Labor Trafficking In Troubled Economic Times: Protecting American Jobs And Migrant Human Rights
Monday, May 23, 2011, 4:00 am
Witnesses
Hon. Luis C. deBaca
Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Department of State
Gabriela Lemus
Senior Advisor and Director, Office of Public Engagement
Department of Labor and Representative to the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons
Nancy Donaldson
Director, Washington Office
International Labor Organization
Neha Misra
Senior Specialist Migration and Human Trafficking
Solidarity Center
Julia Ormond
Founder
Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking, and Former Goodwill Ambassador to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime
This hearing brought attention to the extremely lucrative criminal enterprise of human trafficking. Specific attention was focused on those who were most likely to be victims (i.e. people who were poor, had lost their jobs). Therefore, human trafficking, which involves forced labor, profits more in times of economic decline.
Relevant Countries
Leadership