Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

Date: 11/19/2009 Description: Bangladeshi child laborers work at a balloon workshop in Kamrangir Char, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. © AP Image Date: 08/25/2010 Description: A Zimbabwean girl sits in the shadows near a truck stop around Musina, South Africa. An increasing number of young Zimbabweans are setting out on their own to escape their homeland's economic ruin and help their families. International aid groups fear that many girls have disappeared into forced prostitution or domestic work. © AP Image Date: 08/25/2010 Description: Since the 1970s, many workers from northeast Brazil, the poorest and driest region of the country, have migrated to the Amazon and to the south to work on ranches, soy and sugar plantations, and in logging camps. Labor investigators say land barons and middlemen often exploit these migrants; it is estimated that tens of thousands of Brazilian workers still find themselves in debt bondage. © Petra Costa
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“Modern slavery – be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery – is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country … [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.” – Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State

The Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, directed by Ambassador Luis CdeBaca, leads the United States' global engagement against human trafficking, an umbrella term used to describe the activities involved when someone obtains or holds a person in compelled service. At the heart of this phenomenon are the myriad forms of enslavement as outlined in the United States' Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Major forms of human trafficking include: forced labor, sex trafficking, bonded labor, debt bondage, involuntary domestic servitude, forced child labor, child soldiers, and child sex trafficking. The Office has responsibility for bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, targeted foreign assistance, and public engagement on this issue of modern slavery and partners with foreign governments and civil society to develop and implement effective counter-trafficking strategies.
Date: 06/14/2010 Description: Trafficking in Persons Report cover. 10th Edition. June 2010. - State Dept Image

The Trafficking in Persons Report on 175 countries is the most comprehensive worldwide report on the efforts of governments to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons. Its findings will raise global awareness and spur countries to take effective actions to counter trafficking in persons. The annual report serves as the primary diplomatic tool through which the U.S. Government encourages partnership and increased determination in the fight against forced labor, sexual exploitation, and modern-day slavery.
Prevention
Date: 08/25/2010 Description: Farm workers in California march during a campaign to end human rights violations in the U.S. agricultural industry. The prevalence of forced labor in agriculture has led to increased pressure on major brands to trace their products to ''the farm gate'' and ensure proper treatment of workers through their supply chains. © Jacque-Jean Tiziou/www.jjtiziou.net		 Protection
Date: 02/17/2000 Description: A child laborer carries cement at a construction site near Dharmsala, India. © AP Image 		Prosecution
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