Ranks 20 Information and Communications Technology Firms on Supply Chain Forced Labor You can’t stop what you can’t see, and modern slavery is one of the world’s most horrendous – and most invisible – human rights issues to tackle. In a step toward further educating...
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Moving in the Right Direction on Anti-Trafficking Appropriations
Good news on the Senate’s commitment funding the fight against human trafficking! While the appropriations process is far from over, ATEST is pleased that the Senate Appropriations Committee has reported increased funding and strengthened report language on two appropriations bills...
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...
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
Every January, anti-trafficking advocates leverage National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month to raise awareness of modern slavery in the United States. ATEST has had the privilege to work with human trafficking survivor-advocates, whose voices are at the forefront of...
Photo Exhibition: Children Don’t Migrate, They Flee
Please join the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking and Too Young to Wed at a cocktail reception and viewing to celebrate the opening of Children Don't Migrate, They Flee Wednesday, January 20th, 5:00PM to 7:00PM Russell Senate Office Building, Kennedy Caucus Room (SR...
Runaways at Risk: Youth Homelessness and Human Trafficking
The true experts on youth homelessness are young people themselves. Hear from three National Network For Youth advisors and other service providers to learn more about the intersection between human trafficking and youth homelessness. Thanks to National Foundation for Women Legislators...