An open letter to Candidates, the Media, Political Parties, and Policymakers: As survivors, service providers, human and labor rights advocates, law enforcement officials, researchers and policy experts, we know human trafficking is real. For decades we have worked to raise awareness,...
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ATEST Recommends Federal Funding Increases for FY22
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 the White House Office of Management and Budget were presented this month. Recommendations include spending...
U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline Cases Soar by 25 Percent in 2018
From ATEST member Polaris Project WASHINGTON, D.C.(July 30, 2019) – On the United Nations’ World Day Against Trafficking in persons, Polaris is announcing that human trafficking cases reported to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline jumped by 25 percent in 2018 from...
2019 TIP Report Raises Challenging Questions about Sanctions and Future Rankings
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 to trafficking, America will stand up to you.” The 2019 report, however, raises questions about whether the Trump...
Human Trafficking Report Tracks U.S. Criminal and Civil Court Cases
The Human Trafficking Institute, an ATEST member organization, reports that 771 anti-trafficking cases were in progress in federal courts nationwide last year. That’s the topline figure from the institute’s 2018 Federal Human Trafficking Report, released today in...
From Legislation to Implementation
Now that Congress has reauthorized the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and a package of related bills, the advocacy landscape on Capitol Hill is shifting from approving legislation to ensuring America’s anti-trafficking programs are fully funded and...
Transforming How Anti-Slavery Program Impact is Measured
This dispatch from the field by Lindsay Marsh originally appeared on the University of British Columbia's Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program website in December. ATEST member organization Free the Slaves thanks the university team's remarkable...
David Abramowitz on Passage of Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act
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 wanted to share a statement by our colleague David Abramowitz, managing director at Humanity United Action – and a key...
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month: Ways to fight modern slavery
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 children, women, and men; U.S. citizens and foreign nationals. They come from urban and rural communities. They are not...
Forced Labor Risks: Major Apparel and Footwear Brands’ Supply Changed Ranked by KnowTheChain
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 resulted in...