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Protecting Women and Children from Human Trafficking, Abduction
and
Commercial Exploitation for Sexual Slavery

Brought to you by

The Cedars Cultural and Educational Foundation

"Through this and other conferences untold thousands of children and women can be saved and our communities secured to pursue the blessing of "...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..."

Tony Nassif
President,
Cedars Cultural and Educational Foundation

Conference Goals and Focus

"Sexual Trafficking is the movement of women and children, within national or across international borders, for the purposes of prostitution or other forms of commercial sexual exploitation. It includes the recruitment, transportation, harboring, transfer, or sale of women and children for these purposes.

Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking

Human Trafficking of Women and Children

The Preventing Abuse Conference will educate the public and assist in broadening public awareness and build bigger and stronger coalitions between the public and front line organizations, governmental agencies and law enforcement. Working together, these groups have the potential to effectively stop the humiliation, degradation and abuse of women and children trafficked and kidnapped for commercial sexual exploitation.

Child Abduction

This conference will also focus on educating the attendees on ways to help protect children. Steps assisting prevention. What to do if the child is abducted and what steps to take in the restoration process as well as other insightful and helpful points of information. Additionally this information will be helpful for parents, families and neighbors to learn the warning signs of a potential predator.

America Affected, America in Danger

Prior to entering WWII most Americans were isolationist and did not want to get involved because the war didn't affect them. When the war came to Pearl Harbor, their attitude changed. This conference will provide earthshaking and awakening information showing how Americans are affected by trafficking, child abduction, Internet. Right here at home and what can be done to protect the victims and deal with the perpetrators.

Spread of Disease

"...the sex slaves are a high-risk group for HIV infection..."

The Weekly Standard
Donna M Hughes, 2-24-03

Note: Who then are they infecting and who are those people infecting? What are the social, economic, healthcare costs as well as the exponential human suffering?

Terrorism

"...Revenues from pornographic sites go towards financing extremists and terrorist groups..."

Dimitriy Chepugov, Head of Moscow's
Interior Ministry Department

"The threat of trafficking does run through Al Qaeda's tapestry of terror. Since the advent of the war in Afghanistan reports have indicated that the Taliban engaged in open abduction of women and girls..."

Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking
Spring 2002

Conference Overview

1. Geographic Focus

The first Preventing Abuse Conference will focus on the local impact on Los Angeles and Southern California in context with national and international scope. Each expected and subsequent conference will do the same with regard to the location of the conference.

2. Impact on America

The conference will endeavor to demonstrate how the problems of abduction and trafficking of women and children have a personal, local, state and national and personal impact.

Unfortunately, many believe if it isn't affecting them they don't need to be involved. They may change their mind after attending the conference.

Problems regarding child kidnapping and human trafficking of women and children are relative abstracts to the general public because there doesn't seem to be a relevant connection.

Most people feel that when a child is kidnapped it's the parent's problem. Most people, while sympathetic, think "it doesn't affect me".

One focus of the conference is to show the impact and danger of human trafficking of women and children affects more than the direct victim(s).

3. Examples of Areas Affected by Human Trafficking/Abduction of Women and Children.

   1. Health care costs

   2. Society and social values

   3. Economic costs and impact on

   4. Legal--resource drain, etc.

   5. Social services and more

   6. Victim, and Victim's Family

   7. National Security

4. The Demand:

The root of the problem is the demand. The conference will endeavor to identify the demand for kidnapped and trafficked women and children. How it can be dealt with.

Areas to be addressed relating to the demand:

1. Demographics of the customers and the perpetrators

2. What is the fuel of the kidnap and trafficking problem?

3. What role does the popular culture have?

4. How the entertainment industry can assist?

5. What role does pornography (hard-core and "soft-core") play?

6. The role terrorism.

7. The impact of the Internet.

5. Legislative

The state of legislation (federal, state, local) and its effectiveness in addressing the problems of child abduction and human trafficking and what corrections and/or improvements can be done. The impact grass roots groups and individuals can have legislatively.

6. Law Enforcement

What is effective and how can it be made more effective? What does law enforcement lack and how can it be provided? How the public can help.

