Attorney General’s Annual Report to 

Congress on U.S. Government Activities 

to Combat Trafficking in Persons 

Fiscal Year 2006 

May 2007
I. Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 1 

II. Benefits and Services Given Domestically to Trafficking Victims..................................... 3 

A. Department of Health and Human Services.......................................................................... 4 

1. Certifications and Letters of Eligibility ............................................................................. 4 

2. Service Provision ............................................................................................................... 5 

B. Department of Justice............................................................................................................ 5 

1. Bureau of Justice Assistance.............................................................................................. 5 

2. Office for Victims of Crime............................................................................................... 6 

C. Department of Homeland Security........................................................................................ 8 

D. Department of State .............................................................................................................. 8 

E. Department of Labor ............................................................................................................. 9 

F. Legal Services Corporation ................................................................................................. 10 

III. Immigration Benefits for Trafficking Victims ................................................................. 10 

IV. Investigations, Prosecutions, and Sentences ..................................................................... 12 

A. Investigations ...................................................................................................................... 12 

1. Federal Bureau of Investigation....................................................................................... 12 

2. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement .................................................................. 14 

3. Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center...................................................................... 15 

4. Department of Labor........................................................................................................ 16 

B. Prosecutions ........................................................................................................................ 16 

C. Sentences............................................................................................................................. 18 

V. International Grants to Combat Trafficking ..................................................................... 18 

VI. Training and Outreach ....................................................................................................... 21 

A. Domestic Law Enforcement Training................................................................................. 21 

1. Department of Justice ...................................................................................................... 21 

2. Department of Homeland Security .................................................................................. 24 

3. Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center...................................................................... 26 

B. International Law Enforcement Training............................................................................ 26 

1. Department of Justice ...................................................................................................... 26 

2. Department of Homeland Security .................................................................................. 30 

3. Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center...................................................................... 32 

4. Department of State ......................................................................................................... 32 

C. Outreach to Nongovernmental Organizations..................................................................... 33 

1. Department of Homeland Security .................................................................................. 33 

2. Department of Justice ...................................................................................................... 33 

3. Department of State and USAID ..................................................................................... 34 

D. Department of Health & Human Services Public Awareness Campaign/Street Outreach 

Grants........................................................................................................................................ 34 

1. Street Outreach Grants..................................................................................................... 34 

2. Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking Public Awareness Campaign ........... 36 

3. Local Coalitions............................................................................................................... 37 

4. Training and Technical Assistance .................................................................................. 38 

5. International Discretionary Grants................................................................................... 38 
E. Department of State Outreach to Foreign Governments ..................................................... 39 

VII. President’s Interagency Trafficking Task Force & Senior Policy Operating Group .. 40 

VIII. Conclusion......................................................................................................................... 41 

Appendix A: BJA / OVC Human Trafficking Task Forces (42) ........................................... 42 

Appendix B: Examples of Cases ............................................................................................... 43 

1. Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division .............................................................................. 43 

2. ICE Investigations................................................................................................................ 49 

3. Criminal Division, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section............................................ 51 

Appendix C: United States Government Funds Obligated in FY 2006 for Anti-Trafficking 

in Persons Projects...................................................................................................................... 54 

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I. Introduction 

Human trafficking is an offense against human dignity, a crime in which human beings, many of 

them teenagers and young children, are bought and sold and often sexually abused by violent 

criminals. Our nation is determined to fight and end this modern form of slavery. 

~ President George W. Bush, January 2006 

Human trafficking is a violation of the human body, mind and spirit. For this vile practice to be 

taking place in a country that the world looks to as a beacon of freedom... is a terrible irony and 

an utter tragedy. 

~ Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, October 2006 

Trafficking in persons (TIP), or human trafficking, is a regrettably widespread form of 

modern-day slavery. Traffickers often prey on individuals, predominantly women and children 

in certain countries, who are poor, frequently unemployed or underemployed, and who may lack 

access to social safety nets. Victims are often lured with false promises of good jobs and better 

lives, and then forced to work under brutal and inhuman conditions. It is difficult to accurately 

estimate the extent of victimization in this crime whose perpetrators go to great lengths to keep it 

hidden. Nonetheless, the United States has led the world in the fight against this terrible crime. 

