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Dear colleagues, Happy New Year to all from the Refugee Law Initiative! We are pleased to continue our 6th annual seminar series on refugee protection in Europe with… - 'Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered' Dr Vladislava Stoyanova, Lund University (Sweden) - Tuesday 19 January 2016, 1800-1930 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DR Support for the fight against ‘human trafficking’ has evolved rapidly and comprehensively. There has been, however, no overarching critical evaluation of the efforts to make ‘human trafficking’ a focus of international law. In light of the current crisis in Europe, this seminar seeks to address this gap and question the usefulness of the international law definition of human trafficking and its legal framework. The seminar will show how, by developing the concept of human trafficking, the international community side-lined the older and more established human rights law concepts of slavery, servitude and forced labour, a development that urgently requires rectification! The event is free and open to the public. You can guarantee your place by registering through: http://bit.ly/1EGRX2I We look forward to seeing you there! Best regards, David Dr David James Cantor Director of the Refugee Law Initiative Reader in International Human Rights Law Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Future Research Leader School of Advanced Study - University of London ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/discussion/forced-migration-discussion-list-posting-guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeestudiescentre