Current Campaigns

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Labeling for Lent: Stop Trafficking at Sea

Maritime trafficking is modern slavery at sea, a violation of the human dignity of laborers at all stages of the seafood supply chain and aquaculture industries. The virtually unregulated fishing industry in many countries, coupled with the global demand for cheap seafood, create the lawless conditions under which trafficking at sea flourishes. Some migrants are recruited into fishing crews by false promises of a living-wage, incurring crippling debts to obtain the job that becomes their trafficking situation. Facing a shortage of fishing crews, many trafficker resort to kidnapping and enslaving fishers to work on their vessels.

We are joining Justice For Immigrants and USCCB’s Labeling for Lent: Stop Trafficking at Sea Campaign.

Statement to U.S. Senate on the Judiciary Full Committee Hearing Protecting Children Online

The Alliance to End Human Trafficking (AEHT) commends the Senate Judiciary Committee for the public dialog on the important issue of protecting children online. We thank the Committee for addressing this vitally important issue.

The Earn It Act

The EARN IT Act is a strong bipartisan legislation to confront the explosion of online child sexual abuse material. The EARN IT Act has been reintroduced in the Senate by Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Lindsey Graham(R-SC), and in the House of Representatives by Ann Wagner (R-MO) and Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), after having been introduced in previous sessions and passed unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee twice.

AEHT believes this legislation can be a beginning for achieving justice for victims and can be a step forward in offering some level of addressing online exploitation and trafficking of children. AEHT stands ready to work with Congress on this and future legislation.

Human Trafficking and Forced Migration

The U.S. Department of State estimates that over 70% of persons trafficked in the United States each year are immigrants.” (Human Trafficking Institute) People on the move or recently arrived are at particular risk of exploitation by human traffickers. Human Trafficking and Forced Migration

Alliance to End Human Trafficking (AEHT) and the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd (NAC), faith-based networks that work to end human trafficking, deplore the increase in human trafficking in the United States and around the world, some of which results from unprecedented forced migration.