The centerpiece of U.S. Government efforts to eliminate trafficking in persons is the 

Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), Pub. L. 106-386, signed into law on 

October 28, 2000. The TVPA enhanced three aspects of federal government activity to combat 

TIP: protection, prosecution, and prevention. The TVPA provided for a range of new protections 

and assistance for victims of trafficking in persons; it expanded the crimes and enhanced the 

penalties available to federal investigators and prosecutors pursuing traffickers; and it expanded 

the U.S. Government’s international activities to prevent victims from being trafficked. The 

TVPA defines trafficking in persons as “sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced 

by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 

18 years of age” or “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a 

person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of 

subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.” 22 U.S.C. § 7102(8). 

Specifically, the TVPA: 

• Provided for victim assistance in the United States by making trafficking victims eligible for 

federally funded or administered health and other benefits and services; mandated U.S. 

Government protections for victims of trafficking and, where applicable, their families; 

outlined protections from removal, including T non-immigrant status for trafficking victims 

over the age of 18 who cooperate with law enforcement in the investigation and prosecution 

of trafficking (victims under 18 are not required to cooperate in order to receive immigration 

benefits); and allowed T non-immigrant status holders to adjust to permanent resident status; 

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• Created new crimes and enhanced penalties for existing crimes, including forced labor, 

trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, sex trafficking of 

children, sex trafficking of adults by force, fraud or coercion, and unlawful conduct with 

respect to documents; criminalized attempts to engage in these behaviors; and provided for 

mandatory restitution and forfeiture; 

• Provided for assistance to foreign countries in drafting laws to prohibit and punish acts of 

trafficking and strengthen investigation and prosecution of traffickers; created programs to 

assist victims; and expanded U.S. Government exchange and international visitor programs 

focused on trafficking in persons; and 

• Created the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking to coordinate the 

U.S. Government’s anti-trafficking efforts. The TVPA directed the Task Force, among other 

activities, to: (1) measure and evaluate progress of the United States and other countries in 

the areas of trafficking prevention, protection, and assistance to victims; (2) expand 

interagency procedures to collect and organize data; (3) engage in efforts to facilitate 

cooperation among countries; (4) examine the role of the international sex tourism industry; 

and (5) engage in consultation and advocacy with governmental and non-governmental 

organizations. 

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 (TVPRA 2003), Pub. L. 

108-193, signed into law by President Bush on December 19, 2003, reauthorized the TVPA and 

added responsibilities to the U.S. Government’s anti-trafficking portfolio. In particular, the 

TVPRA 2003 mandated new information campaigns to combat sex tourism, added refinements 

to the federal criminal law provisions, and created a new civil action that allows trafficking 

victims to sue their traffickers in federal district court. In addition, the TVPRA 2003 required an 

annual report from the Attorney General to Congress. This report was mandated to provide 

information on the following U.S. Government activities to combat trafficking in persons: 

• The number of persons in the United States who received benefits or other services under 

section 107(b) of the TVPA in connection with programs or activities funded or administered 

by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Labor, the Board of the 

Directors of the Legal Services Corporation, and other appropriate federal agencies during 

the previous Fiscal Year; 

• The number of persons who had been granted “continued presence” in the United States 

under TVPA section 107(c)(3) during the previous Fiscal Year; 

• The number of persons who applied for, had been granted, or had been denied T nonimmigrant status or otherwise provided status under section 101(a)(15)(T)(i) of the 

Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15)(T)(i)) during the previous Fiscal 

Year; 

• The number of persons who were charged or convicted under one or more of sections 1581, 

1583, 1584, 1589, 1590, 1591, 1592, or 1594 of title 18, United States Code, during the 

previous Fiscal Year, and the sentences imposed against each such person; 

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• The amount, recipient, and purpose of each grant issued by any federal agency to carry out 

the purposes of sections 106 and 107 of the Act, or section 134 of the Foreign Assistance Act 

of 1961, during the previous Fiscal Year; 

• The nature of training conducted pursuant to section 107(c)(4) during the previous Fiscal 

Year; and 

• The activities undertaken by the Senior Policy Operating Group (SPOG) on Trafficking in 

Persons to carry out its responsibilities under section 105(f) of the TVPRA 2003 during the 

previous Fiscal Year. 

