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 political...
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The U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking released its Annual Report
The U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking released its Annual Report last Tuesday, available on the State Department website here. Created by the Justice of Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-22), the Council is comprised of 11 presidentially-appointed survivors...
Forced Labor Risks: Major Food and Beverage Brands’ Supply Changed Ranked by KnowTheChain
Americans don’t often think about the food they eat being tainted with modern slavery, but forced labor may be found in the food you eat and the drinks you consume. However, the more companies know about where their products come from and how they are made, the more likely it is they...
The Responsible Sourcing Tool: A New Resource for Supply Chain Integrity
ATEST member agency Verité, in parternship with the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and several NGOs, has launched a new online tool to combat human trafficking in supply chains. The Responsible Sourcing Tool, available here, helps...
The 2016 TIP Report Holds Burma, Uzbekistan Accountable for Human Trafficking
Today the U.S. State Department released its annual report of the state of human trafficking around the world. The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report ranks governments worldwide into one of three tiers based on their effort to combat and prevent human trafficking, forced labor, and...
New Legislation Would Bring Transparency to America’s Work Visa System and Help Fight Human Trafficking
ATEST joins Polaris, the Economic Policy Institute, and Global Workers Justice Alliance in expressing support for a newly introduced bill designed to shed light on the poorly understood temporary foreign worker visa system. The Visa Transparency Anti-Trafficking Act, a new bill...
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...
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...
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...