Global Fund Co-Sponsored Event

Ending Domestic Violence and Trafficking in the 21st Century

Prevention. Intervention. Advocacy. Action

Monday, February 13, 2006
UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center
1675 Owens Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

The goal of the symposium is to inspire solutions to the challenges of domestic violence and human trafficking.

• Worldwide, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
• Nearly 25 percent of American women report being raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date at some time in their life.
• Each year it is estimated that nearly one million people—mostly women and children—are trafficked around the world. Approximately 14,500 - 17,500 people are trafficked to the United States each year, living in slavery like conditions of forced labor and sexual exploitation.
• Intimate partner violence is primarily a crime against women. In 2001, women accounted for approximately 85 percent of the victims of intimate violence and men accounted for approximately 15 percent of the victims.

The conference is designed to provide information about violence against women through speeches, panels and workshops. This event will provide a platform for education, demonstrate the compelling need, motivate individual action and encourage investment in community solutions. While the conference will bring attention to the issues nationally and internationally, the focus will be on how to take action locally.

US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) is the invited keynote speaker of the conference. Julia Ormond, actor, producer and human rights activist, and California First Lady Maria Shriver, a best-selling author and an award-winning broadcast journalist, are also invited guests at the conference.

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