WASHINGTON -- While releasing the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report last Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted that “we’ve got to acknowledge our own...

Human trafficking continues to be one of the most important challenges of our time. More than 20 years after Congress first passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act...

June 10, 2021 The Honorable Bob Menendez Chairman Senate Foreign Relations Committee United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable James...

Members of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking and leaders from the Congressional Human Trafficking Caucus and the Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking...

        A Summary of ATEST’s 2020 Activities and a Forecast of 2021 Election and Transition The 2020 campaign and election provided...

WASHINGTON – ATEST stressed the need for a whole-of-government approach to combat human trafficking inside the U.S. and around the world in comprehensive...

ATEST is recommending increases in many federal programs for Fiscal Year 2022 in light of the increases in vulnerability caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our requests to...

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...

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

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