In a resounding bipartisan vote Tuesday evening, the House of Representatives passed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Act (H.R. 5856). The vote was 414 to 11. The U.S. has the world’s most comprehensive governmental effort to fight human...
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ATEST Endorses House Trafficking Act Reauthorization
The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) is pleased to endorse reauthorization of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Act (TVPRA). H.R. 5856, authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA), and introduced with many bipartisan...
ATEST Applauds Re-introduction of International Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
WASHINGTON – The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) applauds key members of the Senate Foreign Relaitons Committee for re-introduction of the International Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act - TVPRA (S. 920). The bill was part of a package introduced in the...
Congress Passes, President Signs Partial Reauthorization of Trafficking Victims Protection Act
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden this week signed two bills passed in December during the final days of the 117th Congress to reauthorize portions of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). ATEST applauds enactment of these bipartisan measures and calls on the current Congress...
ATEST Applauds Senate Passage of the Second of Four Bills to Reauthorize Trafficking Victims Protection Act
WASHINGTON – The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) thanks members of the U.S. Senate for passage this week of the International Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (S. 4171). This bill is a key component of a four-part package of legislation to reauthorize...
ATEST Joins Movement-Wide Call Urging Senate to Pass Anti-Trafficking Act
November 28, 2022 Dear United States Senators: We, a community of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and anti-trafficking leaders working to end human trafficking, declare in solidarity that we strongly support the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act...
New Statistics Underscore Need for Reauthorization of Trafficking Victims Protection Act and Significant Increase in Funding for Anti-trafficking Programs | ATEST Releases Updated Fact Sheet for Federal Candidates in 2022 Midterms
WASHINGTON – This week’s release of the latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery is an urgent call to action. More people have been trafficked into forced labor worldwide than ever before. Globally, 28 million people are toiling against their will every day at factories,...
ATEST Applauds Overwhelming Bipartisan House Passage of the First of Four Bills to Reauthorize Trafficking Victims Protection Act
WASHINGTON – Legislation to reauthorize the key law that underpins the U.S. government’s efforts to combat human trafficking and forced labor has passed the House of Representatives with an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 401 to 20. The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims...
ATEST Endorses Key Bills to Reauthorize and Strengthen Federal Anti-Trafficking Programs
WASHINGTON -- The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) is pleased to announce its endorsement of four bills that will reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). The bills each address different components of U.S. anti-trafficking policy and will progress U.S....
Recommendations to Congress for Reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
Human trafficking continues to be one of the most important challenges of our time. More than 20 years after Congress first passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), traffickers continue to exploit an estimated 25 million people in forced labor around the world, earning over...