In Memoriam

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney has been a friend to me, long before I arrived to Polaris Project.  My heart reaches out to her, a titan of the anti-human trafficking cause, as she mourns the passing of her husband.

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Report card on ourselves

My last blog was about the 9th annual global Trafficking in Persons Report rolled out this week by the Secretary of State.   One of the most important aspects of the rollout is not the Report.  It’s the concurrent Report on the fight against human trafficking within the United States compiled by the [...]

By Public Outreach and Communications Dept. Fellow on 18th June 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Corporate Social Accountability, Domestic Servitude, Human Trafficking in the U.S., Labor Trafficking, Sex Trafficking | One comment

A state-of-the-art global report

This week Secretary of State Clinton and my successor as anti-trafficking ambassador, former anti-slavery prosecutor Luis CdeBaca, rolled out the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. The rollout embodied the bipartisan and inter-branch support of the anti-slavery issue which I experienced as ambassador. This report is an invaluable tool to nudge and prod [...]

By Public Outreach and Communications Dept. Fellow on 17th June 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Corporate Social Accountability, Human Trafficking in the U.S., Labor Trafficking, Sex Trafficking | One comment

Where diplomatic immunity becomes impunity

In a few days, a group of non-government organizations will be meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about a serious human trafficking matter: the veritable enslavement of some domestic servants by diplomats.  On our soil.

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By Policy and POC on 18th May 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Domestic Servitude, Human Trafficking in the U.S., Labor Trafficking | 4 comments
 
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