❝The President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) is a cabinet-level entity created by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) ... which consists of 20 agencies across the federal government responsible for coordinating ...
U.S. government-wide efforts to combat trafficking in persons. The Secretary of State chairs the PITF.❞
@StateDept engages with foreign governments, international and intergovernmental organizations, and civil society to develop and implement effective strategies for confronting modern slavery.
State chairs the PITF and the Senior Policy Operating Group, funds international anti-trafficking programs, and produces the annual Trafficking in Persons Report.
@USTreasury
Department of the Treasury engages with financial institutions to analyze and disseminate information related to the illicit finance risk associated with human trafficking.
@DeptofDefense (DoD) endeavors to ensure that the U.S. military, civilian employees, and contractors have the necessary tools for awareness and prevention of human trafficking, including through training, distribution of awareness materials ...
@TheJusticeDept (DOJ) conducts human trafficking investigations and prosecutions and provides grant funding for victim services.
DOJ supports anti-trafficking task forces; conducts trainings, research, and outreach initiatives;
@Interior Department of the Interior
provides anti-trafficking training for personnel and partners with federal, state, local, and tribal entities to combat human trafficking and provide victim services in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
@USDA Department of Agriculture (USDA)
provides anti-trafficking training for employees, inspectors, and industry partners to raise awareness of human trafficking in agriculture and rural areas in the United States.
@CommerceGov
(DOC) provides training for its U.S. and Commercial Service Employees worldwide on human rights, rule of law, and social responsibility raising awareness on anti-trafficking activities and disseminating information related to human trafficking initiative.
DOC additionally uses its export control authority to prevent exports that undermine U.S. foreign policy, which also extends to parties complicit in human rights violations and abuses committed around the world.
@USDOL
Department of Labor (DOL) assists law enforcement partners in the identification of trafficking victims.
In addition, DOL engages internationally with governments as well as business, labor, and civil society groups to implement models that work to reduce child labor ...
and forced labor, and produces the following reports: List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor; List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor;
and Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor.
The data and research contained in these three reports can also be accessed through the Sweat & Toil app.
@HHSGov Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) funds victim assistance services programs and the National Human Trafficking Hotline, issues Certification and Eligibility Letters for foreign national victims of trafficking,
provides training and technical assistance to local communities, and conducts public awareness campaigns and public health initiatives focused on human trafficking.
@USDOT Department of Transportation (DOT)
partners with federal, state, and local agencies and transportation industry leaders across the country to train stakeholders, develop educational tools,
disseminate public awareness materials, and fund anti-trafficking initiatives in the transportation industry.
@usedgov Department of Education
raises awareness of human trafficking in school communities; provides technical assistance; encourages schools to embed the issue in emergency operations and management planning;
and works with federal, state, and local agencies to develop and disseminate resource materials.
@DHSgov Department of Homeland Security
conducts domestic and international investigations of human trafficking, conducts public awareness campaigns through the Blue Campaign, provides education and training,
grants immigration benefits to victims of human trafficking, and authorizes victims who are potential witnesses to remain in the United States temporarily during the investigation or prosecution of their traffickers.
@USTradeRep Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) monitors and negotiates trade agreements and administers trade preference programs, which include U.S. government priorities to end the forced labor of adults and children.
The trade agreements to which the United States is a party have long included provisions that require parties to adopt, maintain, and enforce legal provisions on the elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labor.
The trade preference programs that USTR administers continue to be powerful tools in strengthening labor standards around the world, including against the use of forced labor.
@USAID United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funds international anti-trafficking programs; engages in innovative private sector partnerships;
and integrates and coordinates anti-trafficking activities across development and humanitarian contexts, applying research and evaluation to strengthen Countering-Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) programming.
@USEEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigates, attempts to informally resolve, and litigates charges of employment discrimination; it pursues such cases on behalf of trafficked workers and secures civil remedies for trafficking victims.
2020 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons:
@nnwodc Navajo Nation for its leadership in combating human trafficking on tribal lands and for bringing greater awareness of the realities of human trafficking in Native communities.
(i) any person that the Secretary of Defense has listed as a C____ C____ Military company operating directly or indirectly in the United States or in any of its territories or possessions pursuant to section 1237 of Public Law 105-261,
as amended by section 1233 of Public Law 106-398 and section 1222 of Public Law 108-375, as of the date of this order, and as set forth in the Annex to this order, until such time as the Secretary of Defense removes such person from such list;
❝For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord. 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of
darkness, but rather expose them. 12 It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. 14 This is why it is said:
“Wake up, sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”
15 Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.