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President Bush Announces Initiatives to Combat Human Trafficking at the National Training Conference on Human Trafficking

On Friday, July 16, 2004, President George W. Bush announced that the United States Department of State had identified the final $25 million to meet the pledge funds that will support anti-trafficking programs in Brazil and Cambodia and India and Indonesia and Mexico, Moldova, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. In September 2003, President Bush had pledged $50 million dollars in a speech at the United Nations to support these efforts.

President Bush’s Remarks were made at the first National Training Conference on Combating Human Trafficking in Tampa, Florida.

On Friday, July 16, 2004, Governor Jeb Bush signed into law a bill making the sexual trafficking of minors a felony in the state of Florida.

For more information, see the President's full remarks.