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United States Department of State Releases 2004 Trafficking in Persons Report
June 14, 2004
The United States Department of State is mandated by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 to release an annual worldwide report on the efforts of governments to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons.
The Act defines "severe form of trafficking in persons" as
- sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; or
- the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
Click here to access the 2004 Trafficking in Persons Report.
Related Documents
John Miller, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
(14 June 2004)
Our Trafficking Signal: Stop!
Secretary Colin L. Powell, Op-Ed, International Herald Tribune (14 June 2004)
For more information on the United States’ efforts to combat trafficking, click here.
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