On January 10, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Trafficking Victims Protection 

Reauthorization Act of 2005 (TVPRA 2005), Pub. L. 109-164. The TVPRA 2005 reauthorized 

the TVPA and authorized new anti-trafficking resources, including grant programs to assist state 

and local law enforcement efforts in combating TIP and to expand victim assistance programs to 

U.S. citizens or resident aliens subjected to trafficking; pilot programs to establish residential 

rehabilitative facilities for trafficking victims, including one program aimed at juveniles; and 

extraterritorial jurisdiction over trafficking offenses committed overseas by persons employed by 

or accompanying the federal government. The TVPRA 2005 also expanded the reporting 

requirements of the TVPRA 2003, providing for the inclusion of information in the annual report 

to Congress on the amount, recipient, and purpose of each grant under sections 202 and 204 of 

the TVPRA 2005. 

This report, the fourth required under the TVPRA 2003, is submitted to Congress in 

compliance with that directive. It details U.S. Government activities to combat TIP during Fiscal 

Year 2006 (FY 06), with a focus on the categories above. 

II. Benefits and Services Given Domestically to Trafficking Victims 

The success of U.S. Government efforts to combat trafficking in persons domestically 

hinges on pursuing a victim-centered approach. All U.S. Government agencies are therefore 

committed to providing victims with access to the services and benefits provided by the TVPA. 

Because government benefits for non-U.S. citizen victims are typically tied to a person’s 

immigration status, the TVPA created a mechanism for allowing certain non-citizen trafficking 

victims access to benefits and services from which they might otherwise be barred. The funds 

provided under the TVPA by the federal government for direct services to victims are dedicated to 

assist non-U.S. citizen victims and may not currently be used to assist U.S. citizen victims; however, 

U.S. citizen victims have access to other federal crime victim benefits. Under sections 107(b)(1) 

and (b)(2) of the TVPA, various federal agencies must extend some existing benefits to trafficking 

victims and are authorized to provide grants to effectuate such assistance. This section reviews the 

activities of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Justice 

(DOJ), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of State (DOS), the 

Department of Labor (DOL), and the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) to implement sections 

107(b) and 107(c) of the TVPA. 

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A. Department of Health and Human Services 

The TVPA designates the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the 

agency responsible for helping victims of human trafficking become eligible to receive benefits 

and services so they may rebuild their lives safely in the United States. The HHS anti-trafficking 

program in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Refugee Resettlement 

(ORR): (1) certifies non-U.S. citizen victims of human trafficking; (2) provides outreach and 

education to service providers, non-governmental organizations, and state and local governments 

on the phenomenon of trafficking; (3) awards discretionary grants designed to provide outreach 

and direct services to victims; (4) awards contracts designed to provide support to intermediary 

organizations who lead anti-trafficking efforts in localities and regions; (5) administers a public 

awareness campaign designed to rescue and restore victims of trafficking; and (6) provides 

services and case management to victims of trafficking through a network of service providers 

across the United States. 

