DISCussion on Strategies to Address
Prostitution & Sex Trafficking

Mary Snow is a broadcast journalist who served as a correspondent for CNN's "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" reporting on a wide range of stories from presidential politics to natural disasters. She first started at CNN as a business reporter covering the economy and markets. Mary was also a New York based business correspondent for Al Jazeera America and Yahoo Finance. Other roles have included producing for Bloomberg Television and WPIX-TV in New York where she won two Emmy awards. She is a graduate of Fordham University and is currently teaching broadcast journalism at LIU Post.

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Laurence Rossignol has been Minister of Families, Childhood and Women’s Rights since February 2016. She was the Secretary of State for Families, Children, Senior Citizens and Autonomy to the Minister of Health, Social Affairs and Women’s Rights from April 2015 to February 2016.
Prior to her roles in government, she was Senator of Oise from 2011 to 2014. In 2008, she worked for the Socialist Party and was its spokesperson from 2013 to 2014. She was the National Secretary for the Environment and Sustainable Development from 2008 to 2012.
Laurence Rossignol was Technical Advisor to Frédéric Bredin, then Minister of Youth and Sports, from 1991 to 1993, and Head of Cabinet to Laurent Fabius when he was President of the National Assembly in 1989.

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Rachel Moran is a women’s rights activist, international speaker, journalist and author of the bestselling ‘Paid For - My Journey Through Prostitution.’ She is the founding member of SPACE International (Survivors of Prostitution Abuse Calling for Enlightenment.) She has spoken many times at locations such as Harvard, Columbia University, the Irish Parliament, the British Parliament, the European Parliament and the United Nations in New York. Her journalism has featured in the New York Times, New Statesman, Irish Times, Truthdig and numerous other publications. Her memoir - a work of feminist analysis of the sex trade - is endorsed by human rights activists President Jimmy Carter and Jane Fonda and by feminist activists Gloria Steinem, Catharine MacKinnon and Robin Morgan; also by organisations Historians Against Slavery, Equality Now, Breaking Free, the National Organisation for Women and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. She works in collaboration with organisations across the world towards the goal of confronting and collapsing the global sex trade. Her most recent cause for celebration was the Sexual Offences Bill in the Republic of Ireland, which criminalises the demand for paid sex, and was passed into Irish law on the 14th of February, 2017.

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Taina Bien-Aimé has over two decades of experience defending the rights of women and girls at the national and global level. She is currently the Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), one of the oldest international organizations dedicated to ending trafficking in women and girls and commercial sexual exploitation as practices of gender-based violence. Prior to this position, Taina was the Executive Director of Women’s City Club of New York, an advocacy organization that helps shape policy in New York. She is also a founding Board member of and later served as the Executive Director of Equality Now (2000-2011), an international human rights organization that works to promote the human rights of women and girls. She was Director of Business Affairs/Film Acquisitions at Home Box Office (1996-2000) and practiced international corporate law at the Wall St. law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (1992-1996). Taina holds a Juris Doctor from NYU School of Law and a Licence in Political Science from the University of Geneva/Graduate School of International Studies (Hautes Etudes Internationales) in Switzerland. Taina has received a number of awards for her work, including the NYU Law Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Service in the Public Interest. Taina has extensive media experience, including with the New York Times, Associated Press, Agence France Presse, Reuters, CNN, the Amanpour Show and many other print and television outlets. She is a contributor to the Huffington Post and sits on the Boards of the New York Women’s Foundation and the New York City’s Mayoral Commission on Gender Equity.

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Yves Charpenel is Deputy State Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of France (since 2005) and President of the Scelles Foundation (since 2010), which is an NGO that fights against the system of sexual exploitation and is the largest global research center on sex trafficking and prostitution.
Yves Charpenel is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities, French National Consultative Ethics Committee, Law and Democracy Organization and French Institute for Restorative Justice. In addition, he is the President of the Ethics Commission for the City of Paris and an expert to the European Union and United Nations on organized crime, human trafficking and money laundering. He has authored several books on criminal law and human trafficking, and is regularly called upon to panel for the International Congress. He also provides training to magistrates and journalists on issues related to ethics, organized crime, serial crimes and miscarriages of justice.
Yves Charpenel served as a Prosecutor at the High Court of the Republic from 2009 to 2012. Before then, he was Head of the Strategic Criminal Affairs and Pardon Department of the Ministry of Justice (1998-2001). He has over two decades of experience as a judge and prosecutor in different courts of justice in France and as a magistrate to the French Ministry of Justice (1976-1991, 1993-1998, 2001-2005). He was appointed to the cabinet of two Ministers of Justice between 1991-1993.

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