Human Trafficking Laws

Human trafficking is modern-day slavery, and includes the recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining of a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud or coercion. It is a crime under federal and international law; it is also a crime in every state in the United States.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 is the first comprehensive federal law to address human trafficking.The TVPA was reauthorized through the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2003, 2005, 2008, and 2013.

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Twelve states have now implemented our training for CDL holders in their states.

Sources:

https://sharedhope.org/what-we-do/bring-justice/reportcards/state-survey-charts/#section1

http://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/human-trafficking-laws.aspx

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-federal-law-prostitution-children

https://sharedhope.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/PROSECUTING-DEMAND-AS-A-CRIME-OF-HUMAN-TRAFFICKING-THE-EIGHTH-CIRCUIT-DECISION-I.pdf

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1532?r=16

https://www.demandabolition.org/news/california-law-enforcement-empowered-impound-sex-buyers-cars/

https://www.justice.gov/crt/involuntary-servitude-forced-labor-and-sex-trafficking-statutes-enforced

https://polarisproject.org/current-federal-laws

https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/house-bill/03244