1. Certifications and Letters of Eligibility 

 Section 107(b)(1)(E) of the TVPA states that the Secretary of Health and Human 

Services, after consultation with the Attorney General, may certify an adult victim of a severe 

form of trafficking who: (1) is willing to assist in every reasonable way in the investigation and 

prosecution of severe forms of trafficking in persons; and (2) has made a bona fide application 

for a visa under section 101(a)(15)(T) of the Immigration and Nationality Act that has not been 

denied; or is a person whose continued presence in the United States the Attorney General is 

ensuring in order to effectuate prosecution of traffickers in persons. The TVPA authorizes the 

“certification” of adult victims to receive certain federally funded or federally administered 

benefits and services, such as cash assistance, medical care, food stamps, and housing. Though 

not required to be certified by HHS, minors who are determined to be victims of severe forms of 

trafficking receive “letters of eligibility” for the same types of services. 

On March 28, 2001, then-HHS Secretary Thompson delegated the authority to conduct 

human trafficking victim certification activities to the Assistant Secretary for ACF, who in turn 

re-delegated authority on April 18, 2002, to the Director of ORR. In FY 06, ORR issued 214 

certification letters to adults and 20 eligibility letters to minors for a total of 234 letters issued. 

Ninety-four percent of victims certified in FY 06 were female. 

These certifications and eligibility letters, combined with the 231 letters issued in FY 05, 

163 letters issued in FY 04, 151 letters issued in FY 03, 99 letters issued in FY 02, and the 198 

letters issued in FY 01, bring to 1076 the total number of letters issued during the first six fiscal 

years in which the program has operated. 

FY 06 certifications and letters were provided to victims or their representatives in 20 

states plus the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Certified victims 

came from over 40 countries, spanning the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific 

Islands. The majority of victims originated in Latin America (62 percent) with the largest 

numbers coming from El Salvador (28 percent) and Mexico (20 percent). Caseloads ranged 

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from individual victims recovered to large-scale raids of more than 100 potential victims 

identified in a single setting. 

2. Service Provision 

ORR has utilized both contracts and discretionary grants to create a network of service 

organizations available to assist victims of a severe form of human trafficking. In April 2006, 

ORR entered into a contract with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to provide 

comprehensive support services to victims of human trafficking. Through this contract, ORR 

has streamlined support services to help victims gain access to shelter, job training, and health 

care, and provided a mechanism for victims to receive vital emergency services prior to 

receiving certification. The contract with USCCB provides per capita services through a case 

management model to pre-certified and certified victims. Since the beginning of the program in 

April 2006 to the end of the fiscal year, 37 pre-certified and 109 certified victims received 

services through this contract by 42 organizations in 21 states that have joined in the effort 

through sub-agreements with USCCB. 

HHS continues to provide resources and options to law enforcement for minor victims of 

trafficking. Unaccompanied minors who are victims of trafficking are eligible for foster care 

administered through the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) program. This program 

offers a variety of care levels appropriate to the needs of the victim and enrolls unaccompanied 

trafficked minors as expeditiously as possible. ORR has also recently arranged for its Division 

of Unaccompanied Children’s Services (DUCS) program to accept unaccompanied trafficked 

minors and provide comparable services through a system of group homes and shelters. A twopage addendum to screen for signs of force, fraud, or coercion was added to the intake forms in 

DUCS shelters. This screening tool has resulted in referrals to law enforcement and new 

investigations. ACF also provides emergency shelter options for minors. Those options include 

State Child Protective Services, 336 Basic Centers located throughout the country, and the 193 

Transitional Living Programs for Older Homeless Youth supported by the Family and Youth 

Services Bureau. 

The HHS Trafficking Program was reviewed by OMB's Program Assessment Rating 

Tool in CY 2005 and received a rating of Moderately Effective. This review found that the 

program is well-managed, focused on achieving results, and has taken major steps to improve its 

design, management, and performance. The program has a long-term performance goal to 

increase the number of victims of trafficking certified to 800 per year by FY 2011. In addition, 

the program has two efficiency measures: (1) Increase the number of victims certified and served 

by the whole network of grantees per million dollars invested; (2) Increase media impressions, 

hotline calls, and website visits per thousand dollars invested. 

