Presentation Submissions are Currently Closed 

Thank you to everyone who submitted an application for consideration to present at the 23rd Annual International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference hosted virtually on September 23-25, 2026. We received a record number of over 160 submissions! All applicants will be informed of our Review Committee’s decisions on Friday, April 24, 2026.

If you have any questions or would like to be put on our email list to receive information about submitting a presentation for future conferences, please email us at info@traffickingconference.com.

 
 

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Be a part of our growing community by becoming a member of the Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars (GAHTS) to have access to the latest research, funding opportunities, job openings, and more! Learn more on our website HERE.

 
 
 

Below are examples of possible presentation topics:

 
 

Human Trafficking Topics:

  • Advocacy and social action in anti-trafficking work

  • Children and teen victims of trafficking

  • Children of women in the sex industry

  • Coalition building around anti-trafficking efforts

  • Domestic trafficking trends and vulnerabilities

  • Drug addiction and its intersections with the sex trade

  • Effective programming models, funding, and sustainability

  • Emotional and mental health impacts of trafficking

  • HIV and other health-related risks for survivors

  • International trafficking intervention and cross-border responses

  • Law enforcement perspectives and victim-centered policing

  • LGBTQIA+ experiences and vulnerabilities related to trafficking

  • Men and boys in the sex trade

  • Neighborhood and community responses to trafficking

  • Paradigms, perspectives, and policy debates in anti-trafficking work

  • Raising awareness and public education on trafficking

  • Survivor experiences, leadership, and storytelling

  • Target assessment and effective identification of victims

  • Violence and its intersections with the sex trade

Social Justice Topics:

  • Accessibility and disability justice within systems of care

  • Civic engagement, policy reform, and legislative advocacy

  • Climate displacement, environmental justice, and vulnerability

  • Collective power, grassroots movements, and community organizing

  • Criminal justice reform, decarceration, and alternatives to policing

  • Economic justice, poverty, and labor rights

  • Education justice, youth empowerment, and school-based equity

  • Ethical storytelling, media representation, and narrative justice

  • Gender equity, gender-based violence, and feminist movements

  • Health justice, medical access, and public health inequities

  • Housing justice and the impact of instability on communities

  • Immigrant justice, asylum, and migration rights

  • Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and cultural revitalization

  • Intersectionality as a framework for addressing systemic injustice

  • LGBTQIA+ rights, protections, and community empowerment

  • Racial justice, systemic racism, and structural inequities

  • Youth empowerment, education justice, and school-based equity initiatives