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...
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.
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...
ATEST and Freedom Network Outline Priority Issues for Obama Administration Final Year
At the close of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (“PITF”) meeting in January, Tina Tchen, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady, challenged administration staff to feel the “fierce urgency of the remaining 12...
Letter to the White House on 2016 Administration Priorities
March 8, 2016 President Barack Obama The White House Washington, DC 20502 Dear Mr. President: At the most recent meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (“PITF”) in early January, we were pleased to see the progress...
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) CIW is a community-based farm worker organization headquartered in Immokalee, Florida, and has aided in the liberation of more than 1,000 workers from modern-day slavery.
End Child Prostitution and Trafficking
End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT-USA) ECPAT-USA is a leading child rights organization dedicated to ensuring that all children are able to live free from commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking. We seek to end the commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking...
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States, most of whom are women. Founded in 2007, NDWA works for the respect, recognition,...
Vital Voices Global Partnership
Vital Voices Global Partnership Vital Voices Global Partnership identifies, invests in and brings visibility to extraordinary women around the world by unleashing their leadership potential to transform lives and accelerate peace and prosperity in their communities.
Verité
Verité Verité is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization that works with major brands and suppliers to assess and improve working conditions worldwide. The organization works to combat slavery and labor trafficking in global supply chains.