The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking is pleased to support reauthorization of the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act, introduced earlier this month. A significant percentage of unhoused youth become trafficking victims. The bipartisan bill addresses root...
Month: November 2023
ATEST Testifies Before House Homeland Security Committee
Stressing the need for “whole-of-government” solutions, ATEST Director Terry FitzPatrick testified before a joint hearing of two Congressional subcommittees this week. The committees were investigating human trafficking along the southern border, and connections to transnational...
ATEST Endorses Manifest Modernization Act
ATEST is pleased to announce our endorsement of bipartisan legislation introduced yesterday that will strengthen efforts to prevent the import of goods tainted by forced labor into the United States (S. 3217). Here’s the news release issued by the bill’s...