B. Department of Justice 

1. Bureau of Justice Assistance 

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), in a joint solicitation with Office for Victims of 

Crime (OVC), issued its third anti-human trafficking solicitation in March 2006. The solicitation 

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sought proposals from state, local, and territorial law enforcement agencies to partner with their 

local U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) and a comprehensive victim services agency (to be funded 

by OVC in the same solicitation) to create a victim centered human trafficking task force. 

Sixteen applications were received, and OJP approved ten awards for up to $450,000 to each 

recipient for a three-year period to work collaboratively with U.S. Attorneys, federal law 

enforcement, and trafficking victim services agencies (funded by OVC) to identify and rescue 

victims of human trafficking and prosecute traffickers. The new task forces are in Las Vegas, 

Nevada; Dallas, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; the state of Louisiana; Salt Lake City, Utah; Bexar 

County, Texas; Clearwater, Florida; the Northern Mariana Islands; Independence, Missouri; and 

Erie County, Pennsylvania. This brings the total number of BJA funded human trafficking task 

forces to 42. Please see Appendix A for a map that displays the location of all 42 task forces. 

Additionally, in 2006, BJA managed two congressionally mandated grants. The first, to 

the Center for Women Policy Studies, was a second supplement in the amount of $493,614. 

Through this earmark the Center assists state legislatures in developing state anti-TIP legislation. 

The second earmark, in the amount of $987,228, was awarded by BJA to Shared Hope 

International (SHI). Under this earmark, SHI is to assist two existing human trafficking task 

force awardees and the ten law enforcement agencies receiving 2006 BJA human trafficking task 

force awards in developing protocols that will better enable victims of trafficking who are U.S. 

citizens, primarily minors exploited for commercial sex, to obtain medical, psychological, legal, 

and other services that are appropriate for victims of human trafficking. 

2. Office for Victims of Crime 

The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) continues to work collaboratively with BJA to 

administer the Services for Trafficking Victims Discretionary Grant Program. As discussed 

above, OVC and BJA issued a joint call for concept papers in 2005 and released a joint 

solicitation in March 2006. As a result of these efforts, OVC awarded a total of $12,259,676 in 

funding to support 30 new and continuation projects to work collaboratively with the law 

enforcement task forces funded by BJA, ensuring the provision of comprehensive services to 

victims of human trafficking throughout the United States. 

Comprehensive services grants enable the grantee organization to provide direct services 

to meet the broad range of trafficking victims’ needs, including case management; legal 

advocacy; medical, dental, and mental health services; housing; clothing and daily sustenance; 

interpretation; transportation; and access to a broad range of job skills training, education, and 

other social services. These services are intended primarily to assist victims for the period of 

time between when they are rescued by law enforcement and when they are certified to receive 

other benefits through HHS (the so-called “pre-certification period”). With prior written 

authorization from OVC, grantees may be allowed to provide some services to certified victims, 

such as case management, if there is no available provider. Grantees are expected to focus on 

the development of community collaborative efforts among a broad range of players, including 

other social service providers and local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, including 

the law enforcement anti-trafficking task forces funded through BJA. In addition to direct 

services, grantees use the funding to conduct public outreach and awareness activities on the 

issue of human trafficking and the needs of trafficking victims. Funding also covers training and 

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evaluation activities, and the award special conditions mandate a 5 percent set-aside of the total 

project funding to cover these activities. 

According to service data provided by grantees through progress reporting, the top ten 

pre-certification services provided to trafficking victims include: transportation, emotional 

support, interpreter services, legal services (including immigration advocacy), explanation of 

legal rights and protections, information referrals, mental health counseling, food and clothing, 

medical care, and other services, such as general communications and follow-up visits. 

From the inception of the program in 2003 through December 2006, OVC’s grantees 

provided services to 1,775 pre-certified trafficking victims.* In addition, grantees have trained 

over 65,000 practitioners, including law enforcement officials, legal service providers, victim 

service providers, medical professionals, the faith-based community, and other allied 

professionals. 

