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Iowa Preventing Abuse Conference -- Cedar Rapids, May 11

Contact: Tony Nassif, 818-848-7522

 

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, April, 30 /Christian Newswire/ -- Is child abduction organized? Human trafficking (sex slavery) is the second biggest money maker in the world.  Is human trafficking a threat to national security? Nearly one million women  and children  are  snared  into  commercial sexual exploitation every year. Can children be protected from Internet predators?  

 

IOWA PREVENTING ABUSE CONFERENCE to be held in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday May 11, 2007. "We need to educate, motivate and activate people to help free the victims and stop the crime", says Tony Nassif president, Cedars Cultural and Educational Foundation.

 

SPEAKERS

Dr. Laura Lederer, Senior Advisor to the U.S. State Department, Global Affairs

Senator Sam Brownback, R-Kan., presidential hopeful and sponsor of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act

Noreen Gosch, mother of kidnap victim and originator of the Johnny Gosch Bill. New updates on a dramatic story.

Monique Nelson, Internet expert (Web Wise Kids),

Susan Shriner, U.S. Homeland Security, (ICE).

Ric Lumbard, chairman the Center to Restore Trafficked and Exploited Children (CRTEC) in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Linda  Daniels, U.S. Department of Defense.

and more

 

Presidential candidates from both  parties have been invited

 

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

 

When: Friday May 11, 2007

 

Where: Marriott Hotel, 1200 Collins Road, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Time: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

 

Registration: The $39 conference includes continental breakfast and lunch To Register: Online at www.preventingabuse.org or call 866.454.1776

 

For interviews: Contact Tony Nassif at 818-848-7522 or president@preventingabuse.org