under identification or misidentification of the crime and its 
 victims (3) the impact the perceptions of law enforcement officers  have o
 n the  interpretation and application of the provincial and  national laws
  on human trafficking in Canada and in  Ontario in  specific.  \n\nAbout t
 he speaker\n\nOlivia Smith is an O’Brien Fellow in Residence at the Centre
  for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism researching in the areas of human tr
 afficking and migration.  \n\nShe is a Consultant on labour migration and 
 human trafficking and the Executive Director for the Caribbean Anti Human 
 Trafficking Foundation. She has worked with several regional and internati
 onal institutions including the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initi
 ative (ABA ROLI) as Project Lead on Trafficking in Persons (Barbados) and 
 with The British Institute of International and Comparative Law Institute 
 (BIICL) as National Consultant on Human Trafficking in Guyana. At CARICOM 
 Secretariat she served as Deputy Programme Manager\, Free Movement and Lab
 our. She was a Political Specialist at the US Embassy\, Barbados\, the Hum
 an Resources Development Expert for the European Union Delegation to Barba
 dos\, a Lecturer at the University of the West Indies in migration studies
  and served for ten years as an Immigration Officer\, Government of Barbad
 os.\n\nDr. Smith holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master of Business
  Administration among other qualifications. She is a Past Fellow of the Un
 iversity of Oxford in forced migration.\n\nFor registration or sharon.webb
  [at] mcgill.ca (more information.)\n
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LOCATION:Online - In person
SUMMARY:The Impact of Law Enforcement Agencies’ Perceptions on Human Traffi
 cking in Canada
URL:/law/channels/event/impact-law-enforcement-agencie
 s-perceptions-human-trafficking-canada-339068
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