7. Child Abduction Prevention:

   1. What steps can be taken by parents, friends, neighbors, community, city, state, nation, that can help prevent abduction? We want to "connect the dots" between individuals, the public, law enforcement and grass roots organizations on the front lines in the struggle against abduction.

   2. What steps can be taken with children to help protect them from being abducted.

   3. What obstructions are there to prevent and protect from abduction and trafficking. How best to deal with the problem.

   4. How can the public help prevent and protect against abduction.

   5. What are the warning signs of possible predator and what to do about them?

8. Rescue and Recovery

   1. Abducted children

      1. What steps to take if child is abducted?/li>

      2. What steps to take upon recovery?/li>

      3. How rescued victims can be restored/li>

      4. Each organization and/or speaker will present different perspectives.

2. Trafficked Women and Children

Reasons why trafficked women and children don't try to escape and what can be done.

1. Each organization represented at the conference will present various perspectives toward rescue and recovery of kidnapped/trafficked women and children.

9. The Reality of the Problem: The Responsibility to Act.

"Three of the worst crimes committed against a child are rape, molestation and...inaction."

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Prosecutors announced state and federal charges against 19 people for alleged child prostitution and sex trafficking of children...As many as 13 underage girls, and several women over 18, were involved, he said.

Associated Press Writer May 11, 2004

"Silence is 'action'. Therefore, silence in the presence of evil makes one complicit with the evil perpetrated." Tony Nassif
President of the Cedars Cultural and
Educational Foundation.

Special Invited Conference Guest Speakers

Theresa Flores (Featured on NBC TODAY SHOW)---Tells of being a trafficking victim (in America) and how she escaped. The real threat to America and families. What can be done to protect women and children and even the nation.

Noreen Gosch— Mother of kidnap victim Johnny Gosch. She will tell the "rest of the story". An amazing and intriguing story of a determined mother. She will update on developments which are happening even as you read this. Don't miss this presentation. She will share things never before addressed. She will tell the real story. It will keep you on the edge of your seat. It will amaze you. She will also speak of the program she developed to help protect children from being abducted.

Donna Rice Hughes (Invited) President, Enough is Enough Campaign and world’s foremost expert on Internet Safety—helping keep kids safe on the Internet.

Ric Lumbard (CRTEC) Ric Lumbard and his wife Christie are Senior Pastors of the Wind and Fire Ministries Missions.

This regional volunteer base hosts the (CRTEC) Center to Restore Trafficked and Exploited Children organization. Ric Lumbard is the Board Chairman for CRTEC (Center to Restore Trafficked and Exploited Children) located in Iowa. CRTEC is a national center modeling restoration and re-humanization of trafficked children from a faith-based perspective. As a restoration service provider CRTEC is creating a safe, secure and restorative environment for rescued children who have been the victims of human trafficking by abduction, recruitment or coercion."

Their work focuses on re-humanization of trafficked children from a faith-based perspective. He will also present a training on Sunday morning.

Judy Reisman: A worldwide expert on porn., reveals porn’s devastating impact on children, families and nation and how we can win against this insidious perversion assaulting our nation and families.

Alicia Kozakiewicz.A victim who lives to tell how she was lured on the Internet and held captive for four days. She shares information to help protect others from Internet predators. She founded The Alicia Project has its roots in tragedy, but has grown to become a voice for exploited children. she came to realize that other children need not suffer her traumatic experiences. She joined her local Pittsburgh, PA Air Search and Rescue group, and created an Internet Safety Program, the Alicia Project, which she presented first in cooperation with the FBI Adopt-A-School program, the COPC Program of her University, and now independently, to schools and organizations.

She came to realize that other children need not suffer her traumatic experiences. She joined her local Pittsburgh, PA Air Search and Rescue group, and created an Internet Safety Program, the Alicia Project, which she presented first in cooperation with the FBI Adopt-A-School program, the COPC Program of her University, and now independently, to schools and organizations.

Senator Charles Grassley-Iowa—special message

Author of the bill to use the IRS against human traffickers in the same manner the government went after Al Capone. Though Al Capone, one of the nation’s most violent gangsters was never convicted of his numerous crimes he could not escape the long arm of the Treasury Department who procured his conviction on income tax evasion. Now his attention include the problem of porn.

