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Modern Slavery is caused by economic hardship and lack of empathy. When we buy new clothes with tags in Thrift stores of Lithuania, pay low prices for parts of new cars or acquire electronics, jewelery or perfume at a fraction of the cost on the internet, do we ever stop and think where all those goods came from?
In many cases, they are stolen in Western Europe by the Lithuanian youth from socially disadvantaged families who are tricked into crime for a pair of sneakers or a few Euros. As long as we continue buying those goods, this youth will keep steeling and getting into jails, and we will continue supporting the correctional system with our own tax money.
Institutions of Great Britain, when dealing with Modern Slavery, often help out Lithuanian citizens, pushed into Human Trafficking. Experts from Great Britain will kindly share their expertise with Lithuanian institutions.
Thank you, Martyn Cushing, Deputy Head of Mission in the British Embassy in Vilnius, for making the Kazickas Family Foundation's idea a reality and organizing the Discussion which will be help September 22, 2017 at the Ministry of Justice in Vilnius!
Discussions will be held by: Andy Pearce, UK Chargé d’Affaires; Kristina Misiniene, KOPŽI center director; Lauren Meyer, Thompson Reuters Foundation representative; Jake Kraft, representative of the UK Government's Legal Aid Assistance Unit; Zubier Yazdani, partner of Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors; Gillian Rivers, Pennington Manches Charitable Foudation founder, Santa Marta Group member and Anti-Human Trafficking Panel member.
Discussion schedule, registration and more info:
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