New York, November 13, 2007---Africans In America, Inc., a leading human rights organization addressing social issues concerning the larger African immigrant community in United States has been invited to a strategy meeting on human trafficking organized in New York City at the New York County Lawyers Association on November 14, 2007.

(Photo here) The guest speaker at the invitation-only forum is the US Trafficking Czar (Coordinator of United States government response to human trafficking) at the United States Department of State -- Ambassador Mark Lagon.

Governments around the world, including the United States federal government have come to recognize that human trafficking is a huge problem and effort are being made at various levels to address it.

Expected at the conference include leaders of human rights organizations, federal, state and local law enforcements, policy-makers and other officials.

Leading the Africans In America, Inc. team to the forum is the Executive Director Bonaventure Ezekwenna and Principal Investigator/Director of Clinical Services Professor Leah Blumberg Lapidus, Ph. D., ABPP.

Africans In America, Inc. is one of the leading grassroots organizations raising public awareness on human trafficking issues, as well as emphasizing that human trafficking is mostly economics rather than ‘cultural’ crimes.