CNN Freedom Project published this op-ed by ATEST Director Melysa Sperber today as the US State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. (CNN) - For the past 14 years, the U.S. State Department has used its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report to judge how...

For Release: June 20, 2014 Washington, D.C. — The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) praised Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s downgrading of countries that continue to fail to address human trafficking in the State Department’s annual Trafficking...

By Xianne Arcangel Published on April 22, 2014 in GMA News Online An international human rights organization on Tuesday urged President Benigno Aquino III and United States President Barack Obama to discuss how both countries can bolster their anti-human trafficking efforts...

Trafficking in persons (TIP) is a transnational crime and is the second largest criminal industry in the world, second only to drug trafficking. Yet, for every $32 a human trafficker earns, the U.S. Government spends only ten cents fighting them. Recognizing the need for an efficient...

For Release: June 19, 2013 The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) praised Secretary of State John F. Kerry for calling to account countries that have continually failed to show improvement in fighting human trafficking in the State Department’s annual Trafficking in...