Sex trafficking can happen anywhere, including in the United States. #DoesYourHotelKnow is an awareness campaign by ECPAT-USA that alerts hotels and travelers alike to educate themselves about the signs of sex trafficking. The Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct is the only...
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Tell Congress to Llisten to Survivors and Strengthen Efforts to End Modern Slavery
Almost 14 years after the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, there is now a substantial group of identified survivors of human trafficking who are poised to inform U.S. policy, public awareness and educational efforts, and programmatic and funding decisions. Their voices...
Strengthen Regulation of Foreign Labor Recruiters to Prevent Human Trafficking & Forced Labor
Labor recruiters are often complicit or directly involved in the trafficking of workers, exploiting U.S. nonimmigrant visa programs. These recruiters, who operate in a climate of impunity, lure impoverished and desperate foreign workers to the United States, promising jobs described as...
How the U.S. Government Funds Human Trafficking
In September 2012, President Obama announced a new Executive Order (EO 13627) that sought to strengthen protections against human trafficking by U.S. Government contractors and their subcontractors. The Administration is expected to release the regulations to implement the EO later this...
Kailash Satyarthi Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Child Rights Advocacy
On October 10, the Nobel committee announced that Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to strengthen and improve child rights. Solidarity Center described how as an activist, "Satyarthi has led the rescue of more than 78,500 child...
CAST, Polaris, & Clear Channel Outdoor Collaborate on Anti-Trafficking Initiative
On September 22, the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), Polaris, and Clear Channel Outdoor announced their partnership to increase awareness of human trafficking in the greater Los Angeles area. The awareness campaign will highlight the National Human Trafficking...
New Verité Study Finds Forced Labor in Malaysian Electronics Industry
Today, Verité released its groundbreaking two-year study of labor conditions in electronics manufacturing in Malaysia. The study found that one in three foreign workers surveyed in Malaysian electronics was in a condition of forced labor. Because many of the most recognizable brands...
Sending Children Back to Extreme Violence Is Effective Death Sentence
On August 26, The Huffington Post published this piece by Ariel Zwang, CEO of Safe Horizon. Ms. Zwang tells the story of Hector (not his real name), who, alone, fled extreme violence in Honduras to the U.S. Recently, five Honduran children, who also fled to the U.S., were deported back...
News Round-up — August 1, 2014
Check out the latest News Round-up of ATEST members in media stories this week: News Stories Despite clampdown, human trafficking on rise by Joyeeta Chakravorty, Deccan Chronicle (July 30, 2014) Human trafficking is rearing its ugly head in western Wisconsin by Doug Stohlberg,...
Survivors Must Be Part of the Solution to Human Trafficking
I wrote in a previous blog post that, “Many anti-trafficking activists, passionate about our work and the people we want to protect and support, like to believe we are equipped with the information necessary to prevent and end modern slavery. But, the truth is, we lack a critical...