e-Smart Technologies CEO Featured Speaker at Child Exploitation Summit
15 November 2005 - 12:02AM
PR Newswire (US)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- e-Smart Technologies,
Inc., (Pink Sheets: ESMT) ("e-SMART" or the "Company") is pleased
to announce that Mary Grace, the Company's President and CEO, will
be a featured speaker at the "Children in Slavery" - The 21st
"Century" Summit on November 14th at Georgetown University in
Washington, D.C. The "Century" Summit is sponsored by Robert L.
Gallucci, Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and
Susan F. Martin, Director of the Institute for the Study of
International Migration, and will focus on the global commitment to
eradicate all forms of child slavery. The Summit is designed to
educate people about the global phenomenon that has become child
slavery, reduce the number of victims enslaved world-wide and offer
practical solutions to the deplorable epidemic. Ms. Grace will
speak about the Company's Biometric Verification Security
System(TM) and the Super Smart Card and how the system's many
applications can provide solutions to combat and eradicate child
slavery and exploitation. The Summit features other leaders in
government, law enforcement and business, including President of
the UN General Assembly Jan Eliasson, U.S. Ambassador John R.
Miller, Director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and
Combat Trafficking in Persons, Claude Allen, White House Domestic
Policy Advisor, Charlie Black, Chairman, Children in Slavery
Summit, Max Fratoddi, Co-Chair, Children in Slavery Summit and
former Secretariat of the FBI's Counter Drug Intelligence, Ernie
Allen, President, CEO and Founder of the International Centre for
Missing and Exploited Children, Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary
of State for Democracy & Global Affairs, Moises Naim, former
World Bank Director and former Minister of Trade of Venezuela and
Maria Velinkonja, former FBI agent; International Trafficking Law
Enforcement. "It is an honor," said Mary Grace, "to be invited to
participate in this worthy cause and provide solutions to this
horrific problem." "It seems unreal," continued Ms. Grace, "that
today, in the 21st Century, child slavery and exploitation exists
in our country and countries around the world -- that children, our
most innocent and vulnerable citizens, are trafficked across
borders and sold as slaves to be used in forced labor and, even
worse, sold into child pornography and prostitution and other
criminal activities. All of us must work together and do our part
to bring an end to what can only be described as the worst kind of
human rights violations. We can all agree that one war is a just
one, the war against child slavery and exploitation. It is my hope
that e-Smart's advanced system and technologies can serve as a
powerful non-violent weapon to win this war." e-Smart is the
exclusive licensee in the U.S. and Asia of the Super Smart
Card(TM), the Super Smart Passport(TM) and the Biometric
Verification Security System (BVS2)(TM). The Company seeks to be
the leading provider of high technology security systems that can
be used to combat fraud, terrorism and all forms of identity theft.
e-Smart's systems and products enable government and commercial
enterprises to continuously and securely verify the identity of
citizens, personnel, customers and any other persons seeking
physical or logical access. e-Smart Technologies offers what
experts believe to be the highest form of identity-based and
credential-based security with no profiling or erosion of civil
rights. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT Statements in this news release that
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performance are forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section
21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. While
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