DVC ON SUPPLY AND DEMAND: BEHIND THE BUSINESS OF

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FOR IIP/G/EUR CSIEMONH; EUR/PPD; EUR/WE AYOUNG; INL/G/TIP
CTETSCHNER; INL/G/TIP JDONNELLY; IIP/T/TP RCOSTEN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: DVC OIIP
SUBJECT: DVC ON SUPPLY AND DEMAND: BEHIND THE BUSINESS OF
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, JULY 21, 2005


1. DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY: As a part of a series of
Mission activities on trafficking issues, PA Rome and the
U.S. Embassy to the Holy See organized a multipoint DVC to
address the `supply' and `demand' aspects of the market of
trafficking in persons. The U.S. and Italian interlocutors
shared experiences and expertise, and discussed
possibilities of continued contact. In Rome the audience
included selected key Italian Government officials and
Parliamentarians, high-ranking key representatives of the
Holy See, faith based organizations and religious orders,
NGO members, and media types. The following report is
submitted by PA Rome and PA Vatican. Embassy Vatican will
report septel on the broader implications of the event from
that post's perspective.


2. DATES: July 21, 2005; QUARTER: FOURTH; FISCAL YEAR:

2005.


3. JUSTIFICATION/OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the program was
to continue an on-going a dialogue with Italian policy
makers, opinion leaders, and NGO representatives on ways to
combat trafficking in persons by examining links between
supply and demand in this modern-day form of slavery. The
overall objective was to raise global concern about the
business of trafficking by bringing together U.S., Italian
government and Holy See officials, faith-based
organizations, religious orders, and non-governmental
organizations (NGO) representatives to discuss aspects of
supply and demand, to share best practices for effective
legal and social responses to sexual exploitation, to
cooperate on launching innovative solutions for prevention
and rehabilitation programs, and to promote joint action in
the fight against this modern slavery.


4. MPP UMBRELLA THEMES: MPP 5 - Global Issues: Combating
Trafficking in Persons.


5. AUDIENCE REACHED: Over 50 GOI officials;
Parliamentarians; Vatican officials; religious workers; NGO
representatives; media representatives.


6. RESULT/IMPACT: Post was very pleased with the outcome
of the DVC.
The conversation analyzed the situation and efforts
currently underway in both the U.S. and Italy and then
examined NGO and government legal and social policies. The
DVC facilitated the dialogue and contributed to effectively
increasing international cooperation between Government
leaders, Vatican officials and NGO representatives.
Speakers on all sides were excellent. U.S. Speakers included
Amb. John R. Miller, Director of the State Department's
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons; Terry
Coonan, Executive Director, Florida State University Center
for the Advancement of Human Rights; and Norma Hotaling,
Founder and Executive Director SAGE (Standing Against Global
Exploitation),San Francisco. Amb. Miller made positive
comments about Italy's legislation on immigration,
particularly article 18 of law No. 40, although he
reiterated the need for attentive screening of immigrants
and the importance for Italy of providing continuous updated
national level enforcement statistics. He stressed the need
to promote bilateral initiatives with Italy and other
countries to prevent forced prostitution. Ms. Hotaling
addressed supply and demand from a highly personal
perspective, focusing on educational and counseling programs
for men, while Terry Coonan, spoke about the supply side
from a state and national perspective. Finally, Marina
Torregiani from the Department of Social Policies of Rome
City Hall illustrated their projects on reintegration for
exploited victims under the Roxanne Project.
In Rome, the audience included Senator Enrico Pianetta,
president of the Italian Senate's Committee on Human Rights,
who opened the floor with comments of support for G/TIPS'
efforts; high-level officials from the Ministries of
Interior, Justice, Equal Opportunity, Foreign Affairs; high-
ranking officials from the Vatican (officials from the
Secretariat of State and from the Council for the Pastoral

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Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, and the President of
C.I.S.M., responsible for overseeing activities of all male
religious orders in the Lazio region),representatives from
religious and international NGOs and media representatives.
As a follow up to the DVC Counselor Fausto De Santis,
Director General of the Office of Statistics, Italian
Ministry of Justice, will have a meeting at PA and Embassy
Rome to discuss the possibility of working on common
projects. De Santis also proposed involving the Italian
Minister of Justice in future conversations on this topic.
Additionally, Alessandra Barberi from the Ministry of Equal
Opportunity has expressed an interest in traveling to the
U.S. on a VOLVIS project focusing on trafficking issues.
Leading news agencies ANSA, AGI, Ap-Biscom, FIDES, ZENIT and
the Vatican Radio reported extensively on the DVC and in

particular on Ambassador Miller's presentation and comments
on Italy and the 2005 G/TIP Report.


7. Non-USG Sources of in-country Funding/In-kind Support:
None


8. Quality of U.S. Support: Excellent. PA Rome thanks IIP
Program Officers Cathy Siemonh, Rhobyn K. Costen and Sandra
Bruckner for making this program possible. Kilner


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