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Carol Bellamy Keynote at Anti-Trafficking Conference in Croatia
Carol Bellamy was the keynote speaker on May 21, 2007, at a four-day conference organized by World Learning's STAR Network entitled "The Community Strikes Back: A Regional Conference on Trafficking Prevention."This conference, sponsored by Zonta International and the Tides Foundation, brought together important leaders in community trafficking prevention from the four countries in which STAR/WL implements the current regional trafficking prevention project:
- Croatia;
- Bosnia-Herzegovina;
- Serbia;
- and Montenegro.
Carol spoke about World Learning's community-based approach to trafficking in Southeastern Europe, Africa and South America.
The following excerpt from her speech sums up the message she delivered:
"As easy as it is to become demoralized by seeing the results, again and again, of our failure to protect the most innocent and vulnerable, I have always remained hopeful that change is possible. If my decade with UNICEF taught me anything, it is that this massive suffering of women and children and other victims is completely within our power to curtail."