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Empower women worldwide and fight modern-day slavery.

17-18 NOVEMBER 2015 - LONDON

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Trust Women is committed to find real solutions to empower women and to fight slavery worldwide. The annual event brings together global corporations, lawyers, government representatives, and pioneers in the field of women’s rights and anti-slavery.

The 2014 annual conference brought together 550 global leaders from 50 countries including Brazil, Australia, China, India, Kyrgyzstan and Switzerland. The two-day event reached 65 million people worldwide through extensive media coverage and highly interactive social media engagement.

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Agenda

09:00 - 09:45Welcome & Keynotes

Emma Bonino, Former Italian Foreign Minister

Plenary Sessions

09:45 - 11:15How to keep girls in school

SETTING THE SCENE: Cathy Russell, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues
MODERATOR: Mabel van Oranje, Chair, Girls not Brides
Fiona Mahvinga, Founding member, Camfed Association
Josephine Kulea, Founder and Executive Director, Samburu Girls Foundation (Kenya)
Shabana Basij-Rasikh, Co-founder and President, SOLA- School of Leadership Afghanistan
Sarah Degnan Kambou, President, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Habiba Mohamed, Co-director and Team leader, Centre for Girls’ Education (Nigeria)

11:15 - 11:45Break

11:45- 13:15How to reach the top: fostering women leaders

MODERATOR: Hugo Dixon, Columnist and founder of BreakingViews
Kathy Calvin, President and Chief Executive Officer, United Nations Foundation
Cherie Blair, Lawyer and founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
Jane Moran, Global chief information officer, Unilever

13:15 - 14:15Lunch

14:15 - 15:45Women under extremist rule, from ISIS to Boko Haram

SETTING THE SCENE: Charlie Winter, Senior Researcher, Quilliam Foundation
Christianne Boudreau, Founder, Hayat Canada Family Support
Nazir Afzal, former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West of England
Sherizaan Minwalla, Human Rights lawyer
Raheb Alwany, Syrian doctor and Human Rights defender

15:45 - 16:15Break

16:15 - 17:45Trust Women Actions

FACILITATOR: Jess Search, Chief executive, BRITDOC Foundation
David Risher, CEO, WorldReader
Safeena Husain, Chief executive officer, Educate Girls
Emma Webb, Head of EU University Partnerships, Coursera

17:45 - 18:15Break

18:15 - 18:30Trust Women Hero Award Ceremony

Presented by Her Majesty Queen Noor
The Trust Women Hero Award celebrates an innovator whose bold thinking and high-impact work has helped women defend and advance their rights.

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Speakers

Trust Women brings together world leaders and inspirational campaigners with powerful stories and solutions for change.

Lawyer and founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

President, Challenging Heights

Executive Director, Samburu Girls Foundation

Head of EU University Partnerships, Coursera

President and Chief Executive Officer, United Nations Foundation

Creative Director, Eco Age

Initiator and Chair, Girls Not Brides

Co-founder and President, SOLA- School of Leadership, Afghanistan

President, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

Human Rights lawyer

Founder, Liberty Asia

CEO, Global Fund to End Slavery

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TRUST WOMEN ACTIONS

Trust Women is committed to action. At the conference, delegates commit to find practical solutions to empower women and to fight slavery worldwide.

A financial working group to fight human trafficking

The Thomson Reuters Foundation and the office of the Manhattan District Attorney set up a working group bringing together the biggest financial institutions and law enforcement agencies in the United States to identify and report suspicious transactions linked to human trafficking.

$50 million to step-up the fight against slavery

Humanity United CEO Randy Newcomb announced a $50 million commitment by eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam to support the global fight against human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The commitment doubles an early donation made by the couple in support of the organization.

Shedding light on
“Sextortion”

The International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) and TrustLaw launched a report to raise awareness of ‘sextortion’, a form of corruption in which sex, rather than money, is the currency of the bribe. The report will be used as part of a global awareness campaign.

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