by Terry FitzPatrick | May 14, 2021 | Advocacy, Thought Leadership
Members of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST), including FTS Board Member Evelyn Chumbow, and leaders from the Congressional Human Trafficking Caucus and the Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking gathered this week for a virtual briefing and...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Jan 17, 2019 | Advocacy, Slavery in the News
This statement originally appeared on the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) website. Free the Slaves serves as ATEST co-chair. WASHINGTON — Four key pieces of legislation that form the architecture of America’s federal response to human trafficking and...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Dec 21, 2018 | Advocacy
It was down to the wire in the final days of the current Congress, but near-unanimous bipartisan action has renewed an important package of legislation that shapes the U.S. government’s efforts to eradicate modern slavery. The four bills (S. 1311, S. 1312, S.1862 and...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Jul 28, 2014 | Slavery in the News, Take Action
This week may bring key votes in Congress responding to the increase in child refugees entering the United States from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Some of these children are fleeing widespread slavery in their home countries. But one of the policy revisions...
by Staff | Jul 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
SERVING UNITED STATES INTERESTS AND VALUES A Factual Foundation for the Sensible and Humane Treatment Of Unaccompanied Children at our Borders Free the Slaves Policy Brief |July 2014 There was a time in American history when runaway slaves were hunted down and...
