Vienna Forum

I just returned from the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking Vienna Forum at the Vienna branch of the UN. It was kind of a last minute thing because my boss decided she couldn't go so I got to go instead. It was really a once in a lifetime opportunity for me and even better because I was in Model United Nations Club in college, so the chance to go a and participate in a real UN conference was something I just could not pass up. In the end I actually learned that there were many similarities between Model UN and the real thing. Here are some of the pictures from the conference.

This is the logo of the conference
Me in front of the UN you can see the Latvian flag in the distance.
The forum main meeting room where representatives from almost all 181 member states met to discuss Human Trafficking. The interpretor booths were above the hall because every speech was translated into the six official UN languages.
Me and fellow Fulbright fellows to Cambodia and Ukraine.
Me and fellow Ukrainian Fulbrighter at the Imperial Hofburg Palace for the conference reception.
An Exhibit about trafficking called journey about one girls human trafficking story. If you look closely the exhibit was inside freight containers.

This is her story in her own words and the British government's response to trafficking (which basically is non existent).