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....
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.
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...
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,...