Workshop Description:

 

Sex trafficking is not only a human rights violation — it is a symptom of deeper systemic issues tied to global conflict, displacement, and gender-based oppression. This HLPF 2025 side event brings together global thought leaders, policy advocates, trauma-informed practitioners, and a survivor leader to explore the intersection of sex trafficking with peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and international policy reform.

 

Hosted by Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI) in collaboration with Harvard GlobalWE and Teach Train Transform (TTT), this workshop will highlight innovative neuroscience-based approaches to healing trauma, uplifting survivor voices through storytelling, and reshaping global narratives through justice-centered diplomacy.

 

We will examine how trauma-informed peacebuilding and survivor-informed policy can disrupt cycles of exploitation, and how international collaboration is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This is an in-person event at AAA ICDR’s offices in New York City, as a side event to the High Level Political Forum of the United Nations.

 

Join us for this urgent, solution-driven conversation that centers women’s voices, global action, and systemic change.