Smith Combats Human Trafficking—Modern Day Slavery
The International Labor Organization estimates that nearly 21,000,000 people—mostly young women and children—are subjected to modern day slavery across the globe. Millions more are trafficked within their own countries. They are stripped of their dignity, robbed of their human rights and forced into bondage and sexual servitude.
Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry that touches every country in the world, including the United States. It is among international organized crime’s top moneymakers, right up there with illegal arms trading and drug smuggling. Criminals have found that there is enormous profit in this nefarious slave trade.
| Information From Government Agencies and NGO’s on Combatting Human Trafficking State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons U.S. Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) State of New Jersey Office of the Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Task Force U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Anti-Trafficking Program |
Combating Human Trafficking
Congressman Smith has chaired numerous hearings and is the prime sponsor of three major laws and several international resolutions aimed at combating the scourge of human trafficking in the United States and around the world.
http://chrissmith.house.gov/specialfeatures/traffickingspecialfeature.htm
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FIAMC-PAS Statement on Trafficking
