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June 28, 2019 Terry FitzPatrick

2019 TIP Report Raises Challenging Questions about Sanctions and Future...

06/28/2019 • 3:32 pm • Terry FitzPatrick

While presenting this year’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report last week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a pointed message: “If you don’t stand up...

April 10, 2019 Terry FitzPatrick

Human Trafficking Report Tracks U.S. Criminal and Civil Court Cases

04/10/2019 • 5:15 pm • Terry FitzPatrick

The Human Trafficking Institute, an ATEST member organization, reports that 771 anti-trafficking cases were in progress in federal courts nationwide last...

March 28, 2019 Terry FitzPatrick

From Legislation to Implementation

03/28/2019 • 10:33 am • Terry FitzPatrick

Now that Congress has reauthorized the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and a package of related bills, the advocacy landscape on Capitol Hill is...

January 30, 2019 Terry FitzPatrick

Transforming How Anti-Slavery Program Impact is Measured

01/30/2019 • 11:18 am • Terry FitzPatrick

This dispatch from the field by Lindsay Marsh originally appeared on the University of British Columbia's Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs...

July 13, 2017 ATEST

David Abramowitz on Passage of Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention...

07/13/2017 • 2:11 pm • ATEST

Yesterday was a great day for anti-trafficking advocates, as the House of Representatives unanimously passed the Frederick Douglass Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2200). We...

January 24, 2017 ATEST

National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month: Ways to fight modern slavery

01/24/2017 • 5:13 pm • ATEST

Modern slavery is a scourge that touches us all; it’s in the communities in which we live and often found in the products that we buy. Human trafficking victims are...

December 8, 2016 ATEST

Forced Labor Risks: Major Apparel and Footwear Brands’ Supply Changed Ranked by...

12/8/2016 • 8:58 pm • ATEST • United States

Conditions of workers in the apparel and footwear industry have been in the public eye for more than twenty years: from reports of child labor in the footwear sector in the 1990s to grave health and safety incidents in Bangladeshi factories in recent years. This attention has...

October 28, 2016 ATEST

ATEST Calls for the Immediate Release of Kah Walla

10/28/2016 • 2:55 pm • ATEST

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 arrested in Cameroon today while holding a meeting on...