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,...
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Nonprofit Head: Oklahoma Delegation Should Work to End Human Trafficking
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...
Guest Column: Modern Slavery is Brutal Reality in US, and We Must Act to Stop It
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...
Sign on Letter to Amplify Trafficking Survivor Voices
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...
How Can We Tell Those in Slavery That the U.S. Congress Won’t Help?
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...
On Human Trafficking ‘National Freedom Day,’ Survivor Shares Story Of Captivity, Advocacy
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...
New Hope for Anti-Human-Trafficking Bill
By Emily Cadei, CQ Roll Call Published on February 1, 2013 in CQ Roll Call Lawmakers and activists are gearing up for another push to pass popular legislation reauthorizing U.S. programs to combat human trafficking, which stalled in the last Congress. The same roadblocks —...
ATEST calls for TVPA reauthorization during National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
ATEST partners across the country spoke out during National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and in the many news articles, opinion pieces and radio interviews noted below, called on President Obama and Congress to make TVPA reauthorization a top priority in 2013. ATEST...
New Report Helps Companies Meet and Exceed Requirements to Eliminate Human Trafficking from Supply Chains
For Release: January 29, 2013 (Washington, D.C.) The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) issued a report today, “Beyond SB 657: How Businesses Can Meet and Exceed California’s Requirements to Prevent Forced Labor in Supply Chains.” This path breaking report provides...
Congress Must Act to End Modern-Day Slavery, Human Trafficking
By Anna Hall, President, Grinnell College Chapter, Free the Slaves Published on January 29, 2013 in the Newton Daily News The following guest commentary was written in recognition of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Twenty-seven million. That is...