Ending forced labor around the world will boost global GDP by $611 billion per year, according to new research by the United Nations International Labor Organization...
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ATEST Asks Congress to Increase Key Anti-Trafficking Programs in 2025
ATEST has formally submitted 21 funding requests across seven federal agencies to congressional appropriations subcommittees. The letters ask Congress to increase...
Historic Capitol Hill Briefing by Experts with Lived Experience
With a surge in public interest from a summer movie about international child sex trafficking and recent news reports of child labor abuses at workplaces...
ATEST Joins Other Orgs Calling for New Constitutional Amendment to...
ATEST has joined a long list of organizations urging Congress to fix a loophole in the U.S. Constitution that allows for slavery and involuntary servitude to be used as...
Survivors Identify Urgent Reforms Needed to Build a Survivor-Centered Anti-Trafficking...
A new report shines a light on ways anti-trafficking organizations in the United States have fallen short, harmed survivors, and need significant reforms to create a...
Congress Introduces Major Reforms to Assist Youth Experiencing Homelessness and...
News today from ATEST member organization National Network for Youth. ATEST endorses this legislation: We are excited to announce that Representatives Yarmuth (D-KY)...
CNN op-ed: Five reasons I’m optimistic despite grim new statistics...
ATEST Director Terry FitzPatrick today explained why he's personally hopeful even thought new statistics indicate the number of people in forced labor is growing. CNN...
New Statistics Underscore Need for Reauthorization of Trafficking Victims Protection...
WASHINGTON – This week’s release of the latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery is an urgent call to action. More people have been trafficked into forced labor...
ATEST Recommendations to U.S. Trade Representative on Developing a Forced...
August 5, 2022 The Honorable Katherine Tai U.S. Trade Representative Washington, DC Electronic Submission to Federal eRulemaking Portal:...
2022 TIP Report Underscores that Extensive Work is Needed to Improve Global Efforts to Protect People from Human Traffickers
WASHINGTON – The 2022 U.S. State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, which reviews responses by governments to combat human trafficking and...