For Release: February 28, 2013 (Washington, DC) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to pass a Senate-approved version of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), paving the way for President Obama to sign into law the United States' most important...

ATEST held a national call today, urging more than 125 participants from anti-trafficking organizations nationwide to activate their networks and press House of Representatives members to approve the Senate version of the TVPA as an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA.)...

Published on February 15, 2013 in the New York Times Opinion Pages This week’s 78-to-22 vote in the Senate to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act provided a refreshing demonstration of bipartisanship that the House would do well to emulate. Last year, the Republican-led...

For Release: February 12, 2013 The U.S. Senate voted today 93-5 to reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), the United States' most important tool in the fight against human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The TVPA expired in September of 2011,...

By Kevin Bales Published: February 8, 2013 Growing up in Ponca City, I couldn't imagining ever walking into the White House and shaking hands with the president. But it happened to me, near the end of George W. Bush's second term. He invited me to watch him sign the...

By Beth Jacobs Published on February 05, 2013 in To The Arizona Daily Star The horrors of slavery that took place 150 years ago in America were out in the open, even tolerated. All these years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, I want to share the horrors of...

Almost 14 years after the passage of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, there is now a substantial group of identified survivors of human trafficking who are willing and capable of informing policy, shaping programmatic and funding decisions, providing...

By Neha Misra Published on February 2, 2013 in the Huffington Post Blog Trafficking in persons has become a big business. Globally, it's a $32 billion industry involving 161 countries -- including the United States. Trafficking in persons involves activities where one person...

By Karen Stauss, Director of Programs, Free the Slaves Published on February 2, 2013 in the Huffington Post Blog The brick kilns of Uttar Pradesh, India, are more than 7,000 miles from Capitol Hill in Washington. But for years, they have been linked by a groundbreaking piece of...

By Jessica Prois Published on February 2, 2013 in HuffPost Impact Margaret Howard became a victim of domestic human trafficking at 13 years old, when she ran away from home and was later picked up on a southern Illinois interstate amid passing motorists -- then drugged and held...