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Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005

Appropriates funding for FY 2006-2007 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

Addresses:

• the problems of US and international military personnel and government contractors accountable for labor and sex trafficking abuses;
• the designation of underage American youth involved in coerced and forced prostitution as ‘trafficking;’
• the need to expand state and local victim service programs.

Strengthens the minimum standards used by the US Government to determine whether other countries were addressing trafficking, such as:

• reducing the demand for commercial sex acts and for participation in international sex tourism by nationals of the country;
• ensuring that nationals who are deployed abroad as part of a peacekeeping or other similar mission do not engage in or facilitate severe forms of trafficking in persons or exploit victims of such trafficking;
• preventing the use of forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards

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