Please Join Us – We will be discussing recent articles in Open Democracy by Judy Fudge, and by Martina Vandenberg and Anasuya Syam about the impact of trade bans in supply chains to address forced labor. And we will examine stakeholder responses to penalties for forced labor abuses and violations. It is also very likely we will mention sugar, shrimp, palm oil and tobacco!!
Panelists
Ana Hinojosa
Ana Hinojosa is a former Federal Senior Executive Leader with over 34 years of experience in law enforcement, international trade, international policy development and standard setting and with with the World Customs Organization (WCO) in Brussels, Belgium. Winner of the 2021 Service to America Award for Safety, Security and International Affairs and the People’s Choice Award. 2022 DHS Secretary -Exceptional Service Gold Medal Award recipient. Recently retired from DHS- Customs and Border Protection (CBP)(2021).
She is a seasoned Customs expert and Senior Executive, having served in many leadership positions in Customs for over 30 years. Most recently, she was responsible for directing CBP’s trade threat assessment units, special investigations, and enforcement programs focused on detecting, deterring and disrupting illicit trade, with a special emphasis on forced labor violations, evasion of special tariff cases and modernizing the use of civil penalties to ensure appropriate consequence delivery for non-compliance.
She has provided lectures in various academic institutions and for professional continuing education, including Georgetown Law , Universidad Catolica de Cordoba, and the Naval Postgraduate School. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Texas A&M International, completed an Executive Development Program through Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and a Master in Business Administration from Texas A&M – Commerce. She is now the President and Principal Consultant at ABH Global Trade Consulting LLC. Ana was also selected to serve on the Trade Facilitation Commission in the United Kingdom.
Charity Ryerson
Charity Ryerson is an attorney, legal designer, activist and strategist with two decades of experience fighting corporate abuse around the globe. She is the Executive Director and Founder of Corporate Accountability Lab, where she leads a team of committed advocates who design, prototype and test new strategies to protect the world and her inhabitants from corporate misconduct. Before CAL, Charity litigated complex international human rights cases under the Alien Tort Statute, Torture Victim Protection Act and state tort law. She has extensive experience in labor and human rights monitoring, anti-union violence investigations, and support for labor organizing in Central and South America. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown Law and is admitted to practice in D.C. and Illinois, and before the U.S. Supreme Court. She teaches Business and Human Rights at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and in 2021, she received the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable’s Gwynne Skinner Human Rights Award.
Chavi Keeney Nana
Chavi Keeney Nana is a Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan Law School. She teaches anticorruption law and business and human rights, and supervises students in the Human Trafficking Clinic + Lab. Ms. Nana also serves as the Director of the Equitable Global Supply Chain program at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and is a U.S. Policy Advisor at the Responsible Contracting Project.
As a practitioner, Ms. Nana was Counsel in the New York office of WilmerHale, where she represented major multinational corporations and financial institutions in civil and criminal investigations before the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. She focused her practice on government and internal corporate investigations, including on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); money laundering; and forced labor in supply chains. Her pro bono practice focused on civil litigation on behalf of trafficking victims.
Before joining WilmerHale, Ms. Nana served as the legal and policy assistant to the special gender adviser to the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands. She was also a senior policy officer at the Ministry of Justice, Kingdom of the Netherlands, and focused on issues of immigrant integration, women’s rights, and diversity. Ms. Nana was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, Class of 2000.
Moderator
Duncan Jepson
Director of Strategy and Operations, Praeveni Global
– To read Duncan’s bio please go to <Read Bio Here>
About the Monthly Webinars on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Palermo Protocol on human trafficking, the G20 Interfaith Forum, in conjunction with Praeveni Global, is holding monthly webinars leading to the G20 meeting in South Africa in November.
The webinars bring together current leaders in faith and in the field to discuss the impact to date and the much needed work ahead.
When:
12pm EST/5pmUKT Last Thursday of each month from March to October.
Format:
One hour. Four speakers and one moderator. Conversational style but each speaker speaking for four minutes at the start.
Part 1: Ukraine and Russia:
The Causes of the Conflict, Diplomacy, and Possibilities for Peace
The October 24, 2024 webinar, “Ukraine and Russia: The Causes of the Conflict, Diplomacy, and Possibilities for Peace” explored the historical and more recent causes of the conflict to identify critical junctures where peace was not chosen, and consider ways forward toward peace. The event was co-sponsored by the Group of 78, the G20 Interfaith Forum, and the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation.
Panelists
Professor John Packer
Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; Director, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
Jonathan Granoff, J.D.
President, Global Security Institute; Senior Advisor and Representative to the UN of the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates
Moderator
Audrey E. Kitagawa, J.D.
Founder/President, International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation; President, Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family; Chair, G20 Interfaith Forum Anti-Racism Initiative and Gender Equality Working Group
SPONSORS:
G20 Interfaith Forum | Group of 78 | International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation
Part 2: Ukraine and Russia:
The Increased Nuclear Threat in These Uncertain Times
The February 13, 2025 webinar, “Ukraine and Russia: The Increased Nuclear Threat in These Uncertain Times” will be a part 2 of the Ukraine and Russia webinar series discussing recent causes of the conflict to identify critical junctures where peace was not chosen, and consider ways forward toward peace.
Panelists
Walter Dorn
Professor, Defence Studies, Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) and Canadian Forces College (CFC);
Director, Canadian Pugwash Group
Paul Meyer
Fellow, International Security and Adjunct Professor, International Studies, Simon Fraser University;
Founding Fellow, Outer Space Institute;
Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace;
Director, Canadian Pugwash Group
Moderator
Peggy Mason
President, Rideau Institute on International Affairs;
Board Member, Group of 78;
Vice-Chair, Canadian Pugwash Group;
Advisory Board Member, Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
SPONSORS:
G20 Interfaith Forum | Group of 78 | International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation
