Modern slavery encompasses a broad range of offences including forced labour, human trafficking, domestic servitude, tissue harvesting and illegal organ removal. Legislation is in place to ensure that living organ donors have made an informed and voluntary decision to donate their organ; free from duress, coercion and reward, yet the transnational nature of interconnected criminality can drive exploitative activity deep underground. 

The panel will address issues such as claims of forced organ procurement from executed prisoners in China, through to efforts to reduce the demand for illegally sourced organs. The panel will also address how easy it can be for individuals to become victims of human trafficking and subsequently held in debt bondage. 

Panel Chair Professor Bela Arora, will be joined by:

Dr Adnan Sharif - Consultant Transplant Nephrologist and secretary of the non-Government Organization Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) which campaigns against illegal and unethical organ procurement around the globe. The group was nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for its work in this area.

Dr Mike Stephens -  Wales' leading transplant surgeon

Red Godfrey Sagoo - CEO of Sophie Hayes Foundation 

Taniel Yusef - Actor and writer

David Hencke - Chair
Joanne Welch - the organiser of BackTo60
Jackie Jones - Labour MEP for Wales
Dr Davina Lloyd - from Back to 60, who its providing diplomatic advice to UN in Geneva

Yvette Greenway - is Joint CEO and co-founder of SOS Silence of Suicide, the mental wellbeing Charity who have supported Back to 60 members for 3 years. Yvette is also an active campaigner, assisting the Back to 60 movement, the vaginal mesh and sodium valproate scandals and other, less prominent, but equally important, cries for justice and accountability.

Doves Don't Do it!

If doves don’t do it, what does? Come and join Business Plan for Peace to explore what it takes to build a world without war. Humanity now has the experience, knowledge and tools to prevent and resolve conflict without the use of violence. War is past its sell-by date!

Chaired by Teohna Williams

Scilla Elworthy Three times Nobel Peace Prize nominee for her work with Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, work which included a series of meetings between Chinese, Russian and western nuclear scientists and military. She founded Peace Direct in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas: Peace Direct was voted ‘Best New Charity’ in 2005.

Kristina Lunz is an award-winning human rights activist, co-founder and Germany director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, and adviser to the German Federal Foreign Office. She was also recently named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list. Public speaker and feminist activist she continues to raise her voice against sexism, educational inequality, and racism, with “zero tolerance for social injustice,” as she says.

Jeremy Gilley In September 2001, as a result of Jeremy’s efforts, a General Assembly resolution was unanimously adopted by UN member states, establishing 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace – Peace Day. To prove the day can work, Jeremy and Peace One Day Ambassador Jude Law travelled to Afghanistan to spearhead a campaign that, over the years, has resulted in 4.5 million children being vaccinated against polio in hitherto unreachable areas, as a result of Peace Day agreements in the region.

Taniel Yusef

This discussion will be followed by an improvisation performance from The Renegade Saints at 6pm who will take the ideas discussed and together with you create new ways to build a more peaceful world.

What began as a documentary photography project by Guy Martin in Turkey quickly spiralled into a deeper journey along the fault lines of truth, and the power of narratives to control reality. 

Guy Martin in conversation with Jo Glanville

Related book: The Parallel State by Guy Martin