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...
Tag: Survivors
Victims of Human Trafficking Need Help
By Margaret Howard Published on January 21, 2013 in the St. Louis Beacon As the nation marks, this month, the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, my hope is that our elected leaders and all Americans will take action to end...
Trafficking Survivor: It’s Time to Help Others
By Ima Matul, a survivor organizer with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) Published on January 17, 2013 in CNN Freedom Project You might not know that January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. You might not even know why we need...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Victims of Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery
This webcast ran on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 from 1 PM to 1:30 PM. Experts from the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) were joined by a survivor of human trafficking to discuss the challenges faced by victims here in the United States and and how these challenges can be...