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Update on National Human Trafficking Prevention Month

By LRC Bloggers

Congress passed an historic budget increase

to fight slavery recently...luckily there's no gridlock when it comes to this issue. A bipartisan Congress and the White House have approved major spending increases to combat slavery and trafficking in 2010. It's a "watershed moment" according to Free the Slaves CEO Jolene Smith. Read more here.

 

The nearly $12 million budget increase is one of the largest in history. It comes after coordinated Washington outreach by Free the Slaves and other groups of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST).

The new funding includes a 50 percent hike for the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute slave traffickers, a 25 percent hike to expand counseling, protection, housing and legal assistance for slavery survivors; and a 34 percent   increase to foster international cooperation to fight slavery worldwide.

Republicans and Democrats supported the new spending, demonstrating that fighting slavery remains a popular bipartisan cause in Congress.

"The fact that we were able to get this increase in such a tough economic climate shows that the U.S. is moving in the right direction," Smith says.

  

Full post as published by l r c - o r b i t ... the usd research satellite on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).