With a surge in public interest from a summer movie about international child sex trafficking and recent news reports of child labor abuses at workplaces in the United States, Congress is looking to enact new legislation to address human trafficking and forced labor. To...
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Survivors Identify Urgent Reforms Needed to Build a Survivor-Centered Anti-Trafficking Movement
A new report shines a light on ways anti-trafficking organizations in the United States have fallen short, harmed survivors, and need significant reforms to create a survivor-centered movement in the future. The report, We Name It So We Can Repair It, Rethinking Harm, Accountability...
ATEST Testimony on Winning the Fight Against Human Trafficking: The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act
Testimony by Melysa Sperber Director of the Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking Humanity United Before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations House Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States...
Slavery Survivor: Escaping a Trafficker Shouldn’t be Left to Chance
By Ronny Marty Published on February 7, 2017 by The CNN Freedom Project Editor's note: Ronny Marty is a labor trafficking survivor and member of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. As a survivor of human...
Once a Slave, Harold D’Souza now is Dedicating his Life to Helping Others
By Lucy May Published on February 7, 2017 by WCPO Cincinnati CINCINNATI -- It's easy to understand how being lured to the U.S. for a better life -- only to become a modern-day slave -- could kill a man's dreams. But Harold D'Souza's dreams are bigger than ever. "I want...
Sex-Trafficking Survivor’s Plea: I Want All My Life Back
By Guest Columnist Aubree Alles Published on February 2, 2017 by the Orlando Sentinel I think it’s human nature to want simple explanations for terrible things. If there’s an explanation, we know whom to blame, what to avoid and how to prevent it. In my case, people often...
ATEST Applauds Introduction of Stop, Observe, Ask and Respond (SOAR) to Health and Wellness Act (S. 256, H.R. 767)
For Release: February 1, 2017 Washington, D.C. – The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) applauds the bipartisan, bicameral introduction of the Stop, Observe, Ask and Respond (SOAR) to Health and Wellness Act (S. 256, H.R. 767) championed by Senators Heidi Heitkamp...
Survivors of Human Trafficking Need Help in Wiping Legal Slate Clean
"Vacatur" laws provide hope for starting a new life, but the Legislature must act. By Jenny Gaines Published on January 27, 2017 by the Star Tribune Should a 14-year-old child trafficked into the sex trade be considered a criminal, or a victim? What about a 42-year-old...
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month: Ways to fight modern slavery
Modern slavery is a scourge that touches us all; it’s in the communities in which we live and often found in the products that we buy. Human trafficking victims are children, women, and men; U.S. citizens and foreign nationals. They come from urban and rural communities. They are not...
A Presidential Agenda for Abolishing Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
Trafficking in Persons (TIP) represents a grave affront to the U.S.’ security, economy, and national values, degrading and reducing human beings to commodities that can be exploited for commercial sex acts or labor. The Administration of Donald J. Trump is taking office at a pivotal...