Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery: Religions for Peace Australia

Religions for Peace Australia invites you to:

Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025      Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Online (Zoom details below)

Annual Discussion Day 2025

Date: Thursday 12 June 2025   Time: 9:30am to 3:30pm
Location: Online

Join Religions for Peace Australia for our annual AGM (Weds 11th June) and Discussion Day (Thurs 12th June), by Zoom or in-person. The AGM will open with a presentation by Laura Giassetti on Human Trafficking, which is one of the priority areas for the Asian Conference of Religions for Peace.

About the Speaker:

Laura Giassetti is the Remediation Services Manager and Program Manager for Domus 8.7, an agency of the Australian Catholic Antislavery Network (ACAN). Laura has worked in ethical sourcing and modern slavery risk and compliance management for several global retail and consumer service chains.​With ACAN, Laura supports Catholic entities with a supplier engagement strategy using meaningful data to improve working conditions and manage Modern Slavery risks. Laura has experience in strategic integration of Sedex, social audits and worker voice programs in modern slavery risk management frameworks.​ Laura has practical experience in auditing and supplier engagement in Australia, Europe, South America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, most recently leading the ethical sourcing operational team of a large retail operation in Australia and engaging directly with workers in grievance investigation and remediation.

We will also be having a special introduction to the issue of human trafficking in Asia by Rev. Elga Sarapung, Chair of the Asia Pacific Women of Faith Network, Director of the Institute for Interfaith Dialogue in Indonesia (INTERFIDEI), and Coordinator of Indonesia Interfaith Network. Rev. Sarapung is passionate about leading ACRP women’s empowerment and has been instrumental in leading activities to raise awareness around human trafficking in the Asia-Pacific.

The Annual Discussion Day will begin on Thursday morning with a session on First Nations and how we can become better allies, presented by Professor Dr Anne Pattel-Gray. This will be followed by a session on the Multifaith Council of Australia, and RfPA's strategic priorities and goals.

Main agenda items for Discussion Day:

1. First Nations and allyship
2. Multifaith Council of Australia 
3. Religions for Peace Asia reports 
4. Peak body action plan

Online event access details will be provided by the event organiser

To register for Zoom link, please click here. 

For further information contact Sue Ennis admin@religionsforpeaceaustralia.org.au