UN Human Trafficking Webcast Available for Viewing Worldwide

UN Human Trafficking Webcast Available for Viewing Worldwide Reservations are now closed for "Combating Slavery in the 21st Century," a conference scheduled for Wednesday, April 9, 2014, from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EST at the United Nations in New York City. The event is a collaboration between the Government Law Center at Albany Law School, the United Nations Academic Impact, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. The forum, to be simulcast to high schools and colleges throughout the world through the auspices of United Nations Academic Impact, will address not only the lasting vestiges of traditional forms of slavery and indentured servitude, but also contemporary issues of child, labor and sex trafficking. Panel topics will include "Slavery in the 21st Century: Continuing Impact, Lasting Vestiges and Modern Forms," and "Tactics of the Modern Abolitionists." For those who can't be at the United Nations but wish to view the proceedings remotely, at the time of the event please log on to www.webtv.un.org. # # # The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government is the public policy research arm of the State University of New York. The Institute conducts fiscal and programmatic research on American state and local governments. Journalists can find useful information on the Newsroom page of our Web site, www.rockinst.org.