Image: CenHTRO Director David Okech and Associate Director Lydia Aletraris photographed at the International Labour Organization headquarters at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland Professor David Okech, an affiliate of the African Studies Institute and Director of the University of Georgia's Center on Human Trafficking Research & Outreach (CenHTRO), is representing UGA in a partnership project with three United Nations agencies to develop universal measurement tools that harmonize how human trafficking is defined at the local and global scale. The agencies involved are the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and the International Organization for Migration, and the project is part of a $2 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Read the UGA campus news release Type of News/Audience: Recognition
