For Release: January 11, 2017 Washington, D.C. – The Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking (ATEST) is proud to support the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act (H.R. 459). Human trafficking victims are often forced to commit crimes by their traffickers as part of their...
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The U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking released its Annual Report
The U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking released its Annual Report last Tuesday, available on the State Department website here. Created by the Justice of Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-22), the Council is comprised of 11 presidentially-appointed survivors...
ATEST Letter to Support the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act (S. 3441 and H.R. 6292)
October 18, 2016 Dear Senators Gillibrand and Portman and Representatives Wagner, Gabbard, and Jolly: The Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking (ATEST) and the 165 undersigned organizations are proud to support the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act ( S. 3441 and H.R. 6292)...
ATEST Applauds Inclusion of Human Trafficking Survivor at Democratic National Convention
For Release: July 26, 2016 The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) applauds the inclusion of human trafficking survivor and advocate Ima Matul as a speaker at the U.S. Democratic National Convention this week. Matul, a survivor coordinator for ATEST coalition member...
Shandra Woworuntu: My Life as a Sex-Trafficking Victim
By Shandra Woworuntu Published on March 30, 2016 by BBC Magazine Shandra Woworuntu arrived in the US hoping to start a new career in the hotel industry. Instead, she found she had been trafficked into a world of prostitution and sexual slavery, forced drug-taking and violence....
Letter to the White House on 2016 Administration Priorities
March 8, 2016 President Barack Obama The White House Washington, DC 20502 Dear Mr. President: At the most recent meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (“PITF”) in early January, we were pleased to see the progress...
Human Trafficking Survivor: ‘We Need Jobs, Not Pity’
By Evelyn Chumbow Published on February 2, 2016 in CNN Freedom Project Evelyn Chumbow is an anti-trafficking survivor activist and member of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. She recently received a Bachelor of Science degree in Homeland Security from University of...
Great Step, but Only First, for Trafficking Survivor Empowerment
By Bukola Oriola Published on January 29, 2016 in The Hill Blog During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, it’s not enough to just talk about how to prevent modern slavery from happening. We must also focus on how to help victims and survivors of this...
Know Signs of Labor Trafficking
By Harold D'Souza Published on January 27, 2016 in Cincinnati Harold D’Souza is a Cincinnati resident and anti-trafficking advocate. It is hard to believe that the person serving you dinner, pumping gas or selling you a carton of milk in the local convenience store might be...
ATEST Welcomes United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking
For advocates and survivor-advocates of human trafficking, this week marks an important milestone: the first meeting of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking in Washington, D.C. Last month, the Obama Administration announced the formation of this group, composed of...