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The bill also amended the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to direct the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make a determination, based on credible evidence, that a covered individual (i.e., a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident) has been a victim of a severe form of trafficking.
Signed into law by President Barack Obama on May 29, 2015. The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 ( S. 178, Pub. L. 114–22 (text) (PDF)) is an Act of Congress introduced in the Senate on January 13, 2015, and signed into law by United States President Barack Obama on May 29, 2015. [1] It is also known as the JVTA.
Physicians for Human Rights. Polaris, a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that works to combat and prevent modern day slavery and human trafficking. PREDA Foundation, a charitable organization that was founded in Olongapo City, Philippines, in 1974. Prerana, a non-governmental organization ( NGO) that works in the red-light districts of ...
North Carolina ranks ninth in human trafficking, contributing to the thousands of women and children forced into sexual slavery in the United States. Now a new task force created by the federal ...
Committee consideration by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Passed the House on July 23, 2014 ( voice vote) The Human Trafficking Prevention Act ( H.R. 4449) is a bill that would require regular training and briefings for some federal government personnel to raise awareness of human trafficking and help employees spot cases of it.
The senators cited a 2018 survey by Polaris, which runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline, that found that 9% of victims or traffickers used ride-hailing services such as Uber or Lyft during ...
The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons ( J/TIP) is an agency within the United States Department of State charged with investigating and creating programs to prevent human trafficking both within the United States and internationally. The office also presents the Trafficking in Persons Report annually to Congress, concerning ...
Terminology. Human trafficking is a form of slavery, involving the illegal smuggling and trading of people for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power from a position ...