Ranks 20 Information and Communications Technology Firms on Supply Chain Forced Labor You can’t stop what you can’t see, and modern slavery is one of the world’s most horrendous – and most invisible – human rights issues to tackle. In a step toward further educating...
Author: ATEST
The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) is a U.S. based coalition that advocates for solutions to prevent and end all forms of human trafficking and modern slavery around the world.
ATEST Urges Secretary Kerry to Maintain the Integrity of the TIP Report
The Honorable John F. Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 May 25, 2016 Dear Secretary Kerry: I write to you today on behalf of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST), a coalition of 13 human rights...
Moving in the Right Direction on Anti-Trafficking Appropriations
Good news on the Senate’s commitment funding the fight against human trafficking! While the appropriations process is far from over, ATEST is pleased that the Senate Appropriations Committee has reported increased funding and strengthened report language on two appropriations bills...
New Legislation Would Bring Transparency to America’s Work Visa System and Help Fight Human Trafficking
ATEST joins Polaris, the Economic Policy Institute, and Global Workers Justice Alliance in expressing support for a newly introduced bill designed to shed light on the poorly understood temporary foreign worker visa system. The Visa Transparency Anti-Trafficking Act, a new bill...
Release Kah Walla
Melysa Sperber, Director of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST), issued the following statement in response to the reported arrest of Kah Walla, President of the Cameroon People's Party (CPP). Ms. Walla was apparently arrested in Younde, Cameroon earlier today after...
Shandra Woworuntu: My Life as a Sex-Trafficking Victim
By Shandra Woworuntu Published on March 30, 2016 by BBC Magazine Shandra Woworuntu arrived in the US hoping to start a new career in the hotel industry. Instead, she found she had been trafficked into a world of prostitution and sexual slavery, forced drug-taking and violence....
Make the Next President a Great Emancipator!
This blog post originally appeared on the Free the Slaves Blog. We need your help to make modern slavery a presidential campaign issue. With tens of millions enslaved worldwide, it’s critical that the next U.S. president make fighting slavery a priority. Today, the anti-slavery...
Children Don’t Migrate They Flee Event at the American Red Cross
The photo exhibition Children Don't Migrate, They Flee was featured at the American Red Cross conference Community Resilience: Evolving Perspective and Approaches to Migration from March 15 to 17, 2016. A project of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking and Too Young to...
U.S. Cracks Down on Products Made by Slave Labor, but Hurdles Remain
Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking Director Melysa Sperber is featured on the latest PBS Newshour Shortwave podcast. She speaks closing of a loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930 that allowed goods made by forced or child labor to enter the United States. By P.J. Tobia Published...
End Notes FY 2017
1. International Labour Office (ILO), “Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour,” (2014). http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---declaration/documents/publication/wcms_243391.pdf. (Accessed February 27, 2016.) 2. International Labour Office (ILO), Special...