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ACADEMIC PROGRAMME

Session 4
Victims at the Centre: Trauma-Informed Justice in Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Cases

DATE & TIME​

LOCATION

🗓️ Tuesday, August 25
🕐 16:30-17:30 

📍 Grand Park Hall 1–3

Organised By

Organised by the Human Rights Committee and the Labour Law (+ Immigration Law) Commission

Description

How does trauma shape a victim’s ability to engage with the legal system — and what does this mean for lawyers handling trafficking or migrant-smuggling cases? This session brings together UNODC experts and practitioners to explore credibility challenges, access to legal aid, and the practical realities victims face during investigations and prosecutions.

SPEAKERS

Katherine Klaffenböck

International Organization
for Migration (IOM)
Austria

Bio

Katie Klaffenböck heads the Counter-Trafficking Unit at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Country Office for Austria. She has over 10 years of experience in working against human trafficking and regularly leads training courses for Austrian officials and frontline professionals in the field of asylum and migration. She is actively engaged in policy dialogue on the protection of trafficked persons in Austria and oversees IOM Austria’s direct support to trafficked persons. Prior to joining IOM, she worked at UNODC in the field of migrant smuggling. She holds bachelor’s degrees in political science and European studies as well as a master’s degree in European Union studies. Her main objective is to improve the structural protection of migrants’ rights.

Silke Albert

United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Austria

Bio

Silke Albert is a Crime Prevention Expert in the Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Section, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). UNODC’s mission is to contribute to global peace and security, human rights and development by making the world safer from drugs, crime, corruption and terrorism. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) advances justice and security around the globe to enable people, families and communities to live peaceful, healthy and prosperous lives.

SESSION COORDINATOR 1

Nikki Vreede

Everaert Advocaten
Netherlands

Bio

Nikki Vreede is an expert in the field of immigration law. Nikki assists private individuals, with a specialization in complex family reunification cases and permits based on medical and humanitarian grounds. Nikki also advises on labor-migration, including knowledge migrants and entrepreneurs, especially in the creative sector. She also assists companies that are fined for violations of the Aliens Employment Act.