Civil Society Groups Alarmed by Cuts to ILAB Grants to Address Forced Labor and Child Labor April 22, 2025 A statement signed by over 100 organizations urges the restoration of grant programs and reversal of staffing cuts at the U.S. Department of Labor’s International Labor...
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ATEST Applauds House Passage of Trafficking Act Renewal
In a resounding bipartisan vote Tuesday evening, the House of Representatives passed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Act (H.R. 5856). The vote was 414 to 11. The U.S. has the world’s most comprehensive governmental effort to fight human...
ATEST Submits Comments for 2024 TIP Report Rankings
February 1, 2024 The Honorable Cindy Dyer Ambassador-at-Large U.S. State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP) RE: Request for Information for the 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report, United States Government (Public Notice: 12260 | 88 FR...
ATEST Applauds New Bills to Protect Trafficking Survivors
February 1st is Freedom Day, the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln signing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865 to abolish legal slavery in the United States. It caps off National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, a time to reflect on that fact that forced labor...
ATEST Endorses House Trafficking Act Reauthorization
The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) is pleased to endorse reauthorization of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Act (TVPRA). H.R. 5856, authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA), and introduced with many bipartisan...
ATEST Applauds Senate Introduction of RHYA Reauthorization to Protect Vulnearable Youth
The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking is pleased to support reauthorization of the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act, introduced earlier this month. A significant percentage of unhoused youth become trafficking victims. The bipartisan bill addresses root...
ATEST Testifies Before House Homeland Security Committee
Stressing the need for “whole-of-government” solutions, ATEST Director Terry FitzPatrick testified before a joint hearing of two Congressional subcommittees this week. The committees were investigating human trafficking along the southern border, and connections to transnational...
ATEST Endorses Manifest Modernization Act
ATEST is pleased to announce our endorsement of bipartisan legislation introduced yesterday that will strengthen efforts to prevent the import of goods tainted by forced labor into the United States (S. 3217). Here’s the news release issued by the bill’s...
ATEST Joins Call to Increase Child Labor Enforcement Funding in FY24 Budget Negotiations
October 5, 2023 The Honorable Patty Murray, Chair The Honorable Susan Collins, Vice Chair Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Washington, DC Dear Chair Murray and Vice Chair Collins: The thirteen undersigned organizations write to express our appreciation for...
ATEST Recommends $1.8 Billion Budget for U.S. to Combat Trafficking in 2025
Attention in Washington this week is keenly focused on federal fiscal year 2024, which begins Sunday, and whether Congress can agree on appropriations bills to keep the government running. ATEST works well ahead of lawmakers and the administration, and this week we've sent our...