FBI and ICE, Anne Bissel (Silver Braid), Brad Dacus (Pacific Justice Institute), Sandie Morgan (O.C. Trafficking Task Force), Salvation Army

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children--- Child protection information presented to all.

Tony Nassif, Founder and President of the Cedars Cultural and Educational Foundation, host of the Preventing Abuse Conferences.

Mr. Nassif was a member of the Los Angeles Task Force on Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution and has worked for many years on the problem of human trafficking and child abduction. He has organized many other conferences and preparing for a great number more throughout the country to bring awareness about the problems of human trafficking, child abduction and Internet safety educating the public that we all have an obligation to deal with the problem. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television talk shows such as Voice of America broadcast internationally, Family News in Focus, Dr. D. James Kennedy, FOX News during the war in Lebanon and hundreds more..

Nassif also addressed the U.S. Defense Department on the problem of human trafficking and also produced talk shows on the subject.

Other invited speakers to be confirmed: Gov. Sarah Palin, Secretary of State Clinton, Miss California Carrie Prajean.

and more

Speakers subject to change

* * *

Important subjects to be addressed

Solutions Helping Protect Women, Children, Families and Nation

**ABDUCTION:Helping protect and prevent child abduction. Child abduction is organized .

**HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Sex slavery of women & children. How we can help stop and prevent it.

**ENTERTAINMENT:Sexualizing the culture & youth by portraying sex outside of marriage as recreation.

**INTERNET CHILD PORN: Child porn is fastest growing. The war is being lost (FBI).

**INTERNET PREDATORS: Information helping protect children from Internet predators learning their tactics to watch for.Sexting: The dangers and the future.

**SEXUALIZATION of the American culture: Standards of right/wrong are eroding normalizing abnormal sexual behavior which fuels human trafficking. Conference information shows what can be done.

**PORNOGRAPHY:Fuels human trafficking. It is addictive and what we can do to help stop it.

**TERRORISTS:Connection to human trafficking and pornography.

**NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT: Trafficking is 2^nd biggest moneymaker worldwide, terrorist & gangs involvement , spreading of disease threatening nations and America, etc

**SECURING THE BORDERS: Many girls coming across the boarder end up forced into prostitution and porn

**THE FAMILY: How the traditional family is among the greatest protections against child

prostitution and cultural collapse.

Don’t Wait to be a Victim….Be Armed with The Truth

Internet Safety; helping to protect children/families

Helping protect children from abduction

What to do if the unthinkable happens

The effects of human trafficking on our nation and families

What fuels the demand for commercial sexual exploitation of women and children. How to stop it

How and why the Church is important in the struggle to free women and children.

National security

Pornography's impact and what can be done to reverse it.

The Cultural Collapse

...and more

***Important developments!!! Don't miss it!!!***

The information presented may help protect someone you love.

 
Conference Date

September 11-13, 2009

Hotel Location and Accommodations

Hilton Hotel

18800 MacArthur Blvd

Irvine, California 92612

Special room rates available. Rooms at the special rate are limited.

Telephone: 800-Hiltons 445-8667 Feel free to provide the operator with the room code PREV

Friday September 11, 2009  

5:30 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. Pre registration and film screenings.  

Saturday September 12, 2009              

7:15 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Registration              

8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  Conference presentations with short breaks            

11:30 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Break before lunch             

11:50 a.m. to   2:00 p.m. Banquet lunch with keynote speaker               

2:00 p.m.  to 2:20 p.m. Post lunch break                

2:20 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Conference presentations   
 
 
 
 

Sunday September 13, 2009

8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.* Speakers, breaks, lunch (not provided) and Special training by CRTEC

SPACE IS LIMITED!!  REGISTER TODAY

To Register Click the “Registration” Link at The Top of the Page

Or call

866-454-1776

Registration:  $59.00 per person

 
Registration at the door is $79.00

Your conference registration includes:

Full day conference attendance, film screenings, training  
and Saturday banquet lunch with VIP speakers 
 
Note: if registration is received after September 7, 2009 meals cannot be guaranteed.

Hotel needs the count before then.

I personally look forward to seeing you at the conference.

Tony Nassif

President/founder