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2003 Conference Keynote
Speaker
Dorchen Leidholdt
Dorchen Leidholdt, Esq., is the Director of the Center for Battered
Women's Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families in New York City, an agency
that provides legal representation to battered women in family law, criminal,
civil rights, and immigration cases and advocates for policy and legislative
changes that further the rights of abused women. An activist and leader in the
feminist movement against violence against women since the mid-1970's, Ms.
Leidholdt also serves as Co-Executive Director of the Coalition Against
Trafficking in Women, an umbrella of grassroots organizations around the world
which she helped found in 1988. Ms. Leidholdt teaches Domestic Violence and
the Law at Columbia University School of Law, and holds a masters degree from
the University of Virginia and a law degree from New York University School of
Law. Ms. Leidholdt’s writings on sex trafficking include CATW position papers
to the UN Special Seminar on Trafficking, “Prostitution and the Global Sex
Industry”, 1999 and “Prostitution: A Contemporary Form of Slavery”,a CATW
Presentation to the UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery. Ms.
Leidholdt was the keynote speaker for our 2003 conference, Demand
Dynamics: The Forces of Demand in the Global Sex Trade.
www.catwinternational.org
Writing:
Presentation to UN Special Seminar on Trafficking, Prostitution and the Global
Sex Industry - Postion Paper for CATW:
Part One:
http://action.web.ca/home/catw/readingroom.shtml?x=16756
Part Two:
http://action.web.ca/home/catw/readingroom.shtml?x=16882
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