Bangkok--Apr 20--Public Relations & Media Consultant
Hilton Hotel Singapore - Vista I Conference Room
Tuesday, April 26th - 9:00am — 9:30am
Press Panelists invited from Conference:
Mohamed Mattar — Co-Director Protection Project
Linda Smith — Founder, War Against Trafficking Alliance
Prof Vitit Muntarbhorn — Special Rapporteur for UN and ECPAT
Dr. Jean D’Cunha — Regional Advisor/Programme Manager UNIFEM
Georgina Costello — Barrister, Australia
Amy O’Neil — Senior Advisor, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Overview:
You are invited to participate as a panelist for the Conference Press Breakfast scheduled for 9:00am in the Vista I Conference Room of the Hilton Singapore. This breakfast is designed to be a structured meeting time for speakers to have an open Q&A session with the local, regional and international press to raise awareness of the demand for child sex trafficking and tourism in East and Southeast Asia. All panelists are strongly encouraged to meet in front of the press room by 8:45am for a brief overview.
Note: Press will be allowed access to the keynote address at the beginning of the conference. They will also have an opportunity for follow-up one-on-one interviews during the 10:30am coffee break in the Press Room which will last approximately 30 minutes. Brooke Gambrell and Saleemah Ismail will be the primary contacts for the media while on-site and work directly with them to set up one-on-one interviews for speakers and panelists throughout the conference.
Breakfast format:
--Welcome
--Speakers provide a brief background on themselves and organization
--Q&A — Speakers provide thoughts/insights on sex tourism and trafficking in the region/purpose of conference/forward-looking
--Thanks/Close
It would be better to treat everything as on-the-record, unless you specifically say it is off-the-record before saying it, as otherwise it will be hard to control what is written. Please expect that TV outlets will be in attendance.
We have invited journalists from throughout the region; however it is likely that a higher percentage will be local media and international correspondents. Although we will do our best to provide you with a list of media attendees prior to the conference, we can’t guarantee their attendance.
It is worth bearing in mind that any non-English journalists may not have such a good command of English, so please try and be aware of this. Equally, international and national papers will be interested in the issue as a whole, while specific trade/local press will be interested in comments on child sex tourism and trafficking as relevant to their respective countries.
Contacts:
Brooke Gambrell
[email protected]
1-703-975-1945
I will provide a local cell phone number once in Singapore
Saleemah Ismail
[email protected]
+65 9046 7946 End.