National Network for Youth (NN4Y) The National Network for Youth (NN4Y) is the nation’s leading organization advocating at the federal level to educate the public and policymakers about the needs of homeless and disconnected youth. We are a membership organization of service...
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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.
International Justice Mission
International Justice Mission (IJM) Headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area with offices around the world, IJM secures justice for victims of modern-day slavery, sexual exploitation, and other forms of violent oppression.
Futures Without Violence
Futures Without Violence For more than 30 years, FUTURES has been providing groundbreaking programs, policies, and campaigns that empower individuals and organizations working to end violence against women and children around the world. Providing leadership from offices in San...
Free the Slaves
Free the Slaves Free the Slaves liberates slaves, helps them rebuild their lives, and changes the economic, legal and social systems that allow modern slavery to exist. Through innovative grassroots community organizing projects, rigorous evaluation and groundbreaking research, targeted...
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST) CAST, based in Los Angeles, provides comprehensive social and legal services to survivors of all forms of human trafficking in the United States. It also conducts extensive outreach, advocacy, and training efforts based on a...
A First Step Toward Stopping the Import of Goods Made With Forced and Child Labor
The Senate voted last week to close a loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930, a law that prohibits goods made by forced, child or prison labor from entering the United States unless the United States doesn’t produce enough of those goods to meet consumer demand. This ‘consumptive...
One Step Closer to Stopping the Import of Goods made with Forced Labour
By David Abramowitz, Humanity United Published on February 28, 2016 in the Thomson Reuters Foundation News Blog The International Labor Organization estimates that nearly 21 million people around the world are subject to forced labour. That astounding number begs the question:...
ATEST Applauds Elimination of 85-Year-Old Loophole that has Allowed Products Made with Forced or Child Labor into the United States
For Release: February 16, 2016 The Senate voted last week to close a loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930, a law that prohibits goods made by forced, child or prison labor from entering the United States unless the United States doesn’t produce enough of those goods to meet consumer...
Address the Root Causes of the Migrant Crisis
In this letter to the editor of The Washington Post, Director of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking Melysa Sperber urges U.S. policymakers to address the violence, corruption, poverty and climate of impunity at the heart of the migrant crisis. It is tragic that...
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
Every January, anti-trafficking advocates leverage National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month to raise awareness of modern slavery in the United States. ATEST has had the privilege to work with human trafficking survivor-advocates, whose voices are at the forefront of...