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Appendix C Speaker Biographies
Appendix C Speaker Biographies
Pages 77-81
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She developed and launched new work including the Rights for Working Women Campaign to research, understand and promote viable remedies for sexual harassment and violence in the workplace; the Ethical Garments Project working with brands, labeling initiatives and public procurement efforts to create a ‘sweatfree' standard for apparel production worldwide; the China Rule of Law Project which trains judges, arbitrators, lawyers, and employees of government legal aid centers and trade unions in labor law within China; and work with partner organizations in each of the Central American countries to develop comprehensive independent assessments of national labor standards.
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She has worked with several nongovernmental organizations and is now managing technical cooperation projects for the ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour (www.ilo.org/forcedlabour ) , with a special focus on Latin America, France and French-speaking countries in Africa.
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In that time he has worked on projects in nearly every major cocoa-growing region of Africa, Latin America and Asia – finding ways to improve cocoa farming practices and thereby benefit farmers, their families and their cocoa farming communities. Since 2005 Jeff has primarily worked to address questions related to Child and Adult labor practices in the cocoa sectors of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, representing not only the interests of Mars, Incorporated -- but also representing the interests of the North American and European cocoa industry coalition-the Global Issues Group (GIG)
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Meg Roggensack is a lawyer specializing in international trade and human rights and is currently the Policy Director at Free the Slaves. During her private legal career at Hogan and Hartson, she headed the firm's Latin America Practice Group, guided the Community Service Department's expansion into public international law pro bono matters, and chaired coalitions of businesses, think tanks and nonprofit organizations.
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Ms. Walker leads the Winrock component of the ECHOES project, a public private partnership with the World Cocoa Foundation and members and the U.S.
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