Human Trafficking and Taiwan: Past, Present, and Future

2022-08-24 - 2022-09-24

The recent outcry about Taiwanese human trafficking victims in Cambodia, estimated in the several thousand by some counts, has led to renewed discussion of the issue of human trafficking in Taiwan. In particular, reports indicated that such cases involving human trafficking sometimes involved Taiwanese trafficking in other Taiwanese, as well as efforts to take action were complicated by Taiwan’s exclusion from international bodies.To discuss the issue with greater depth, we have invited Dr. Bonny Ling to give a talk about the past, present, and future of human trafficking issues in Taiwan. Dr. Ling worked with UN peacekeeping on human trafficking investigations and conducted field research in Kosovo on effective law enforcement strategy to combat human trafficking, and will speak of her field experiences on the complexity of human trafficking. Dr. Ling is Executive Director of Work Better Innovations, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Human Rights and Business and the University of Nottingham’s Taiwan Studies program, as well as serving as an advisory board member of Human Rights At Sea.

Speaker BioDr. Bonny Ling is a scholar and practitioner who works on international human rights and development. She has worked in the UN system and in international civil society. Bonny is Executive Director of Work Better Innovations, a social impact consultancy with a community service mission working on new ideas for a responsible economy; Senior Non-Resident Fellow with the University of Nottingham Taiwan Studies Programme; Research Fellow with the Institute for Human Rights and Business; and Advisory Board Member of Human Rights at Sea. Bonny wrote her PhD in Law on human trafficking and China at the Irish Centre of Human Rights and is an expert on human trafficking and modern slavery. She graduated from Cambridge University (criminology) and the Fletcher School, Tufts University (law and diplomacy). Bonny has served as an international election observer in East Timor and for the OSCE. Previously at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, she writes on human rights, migrants, business responsibilities and international development and is a contributing writer for Ketagalan Media, New Bloom, Taipei Times, Taiwan Insight and The News Lens.

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