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Attorney General's Annual Report to Congress and Assessment of U.S Attorney General’s Annual Report to Congress and Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons Fiscal Year 2013 Table of Contents I. Introduction .......................................................................................................................1 II. U.S. Governmental Measures and Activities Responding to FY 2013 Recommendations ............................................................................................................7 III. FY 2014 Recommendations .............................................................................................20 IV. Benefits and Services Given Domestically to Trafficking Victims ..............................22 A. Department of Health and Human Services ..................................................................22 B. Department of Homeland Security ................................................................................34 C. Department of Justice ....................................................................................................36 D. Department of Labor .....................................................................................................46 E. Department of State .......................................................................................................46 F. Legal Services Corporation ...........................................................................................47 V. Immigration Benefits for Trafficking Victims ..............................................................48 A. Department of Homeland Security ...............................................................................48 B. Department of Labor .....................................................................................................54 C. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ..............................................................54 D. Federal Bureau of Investigation ....................................................................................54 VI. Investigations, Prosecutions, and Sentences ..................................................................55 A. Investigations ................................................................................................................55 1. Federal Bureau of Investigation ..........................................................................55 2. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement .....................................................57 3. Department of Labor ...........................................................................................58 4. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security .......................................59 5. Department of Defense .......................................................................................60 6. ACTeams ............................................................................................................61 B. Prosecutions ..................................................................................................................61 C. Sentences .......................................................................................................................63 VII. International Grants to Combat Trafficking ...............................................................64 A. Department of Labor .....................................................................................................64 B. Department of State .......................................................................................................65 C. U.S. Agency for International Development .................................................................73 VIII. Training, Outreach, and Public Awareness Efforts .....................................................77 A. Department of Defense .................................................................................................77 i B. Department of Education ..............................................................................................80 C. Department of Health and Human Services ..................................................................82 D. Department of Homeland Security ...............................................................................92 E. Department of Justice ....................................................................................................94 F. Department of Labor....................................................................................................109 G. Department of State ....................................................................................................109 H. Department of Transportation .....................................................................................116 I. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ...........................................................117 J. Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center .................................................................118 K. U.S. Agency for International Development .............................................................119 IX. Department of State Professional Exchanges, Outreach to Foreign Governments, and Multilateral Affairs .......................................................................120 A. Professional Exchanges...............................................................................................120 B. Outreach to Foreign Governments ..............................................................................121 C. Multilateral Affairs ......................................................................................................123 X. Actions to Enforce 22 U.S.C. § 7104(g) ........................................................................126 A. Department of Defense ...............................................................................................126 B. Department of Education ............................................................................................128 C. Department of Homeland Security ..............................................................................128 D. Department of Justice..................................................................................................128 E. Department of State .....................................................................................................128 F. Department of Transportation......................................................................................129 G. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ............................................................129 H. U.S. Agency for International Development ..............................................................129 XI. Intra- and Interagency Coordination...........................................................................130 XII. Conclusion ......................................................................................................................133 Appendices Appendix A: BJA/OVC Human Trafficking Task Forces..........................................................135 Appendix B: NIJ’s FY 2013 Research and Evaluation Grants ...................................................136 Appendix C: Criminal Cases ......................................................................................................137 Appendix D: Title VII Cases ......................................................................................................143 Appendix E: U.S. Governmental Funds Obligated in FY 2013 for Human Trafficking Projects ..................................................................................................................145 ii I. Introduction [F]or more than a century, we have made it a national mission to bring slavery and human trafficking to an end. My Administration has been deeply committed to carrying this legacy forward – beginning with trafficking that happens on our own shores. We have strengthened protections so all workers know their rights, expanded efforts to identify and serve domestic victims, devoted new resources to dismantling trafficking networks, and put more traffickers behind bars than ever before. In the months ahead, we will continue to take action by empowering investigators and law enforcement with the training they need, and by engaging businesses, advocates, and students in developing cutting-edge tools people can use to stay safe. We will invest in helping trafficking victims rebuild their lives. And as one of the world’s largest purchasers of goods and services, the Federal Government will keep leading by example, further strengthening protections to help ensure that American tax dollars never support forced labor. ~ President Barack Obama1 [W]e will never be able to make the progress we need on our own . We must work with victims and victim advocates to extend our impact in helping to make lives whole again. And we must do even more to reach out—across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors—and engage additional local, state, tribal, federal, and international partners in fulfilling the responsibilities that we all share. Only by working together can the United States continue to be a leader in the global fight against human trafficking. Only by working together can we protect and extend the progress that’s been made—by generations of activists, advocates, and abolitionists. Only by working together can we honor our most fundamental American ideals—that we are inextricably connected to, and must care about, each other; that the strength of
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