Jan 31, 2023
In this episode, my guest Rosalee Keech shares her expertise on trafficking in persons.
Rosalee Keech is currently serving as United Nations Observer for ECPAT/USA. She previously served as Chief Observer to the United Nations for the League of Women Voters of the United States (2011-2021). She is continuing her work at the United Nations, focusing on ending human trafficking by bankrupting its illicit profiteering, increasing women’s leadership and participation in democratic political processes and human rights, and preventing violence against all women and girls. Rosalee Keech also serves as President of the committee to Stop Trafficking in Persons, Inc. (a coalition of non-governmental organizations accredited at the United Nations), member of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Task Force, and chair of its Outreach and Awareness as well as its Business & Industry Advisory Committees. Additionally, she is a member of the Board of Directors at the Jewish Home at Rockleighand Home@Home. Her previous roles included Executive Secretary and Board of Directors for the Jersey City Employment and Training Program, Inc. (2019-2020), advisor to the International Center for Abuse Prevention (2018-2020), Board of Directors for the League of Women Voters of the United States (2014-2016) and were a governor appointee to the NJ Board of Professional Planners (2002-2017). Ms. Keech is a retired Information Officer and graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in Economics and Education and an MBA in Finance from New York University.
In this episode, Rosalee and I discussed:
- Her professional background and what inspires her to advocate to stop human trafficking.
- Raising awareness and advocacy to stop human trafficking
- How to combat human trafficking from a business point of view
- Different approaches to battle human trafficking
- Statistics of people in forced labor and human trafficking
- Working to resolve the root cause of human trafficking
- How the supply and demand of human trafficking work
- How we may be fueling human trafficking unknowingly
- Strengthening the policies that are effective in stopping human trafficking
- What we can do to prevent ourselves from being trafficked, and simple ways we can do to help curb trafficking
- Organizations that rank the ability of the manufacturers to be a slave-free process.
- How to report suspected human trafficking
*Correction on 41:21: Guest mentioned free trade but meant
"fair" trade.
Connect with Rosalee Keech here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosalee-k-32b78948/
Website: https://lwvma.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Rosalee-Keech-bioREV1.pdf
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