IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 5, 2021. The League of Women Voters of Litchfield County will partner with the Litchfield Historical Society to offer a ZOOM talk called " Human Trafficking: A Victim Service Provider Perspective” on April 18th, at 4:00 PM. Please sign up to join at registration [at] LitchfieldHistoricalSociety.org and the link will be sent to you.

Our speaker will be Alicia Kinsman, an immigration attorney who provides technical assistance and support for the legal immigration program at the Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants (CIRI), which serves over 3,000 clients each year.  She also works as staff attorney for Project Rescue, CIRI’s anti-human trafficking program, and provides legal representation in immigration matters to victims of human trafficking and other crimes.

Kinsman will address the fundamentals of human trafficking, a euphemism for the crime of modern-day slavery. The devastating truth is that slavery is more widespread than ever before. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), in 2016, at any given time, 40.3 million people were enslaved.  And in 2020, CIRI worked with nearly 100 survivors of this heinous crime here in our state. She will discuss the seriousness of this crime, the many forms it can take, and the important role that everyone can play in identifying and serving victims.

The League of Women Voters of Litchfield County is a grassroots, nonpartisan political organization of women and men.