NATIONAL POLICIES & RULINGS: Victories & Steps Forward
This page is filled with national updates on government intervention and public policies that effect victims and survivors around the United States.
INDEX
- Department of Homeland Security Hearing on Backpage.com
- The President Declares No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act
- US Congress Allocates $520 Million to Identify and Aid Trafficking Survivors
LINKS
- Senate Passes Bill; Heads to President’s Desk (SharedHope.org)
- FOSTA Passes Through Senate; on President’s Desk
- House Passes Bill for Anti-Online Sex Trafficking (House of Representatives | WashingtonPost.com)
- Bill gives victims a clearer way to enact legal action against sites hosting ads for their sexual trafficking
- The bill now goes to Senate for a vote
- Bill gives victims a clearer way to enact legal action against sites hosting ads for their sexual trafficking
- Department of Homeland Security Hearing on Backpage.com (US SENATE | Senate.gov)
- Hearing on Backpage.com’s Knowing Facilitation of Online Sex Trafficking
- Leading to the direct removal of “America’s Top Online Brothel” from the internet
- Backpage.com is no longer functioning as a haven for sexual predators!
- Hearing on Backpage.com’s Knowing Facilitation of Online Sex Trafficking
- The President Declares No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act (WHITE HOUSE | WhiteHouse.gov)
- January 2018 National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
- The President of the United States signed into law the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act and the No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act
- The bills aim to increase punishment for those who participate in human trafficking using commercial vehicles
- The bills are committed to improving efforts to recognize, prevent, and report human trafficking in the United States
- January 2018 National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
- US Congress Allocates $520 Million to Identify and Aid Trafficking Survivors (Congress.gov)
- Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017
- Approval of the most comprehensive law in the United States to combat human trafficking proceeded through Congress in July 2017
- Allocating $520 million over the next four years toward programs that are designed to identify and aid victims and survivors of human trafficking and prevent it from occurring