Attorney General’s Annual Report to Congress on U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons Fiscal Year 2006 (PDF; 1.6 MB)

As this report has detailed, U.S. Government departments and agencies provide trafficking victims with a range of social services, both directly and through grantees; vigorously investigate and prosecute trafficking cases; and provide training, outreach, and assistance to domestic and international law enforcement and non-government organizations. The United States is aided by the modern tools created by the TVPA to address this ancient evil with a renewed and intensified vigor.

In his first policy address as Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales called trafficking “one of the most pernicious moral evils in the world today.” As Attorney General Gonzales stated, “This abomination does not exist only in other lands; it exists right here, on our shores. Today its victims are usually aliens, many of them women and children, smuggled into our country and held in bondage, treated as commodities, stripped of their humanity.”

The U.S. Government is committed to combating this moral evil with all the resources available to it. The fight against human trafficking is one of our highest priorities for ensuring justice in the United States and around the world.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice

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