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International Women’s Day: Human Trafficking in the Bay Area

Speakers:

Ruth Silver Taube
Ruth Silver Taube has a employment and labor law practice with her husband in San Jose. An adjunct professor, Ruth also does pro-bono work at the South Bay Law Workers Ctr. at Santa Clara University. Ruth has won numerous awards for her community service mentoring law students and workers rights leadership.

Perla Flores
Perla Flores is the Division Director of Community Solutions, a comprehensive human services agency serving Santa Clara and San Benito Counties. Since 1972, this nonprofit agency has provided many wellness and recovery-based services for all ages, including violence and crisis hotlines.

International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is celebrated on March 8 every year. In different regions the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation, and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political, and social achievements. In some regions, the day became simply an occasion for people to express their love for women similar to a Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day. In other regions, however, the political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.

The 2016 theme for International Women’s Day is “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality.” The United Nations observance on 8 March will reflect on how to accelerate the 2030 Agenda, building momentum for the effective implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals. It will equally focus on new commitments under UN Women’s Step It Up initiative, and other existing commitments on gender equality, women’s empowerment and women’s human rights. – See more at: www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/international-womensday

Sponsored by Silicon Valley United Nations Association

Ending Human Trafficking

FREE and open to the community; please register to reserve a seat at www.jvalley.org/endslavery

Leading up to next month’s Super Bowl, and continuing beyond, a broad coalition has been making great strides in bringing awareness of the scourge of human trafficking in our community. Come hear this group of powerful advocates, who will share cultural approaches to solving human trafficking, and how the justice and legislative branches are working hand in hand with the community to make a real difference.

Cultural approaches to ending trafficking

  • Dr. Merav Shmueli, Anti-Trafficking Coordinator, Ministry of Justice, Israel
  • Protima Pandey, Bay Area Legal Aid, Managing Attorney, San Mateo County
  • Perla Flores, Program Director for Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence, Community Solutions

Justice and Legislative partners in ending trafficking

  • U.S. Representative Mike Honda, 17th Congressional District
  • Jeff Rosen, District Attorney, Santa Clara County

Questions: diane@jvalley.org, (408) 357-7504

Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley, The Coalition to Stop Trafficking, District Attorney of Santa Clara County, No Traffick Ahead, Congregation Beth David, Congregation Shir Hadash, Congregation Kol Emeth, Hindu American Foundation, Temple Emmanu-El, Consulate General of Israel, Addison- Penzak JCC of Silicon Valley, Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley, Congregation Sinai.
Community Relations Council of Santa Clara County

Cultivating a Community of Compassion: Against Human Trafficking

Join the Fight Against Human Trafficking. Come learn about the dark side of human trafficking and how together we can abolish 21st century slavery.

Speakers Include:

  • Deacon Rubén Solorio, Diocese of San Jose
  • Deputy District Attorney Terry Harman, County of Santa Clara
  • Supervisor Cindy Chavez, County of Santa Clara
  • Sheriff Laurie Smith, County of Santa Clara
  • A distinguished panel from the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking and the Santa Clara County Human TraffickingTask Force.

Register at Eventbrite

Download English poster.

Download Spanish poster.

2015 Human Trafficking Conference: Building Capacity Through Collaboration

Human trafficking is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world and the Bay Area is a top destination for human trafficking activity. The goal of the 2015 Human Trafficking Conference is to train individuals across sectors on how to identify and respond to human trafficking cases through collaboration

Various Tracks: Prevention and Outreach – Victim Services – Legal – Government Agencies/ Public Safety – Law Enforcement

Register now: https://oag.ca.gov/HTCollaboration

$50 Coalition members, students, teachers, NGOs
$80 non-Coalition members

Sponsored by Coalition to End Human Trafficking; County of Santa Clara; San Jose City Councilmember Ash Kalra

Human Trafficking in the South Bay: Info and Action Night

As a Super Bowl host community in 2016, it is expected we will see increases in human trafficking.  Come learn about current efforts underway and what we can do together to abolish 21st Century slavery.

  • Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren:  federal update
  • District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Supervisor Cindy Chavez:  county update

Panel Presentation:

  • Paola Estanislao, Deputy District Attorney/Human Trafficking Prosecutor
  • Ruth Silver Taube, Katherine and George Alexander Community Law Center
  • Perla Flores, Community Solutions, Program Director of Solutions to Violence

Moderator, Sharan Dhanoa, Coordinator at South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking

Call to Action will provide everyone with a way to make a difference.  Light refreshments will be served.

Free and open to the public, reserve a seat here.

Download a flyer: Human Trafficking in the South Bay

Hosted by: County of Santa Clara District Attorney and Office of Women’s Policy, Community Relations Council of Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley, South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, National Council of Jewish Women, Silicon Valley Interreligious Council, Hindu American Foundation

Human Trafficking: Cindy Chavez

County Supervisor Cindy Chavez hit the ground running as soon as she was elected in July 2013. She immediately initiated efforts to:

  • Improve county government transparency by regulating lobbyists
  • Combating the scourge of human trafficking with a commission she co-chairs with the Sheriff and District Attorney
  • Improving public transportation.

Her public service career has been about putting people and their neighborhoods first, making lives better through innovative, visionary and thoughtful policies. She represents Central, South and East San Jose, a district that is a microcosm of the ethnic and economic diversity of Santa Clara County. She chairs the Board’s Children, families and Seniors Committee and serves on the Public Safety and Justice Committee.

Before election to the Board of Supervisors, she led the nonprofit social justice organization Working Partnerships USA, which led the community campaign to raise San Jose’s minimum wage.

During her two terms on the San Jose City Council – including two years as Vice Mayor – she helped win City funding for the Children’s Health Initiative, which made our county the first in the nation to ensure health coverage to virtually every child who lives here.

Cindy lives in downtown San Jose with her husband and son.

Dinner will be served. Please RSVP to pacificasv.org/rsvp/