The Salvadoran single mother was hoping to support her
children in the United States. Instead, gunmen from the Zeta drug cartel kidnapped her in Mexico and
forced her to cook, clean and endure the rapes of multiple men. Now the survivor of this terrifying three-
month ordeal is a witness for a...
On December 9, 2010 the United States Senate unanimously approved the Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act of 2010. This piece of legislation was sponsored by Senator Ron Wyden (OR) and Senator John Cornyn (TX). The bill now moves to the House, which is...
Release Date: July 22, 2010
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Fact Sheet: DHS Blue Campaign
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today launched the “Blue Campaign”—a DHS-wide initiative to combat human trafficking...
S 2925 and H.R. 5575 bill authorizes the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs to award six one-year block grants, renewable up to three years, of $2,500,000 each to eligible entities in different regions of the United States to combat sex trafficking and...
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Co-Sponsor!
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act of 2010 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Attorney General should implement changes to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) to identify endangered juveniles;...
Justice for All Re-authorization Act introduced in Senate:
On September 27, 2010, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Al Franken (D-MN), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Justice for All Re-authorization Act of 2010. S. 3842 makes modest changes to the Crime Victims Rights Act, providing victims...
Op-Ed Columnist
The Gifts of Hope
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: December 18, 2010
So what would your aunt prefer as a holiday gift — another Mariah Carey CD, or the knowledge that she’s sending a little girl in Haiti to school for a year?
Unless you’re cursed with the...
31 August 2010 – The United Nations today launched a global action plan to combat human trafficking, with senior UN officials urging that governments worldwide take coordinated and consistent measures to try to defeat the scourge.
The plan, launched at a high-level meeting of the General...
México, primer país del mundo en campaña de la ONU contra trata de personas
México, 14 abr. (EFE)- El presidente mexicano, Felipe Calderón, y el subsecretario general de la ONU, Antonio María Costa, lanzaron hoy la campaña "Corazón Azul" en contra de la trata de personas en el mundo, con lo...
10 June 2010
Migrant smuggling has been an issue of increasing concern. The negative consequences of this type of transnational crime include the erosion of state sovereignty and the loss of control over who enters and leaves the territory, the potential security implications of clandestine...
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