HLPF 2025 side event: Emerging challenges in human trafficking: risks to gender equality & decent work
A Talk by Livia Wagner , Kristina Amerhauser , HE Ambassador Merete Fjeld Brattested , H.E. Ambassador Leonor Zalabata , Masato Shoji , Delphine Schantz , Luciana Aguiar , Representative and Christine Kirabo
About this Talk
At this year’s HLPF, governments will review SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls; and SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. These goals recognize that ending human trafficking is essential to achieving their aims. Human trafficking has an outsized impact on women and girls, and eliminating it is crucial for achieving SDG 5. In addition, we cannot provide decent work for all while people are forced to work without choice, through coercion and threats. This side event will focus on the SDG 5 and SDG 8 targets relating to human trafficking, assessing trends and emerging challenges. Participants will hear from governments, UN agencies, and civil society organizations about the risks to achieving these goals and how to respond to them.
Moderators
Fund Manager & Vienna Multilateral Representative, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime