History of Feminism
Related: About this forumWhat can I do about Sexual trafficking?
http://networkedblogs.com/AlTjWhttp://www.youtube.com/user/StreetLightUSA
http://streetlightusa.org/join-our-ambassador-for-change-program/
http://networkedblogs.com/AlTjW
https://www.facebook.com/rebeccaproject
This site has numerous links to what others are doing and what is happening with human trafficking
http://daughtersofcambodia.org/
https://www.facebook.com/DaughtersofCambodia
Very religious DofC has programs such as graphic arts/jewelry making to teach women skills to keep them from going back into the trade to help support their family. Reading their FB page has enought stories to make me physically sick. Babies sold to brothels - this I know is true as a missionary friend spent1.5 years their helping to set up and secure a building for the t-shirt and jewelry shop to be housed.
I wasn't sure if I should have place this information in an already active thread or start a new one. Obviously I decided to start a new one in the hopes that other links would be added so that we can educate other and see what is being done to help women in our country. Also, as the title of my thread indicates, what can I do as an individual.
Right now, I am part of a prayer group that meets each week to pray. We ask for healing and restoration for the girls and women who are entrapped in the sex trade. We ask that more places like Streetlight are able to open facilities for those women. We pray for the volunteers, counselors and everyone involved in helping them escape the trade. Finally, we pray for the pimps and johns that their eyes will be opened and that their hearts will be softened so that they truly see the evil that they are doing.
Some will scoff at our efforts but prayer IS working. I don't have hard data or evidence to present to you. However, this prayer group has been meeting since 2009 and we have seen more secular and Christian groups step up to the plate and help children, teens and women who have been enslaved.
It is comforting and uplifting to read the various voices here at DU speaking up for the victims of sexual trafficking.
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ismnotwasm
(41,978 posts)You'll find in some area's a resistance to faith based reasoning. I'm agnostic/atheist, but I appreciate the efforts of faith-based communities to stop trafficking.
Feminists are highly aware of the scope and horror of the problem. The general community is not. Or they don't care or they don't care enough.
I was in a second hand store a while back, it had some Christian radio station on, advertising a march against sexual trafficking. I hadn't even heard about it. I thought, "where are the rest of us? Where are the anti-war people and the pro- union people, and the anti-corporation people, you know the ones who know how to really raise hell ( you may take that as a pun if you like)and human rights activists and the progressive political voices? Why do I hear about this on Christian radio station?"
Feminists, Of faith or otherwise, have been fighting trafficking for a long time. We run into all kinds of roadblocks; the bottom line seems to be to keep male sexual access available 24/7 We need all the help we can get.
Thank you for posting
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)we can go back to it, find it easily.
the thing about religion. there is very very good stuff in religion. we harp on the ugly and what is effecting us and the wrong in it. i do not have a problem with religion. in my area, i have been immersed in it in a fundie kinda way that i have never experienced. it was not a wonderful experience though really enlightening. but, i certainly saw the good, too.
Tumbulu
(6,278 posts)My own personal experience in West Africa.......
Not about sex trafficking, but about Christian Groups DOING things that really made a difference for women and girls.
There was a well digger who just went around drilling wells so that more people had drinking water- he and his wife were funded by some Christian organization, not sure which one, but it was not made into a big deal. They just drilled wells, installed clean systems for pumping the water and went on to the next village. They made a really big difference for the quality of life for women as getting water is a woman's job, never men's work.
Catholic Relief Services ran girl's schools (primary and secondary- that also fed the girls) . In the country I was in only boys had schools as it very poor and the families needed girls to do all the work and the job of boys/men was to pray and so educating boys fit more into the culture.
It became clear to me that these groups really were making a profound difference, but no one ever talked about it.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)https://www.facebook.com/safeworldforwomen
Thanks for posting this thread.
ChazII
(6,204 posts)Johns Schools in NYC: Trafficking class for men using prostitutes
Across New York, new efforts to stem the demand for prostitution are being considered. The Brooklyn District Attorney's office has mimicked this model by establishing a "john school" where men are educated on the consequences of hiring women for sex.
The next link contains a video of what they teach in those classes:
http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/13/trafficking-class-for-men-using-prostitutes/
Thanks, DU for your support and I am happy to read that more folks are learning about sexual slavery. I have not watched the video but it is good to read that men are being educated on the topic.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)There is a lot of information here and I have bookmarked to investigate further when I have time.
ChazII
(6,204 posts)This site has links to the many different organizations that are helping to fight against human trafficking.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)Divisions between categories of these crimes are artificial; see Alicia Kozakiewicz's story, for example, and her work with PROTECT.
Alicia's Law: Virginia
Brief Description: Rescuing children from sexual predators, traffickers and child pornographers state by state. Alicia's Law is a state initiative that builds state capacity to combat crimes against children. Versions of Alicia's Law have been enacted in California, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia.
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When Americans have a special interest they are serious about, they spare no expense to defend it. In 2010, special interests spent over $19 million per day on lobbyists.*
But there have never been deep pockets sending lobbyists to defend the most important "special interest" of all: abused and exploited children.
That's why PROTECT was created. Since 2002 we've been on the front lines in state legislatures and in Washington, fighting aggressively for the protection of children, with a small staff, a modest budget and a growing army of volunteers. PROTECT, a sister organization to the National Association to Protect Children, is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit.
We're conservatives and liberals united. We don't play charity softball. We play political hardball, because the stakes could not be higher. And we win.
* Source: Center for Responsive Politics
[center]OPEN LETTER TO ICAC's - National Association to Protect Children[/center]
Tuesday, 23 November 2010 09:50
Dear Friend:
Police work and politics have a lot in common.
I've known cops who knew more about turf fighting than any political operative. Most could walk into a university and deliver a Ph.D. lecture series on how the American justice system really works. And there is no t.v. "reality show" that touches what a veteran detective has seen going on behind the doors of society's wealthy and powerful.
So you might be able to imagine what our jobs are like at PROTECT. We battle Congress, state government and law enforcement bureaucracies to get Internet Crimes Against Children task forces like yours more resources. We stand at the intersection of your world and the political world.
There are three things our friends in the ICAC community know about us. First, we don't take government money. That makes our motives pretty clear: we want you to get the money. Second, we play hardball when we have to, because most of the time that's the only way you'll ever see a dime. Third, we believe what you're doing—tracking child pornography back through the Internet to take out predatory pedophiles and rescue children—is the most urgent and effective work anyone has ever done to stop the plague of child sexual abuse.
That's why I'm asking you to have our back.
They said what?
Recently, two of PROTECT's best warriors, David Keith and Camille Cooper, met with two Texas philanthropists to ask for their help. We wanted them to back us in the Lone Star state and in Washington, as we fought to secure more government funding for ICACs and stronger child protection laws. These individuals have given generously to various child abuse charities, and we wanted to show them the incredible payback that comes from fighting to put more resources into your hands.
They made a call to a law enforcement acquaintance, a connected guy you might know, with ties to the Department of Justice. His inside scoop? Steer clear of PROTECT. His friends in Washington say we're too combative, not with the program. And besides, he added, this child pornography problem has been way overblown.
Now, Teddy Roosevelt once said that "aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords." That's one of our mottoes around PROTECT, so we can cheerfully handle cheap shots like this and come back swinging. Our supporters are serious about this fight. But with so many new ICAC professionals coming into the field, and with so many of our old veteran friends retiring and moving on, we want to make sure you and your allies know the truth about PROTECT, from the horse's mouth.
Our Record
In 2006, total ICAC funding nationwide was $14.5 million. That was the year that PROTECT testified before Texas Congressman Joe Barton's Energy and Commerce committee, watching in outrage as one law enforcement officer after another followed orders and thanked Congress for the pittance it gave the ICACs, FBI, ICE and Postal. None of you could tell the truth about how desperate you were for help.
Rep. Barton (a Republican) railed at the Bush Justice Department, telling them they were trying to put out a forest fire with an aerosol can. He practically begged DOJ to ask Congress for serious funding increases. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President George Bush sent lip service instead of cash.
Since then, here's what PROTECT has done:
Working with then Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Rep. Barton (R-TX), we got the PROTECT Act passed, authorizing $60 million a year for ICACs, along with a lot more (link).
Within a few years, we drove ICAC funding from $14.5 million to $30 million. This year, the FY11 federal budget (now stuck in Congress) doubles that ICAC budget to the full $60 million. We'll fight until that's in your bank accounts.
Remember the $50 million in Recovery Act funding for the ICACs? The one that every politician and his brother claimed credit for? Not one dollar of that would have been contemplated, much less appropriated, if it were not for PROTECT. We went to pro-child, anti-crime champion Sen. Barbara Mikulski asking for ICACs to share in the stimulus program, then put together the proposal that resulted in that funding. That money has saved a lot of little children. Maybe it saved your job too.
In 2007, PROTECT exposed the fact that the FBI was diverting several million from the Innocent Images National Initiative's meager $10 million appropriation. Under withering questioning before a Congressional committee, an FBI official promised to give it back. Last year, Innocent Images received over $50 million from Congress.
PROTECT also exposed budget raiding behind the scenes that was taking desperately-needed funds from another federal law enforcement agency engaged in combating child exploitation. Today, the money is flowing back to them.
In California, PROTECT secured $1 million in new ICAC funding from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger during a year of deep budget cuts. In Tennessee, we doubled the ICAC budget and won new state funding to expand ICAC affiliates across the state. In Virginia, PROTECT’s Alicia’s Law has created the largest state expansion of ICAC support in America, including a permanent dedicated revenue stream from court fees.
And year in and year out, PROTECT keeps pressure on the U.S. Department of Justice. During the past two years, the Obama Justice Department has asked Congress for even less ICAC funding than their predecessors did, despite personal assurances from Attorney General Eric Holder to PROTECT that you were a top priority for him. You aren’t his priority, and he won’t fight for your funding. So who's going to do anything about it? PROTECT.
At the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, where the ICAC program is managed, the professional staff long ago weighed their interest in avoiding PROTECT's demands for accountability against your interest in PROTECT’s demands for more task force funding. You can guess which way their scales tip. Remember that the next time OJJDP staff "warns" you about PROTECT.
Why we win
If you're wondering whether it was really PROTECT who made these things happen, let me put it diplomatically: not only were we (along with members of the Surviving Parents Coalition) the only ones in the political game lifting a finger on your behalf, but we faced constant, behind-the-scenes opposition from privateers, federal bureaucrats, and quasi-governmental operators who wanted your money... or actually considered it their money.
We win because we're a lobby, not a charity, and we don’t have any conflict of interest. Our staff and volunteers asked me to tell you that it's hard, endlessly frustrating work. Do the politicians and law enforcement bureaucrats rally to your aid when we show them proof that children are being raped and tortured, children who could be saved, right now, by their action? As incoming House Majority Leader John Boehner might say, “Hell no they don’t.” The question itself is salt in the wound to anyone who has been in these trenches.
So, that's who we are, and what I think we are to you. Many ICAC professionals are right out there with us, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder. Others are great friends in private, but a little more nervous we'll get them in hot water with their federal government funders. Some of you we haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet.
Regardless, anyone who knows us will tell you (even those federal bureaucrats) that we keep our confidences, we are sensitive to the position you're in politically, and we don't play cop.
We’re not asking for thanks. You’re the ones who go home at night with sounds in your head of children screaming. You’re the ones who pull children out of hell. We just want you to know the truth about who we are and what we do.
In friendship,
Grier Weeks
Executive Director
PROTECT
POST 57. "...interdicting child pornography trafficking by sexual predators is the most effective strategy possible for detecting and stopping child sexual abuse."
- PROTECT.ORG
POST 68. FYI (off OP topic, but relevant filmmaking). Oscar worthy, both. Neither widely distributed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(2010_film)
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110331/REVIEWS/110339996
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=4483
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistleblower
http://us.macmillan.com/thewhistleblower/KathrynBolkovac
http://www.bolkovac.com/events--activities.html
http://magazine.columbia.edu/features/fall-2011/long-night
ChazII
(6,204 posts)Thank you very much for these links. The more information we have the better when it comes to fighting child pornography. Flake is from my state I need to do more research on how he voted. It is comforting to know PROTECT is ready to play hard ball.
As I stated somewhere, I started this thread so that we might have one place to access all other links easily. With your additional links you have provided very valuable information.
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)Last edited Mon Aug 27, 2012, 05:07 PM - Edit history (1)
Related thread here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12559552
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)Amber Lyon Homepage
A three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, photographer and filmmaker. Addicted to covering hackers, human & animal rights, environmental issues, and revolutions.
Child Sex Trafficking Investigations (CNN): http://www.amberlyonlive.com/AmberLyonLive/CHILD_SEX_TRAFFICKING.html
Program Titles (CNN): Sold on Craigslist (05:10); Child Sex Trafficking on the Internet: Selling The Girl Next Door (42:42); Justice For Trafficking Victim? (05:34)
TITLE (see link)
A former CNN correspondent defies threats from her former employer to speak out about self-censorship at the network
by Glenn Greenwald
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 September 2012 15.01 EDT
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In March 2012, Lyon was laid off from CNN as part of an unrelated move by the network to outsource its investigative documentaries. Now at work on a book, Lyon began in August to make reference to "iRevolution" on her Twitter account, followed by more than 20,000 people.
On 16 August, Lyon wrote three tweets about this episode. CNNi's refusal to broadcast "iRevolution", she wrote, "baffled producers". Linking to the YouTube clip of the Bahrain segment, she added that the "censorship was devastating to my crew and activists who risked lives to tell [the] story." She posted a picture of herself with Rajab and wrote: "A proponent of peace, @nabeelrajab risked his safety to show me how the regime oppresses the (people) of #Bahrain."
The following day, a representative of CNN's business affairs office called Lyon's acting agent, George Arquilla of Octagon Entertainment, and threatened that her severance payments and insurance benefits would be immediately terminated if she ever again spoke publicly about this matter, or spoke negatively about CNN.
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But CNN's threat had the opposite effect to what was intended. Lyon insists she never signed any confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement with CNN in any case, but she is sanguine about any risk to her severance package. "At this point," Lyon said, "I look at those payments as dirty money to stay silent. I got into journalism to expose, not help conceal, wrongdoing, and I'm not willing to keep quiet about this any longer, even if it means I'll lose those payments."
• Read CNN International's response to this article
• Read Glenn Greenwald's blog response to CNNi's statement
More: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021301864#post15
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)Voice, Backpage.com Split Off (print edition title)
By KEACH HAGEY
September 24, 2012
A group of executives from Village Voice Media Holdings LLC are buying its chain of 13 alternative newspapers, including the Voice, in a deal that separates the iconic titles from the company's controversial online classified company, Backpage.com.
The papers, which also include LA Weekly, SF Weekly and Phoenix New Times, will become part of a new, Denver-based publishing company named Voice Media Group that is majority-owned by Scott Tobias, formerly the president and chief operating officer of Village Voice Media. Mr. Tobias, who will become the new company's chief executive, will share ownership with a group of executives from Village Voice Media Holdings also moving to the new company. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, the majority owners of Phoenix-based Village Voice Media Holdings, will retain control of Backpage.
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At the same time, over the past couple of years, Backpage has been engulfed by criticism from politicians, clergy and human-rights groups accusing the site of facilitating child sex trafficking through its online adult-services advertisements, one of many categories of ads that it offers. Backpage says that Washington state and Tennessee targeted the company's website in passing laws that seek to eradicate child sex trafficking online, and the company is fighting those laws in court.
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Since a similar criticism pressured Craigslist Inc. to shut down its adult-services section in 2010, Backpage has become the primary advertising outlet for such services on the Web. The site accounted for 79% of U.S. online advertising in August in categories typically described as massage or escort services in the U.S., bringing Village Voice Media Holdings an estimated $2.3 million in monthly revenue, according to Advanced Interactive Media Group, an online classified-ad consultancy.
More.
Village Voice splits from sex ad-linked Backpage
Updated September 24, 2012, 7:33 a.m. ET
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A group of managers is buying the Village Voice and all its affiliated free arts weeklies but is leaving behind the online classified site Backpage.com, whose listings have drawn fire for promoting the illegal sex trade.
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In July, three Washington state teenagers who said they were sold online for sex sued Backpage's owners for allegedly enabling their exploitation. At the time, Village Voice Media said the suit wouldn't pass legal muster and is barred by federal law.
Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal called on Backpage.com in an open letter in March to "stop promoting and profiting from human trafficking" by shutting down its adult services section as Craigslist had done.
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In a statement on the deal, Larkin and Lacey, the founders of Village Voice Media Holdings, said they were "ready to move on and hand the reins to a new generation of writers, editors and publishers."
Backpage.com will "become the centerpiece of a new online classified advertising company with business worldwide," the statement said.
More.
ismnotwasm
(41,978 posts)'Ol Jim and Mickie ain't even sorry. Well they ARE sorry but...
Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Critics,
Two Irishmen and a lawyer walk into a bar...
The best jokes derive their humor from real life. Jim and I have spent much of our time in the past few years huddled with attorneys in ongoing litigation over the First Amendment, free speech on the Internet and Backpage.
We have federal court victories for Backpage in Missouri and Washington and are awaiting a federal judge's ruling in Tennessee.
Throughout this struggle we have also locked horns in numerous media venues with the National Association of Attorneys General.
This particular fight is important and not one that we intend to abandon. At the same time, Backpage's battles are an enormous distraction to publishers, editors and readers of Village Voice Media.
Consider the management challenge: our publishing business covers thirteen cities and nine states; Backpage spans 600 cities and contemplated expansion envisions business in more than two dozen countries. Clearly we face a choice.
Consequently, we have decided to sell our newspaper publishing and online media company. Jim and I have never wished to be the last ones at this remarkable party. We are selling to your current management team including: Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan, Andy Van De Voorde, Kurtis Barton, Stuart Folb, Josh Fromson, Gerard Goroski, and Jeff Mars.
Larkin and I depart to devote our undivided attention to the defense of Backpage, which is not part of the sale.
If it seems that we now spend as much time with attorneys as we do with writers, the truth is we have always kept the company's footing through litigation.
In our very first days we successfully sued the University of Arizona when their administrator Marvin D. "Swede" Johnson tried to limit our circulation.
Last month, an 11-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed a Phoenix District Court judge and held that Sheriff Joe Arpaio is not immune from being sued for pushing a sham investigation that violated the First Amendment rights of New Times, its editors and writers, and thousands of online readers, and culminated in the night-time arrests of Larkin and me by the Sheriff's Selective Enforcement Unit.
Since 1997 we have successfully defended more than 45 lawsuits filed by lawyers attempting to silence us.
But it is also true that the Backpage attacks are different from conventional press issues, if only because the attacks are orchestrated with the often unlimited resources of government funding.
As a consequence, the struggle is not an easy one. The outcome is not assured. Litigation is extremely costly in time and money. But this fight is the next step.
Nonetheless, it is an emotional parting for both Jim and me. We started the company's first weekly, Phoenix New Times, in 1970 as a protest over the war in Vietnam and in reaction against the mainstream media. Nothing about our attitude has changed.
In this journey, you have made us proud.
The staff has won every prize from the Pulitzer to the I.R.E. to the RFK.
The Livingston Awards recognize the journalism practiced by young writers. We have had more finalists and winners in that competition than any media organization in America.
This past year is not atypical; our writers have dominated restaurant criticism (the Association of Food Journalists) as well as minority affairs coverage (the National Association of Black Journalists).
You have gone on the road to cover Republicans in Tampa but also filmmakers in Toronto, Sundance and Cannes. Along the way we instituted minority training of journalists, first at Northwestern and currently at Arizona State University.
Every month our websites and blogs garner millions of page views -more than 17 million uniques in August alone. Our total combined mobile and app page views are nearing 3 million per week, meaning we have successfully opened up a whole new way for readers to access our content. At last count more than 400,000 people have downloaded our mother-site apps.
For these past few decades, we have fought to ensure that our publications stood for the principles of unfettered speech, open government, accountability and freedom of the press.
We have also challenged conventional wisdom, whether delivered by pontificating pundits or self-righteous scolds. You have given readers tales well told, whether unfolding an investigation, spinning a yarn, or venturing an opinion.
Enjoy the hell that you raise.
Michael Lacey & Jim Larkin
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/09/miami_new_times_sold_looks_a_l.php
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i was wondering if i had read the first post correctly. that knowingly sell children and they were cool with it.
wow wow wow.
scum.
but hey... free speech. 
ismnotwasm
(41,978 posts)You know what bugs me? They could have handled it different and helped prevent harm. They could have issued an apology, not to incriminate themselves but at least a half assed acknowledgement that all is not well in the sex trade or for sex workers. That selling and buying children is seriously fucked up. That they don't want that shit anywhere near one of their papers.
But no. Not a whisper. Just a we're moving on, folks. Lawyers to meet and court cases to win.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)If a few dozen kids get raped, well hey, collateral damage.
Many people seem to take that view... that the freedom of pimps, johns, and prostitutes (the happy, *** privileged*** few) supersedes everything else.
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)NYT Editorial
To Combat ‘Modern Slavery’
Published: October 1, 2012 (online), October 2, 2012 (print edition)
Though much remains to be done, the Obama administration has begun meaningful new initiatives against human trafficking — a worldwide injustice that exposes more than 20 million poor and vulnerable individuals, especially women and children, to exploitation and degradation. The most notable of these is a strong executive order aimed at ending human trafficking activities by government contractors and subcontractors.
The order ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/25/executive-order-strengthening-protections-against-trafficking-persons-fe ), signed by Mr. President Obama on Sept. 25, contains an array of simple but potentially game-changing provisions that will help enforce the government’s existing zero-tolerance policy. These new rules forbid all contractors from charging new employees recruitment fees that often lead to indebtedness to loan sharks, misleading employees about living conditions and housing, denying access to passports or failing to pay transportation costs so employees can return home.
This should be the first of several steps to bolster the attack on a scourge that Mr. Obama described as “modern slavery” in a passionate address on the issue last week at the Clinton Global Initiative ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/25/remarks-president-clinton-global-initiative ). Among other things, Mr. Obama should put the weight of his office behind a bipartisan bill in Congress, the End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act. The bill would strengthen the administration’s executive initiative by embedding into law safeguards against substandard wages, abusive working conditions and sexual and labor exploitation. It would also impose criminal penalties and create other enforcement tools beyond the scope of an executive order.
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That list should also include another critical measure to fight trafficking, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. This statute, which also has significant bipartisan support, was enacted in 2000 and reauthorized in 2003, 2005 and 2008. Central to the nation’s anti-trafficking efforts, it aids in the prosecution of traffickers, imposing stiff penalties. It also offers important services and benefits to help victims rebuild their lives.
Regrettably, the bill’s reauthorization has been stalled in the House by political wrangling over a separate issue of victims’ reproductive rights. Continued delay on this bill would hurt victims and send a terrible message to the world. If he is re-elected, President Obama will have the enhanced political muscle he will need to break the logjam.
A version of this editorial appeared in print on October 2, 2012, on page A30 of the New York edition with the headline: To Combat ‘Modern Slavery’.