Trafficking Victim Service Grant Recipients 

Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach (San Francisco, CA) 

Catholic Charities (San Antonio, TX) 

City of Indianapolis/Julian Center (Indianapolis, IN) 

Civil Society (St. Paul, MN) 

Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (Los Angeles, CA) 

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights (Chicago, IL) 

Hope House (Independence, MO) 

International Institute of Boston (Boston, MA) 

International Institute of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY) 

International Institute of Connecticut (Stamford, CT) 

International Institute of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) 

International Rescue Committee Miami (Miami, FL) 

International Rescue Committee Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ) 

International Rescue Committee Seattle (Seattle, WA) 

Karidat Social Services (Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) 

Mosaic Family Services (Dallas, TX) 

Refugee Women’s Network (Atlanta, GA) 

Refugee Services of Texas (Austin, TX) 

Safe Horizon (New York, NY)

Salvation Army (Honolulu, HI) 

Salvation Army (Las Vegas, NV) 

Salvation Army Western Territory (Long Beach, CA for sites in El Paso, TX; Denver, CO; 

Anchorage, AK)

The Tides Center (Salt Lake City, UT) 

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (Washington, D.C. for sites in DE, MD, NJ, PA)

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (Washington, D.C. for a site in Portland, OR)

World Relief Corporation (Baltimore, MD for site in Clearwater, FL) 

World Relief Corporation (Baltimore, MD for sites in High Point, NC; Nashville, TN; 

Jacksonville, FL; and Lee County, FL) 

YMCA of the Greater Houston Area (Houston, TX)

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 Because OVC does not track pre-certified victims by name or identifiable data, this number includes pre-certified 

victims who received services from more than one OVC grantee, thereby causing the victim to be counted twice. 

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A list of all OVC funded projects can be found on the OVC website at: 

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/help/traffickingmatrix.htm. 

C. Department of Homeland Security 

Government agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are 

required by statute to provide a range of services to all crime victims, including victims of 

human trafficking. In addition, the victim protections contained in section 107(c) of the TVPA 

and the Government’s victim-centered approach to human trafficking require additional services 

for victims who are in government custody. A regulation codified at 28 C.F.R. Part 1100, 

“Protection and Assistance for Victims of Trafficking,” articulates government responsibilities 

for providing information to trafficking victims and for training federal staff in identifying 

victims and providing services. 

ICE has officers and collateral duty agents†

 who are assigned victim assistance 

responsibilities. After rescuing victims of human trafficking, ICE agents make every effort to 

treat victims with respect and compassion. When large numbers of potential victims are rescued 

from a location, such as a brothel, it can be difficult to distinguish between victims and 

traffickers. Until determination of victim status can be made, ICE uses hotels, ICE detention 

centers, or other appropriate locations for housing victims and conducting interviews. When ICE 

detention centers are used, potential victims are housed separately from other detainees and 

teams of investigators, federal victim assistance staff, and non-governmental organizations 

(NGOs) work within the detention center to interview any potential victims. As soon as a 

determination of victim status is made, the victim is immediately transferred to the care of an 

NGO. Furthermore, federal agencies have developed a brochure that explains the rights of 

victims of trafficking and the services available to them, which has been translated into several 

languages. ICE agents and victim assistance staff ensure the brochure is read to victims in their 

native language through the use of interpreters if the victim is illiterate. 

For financial assistance to victims, the ICE Victim/Witness Assistance Program (VWAP) 

utilizes the Federal Crime Victim Assistance Fund for Victims of Crime, which is provided by 

OVC to ICE Special Agents in Charge to assist crime victims when local resources are not 

available. In FY 06, ICE used the fund to provide for: emergency housing and food for three 

Ukrainian victims in New York; emergency direct services for more than 100 Korean women in 

cases in New York, New Jersey, and Washington; emergency housing, food, and incidentals for 

four Mexican victims in New York; and emergency housing, food, and clothing for a juvenile 

human trafficking victim from Guatemala. These funds are essential to provide services for 

victims of trafficking, until the victims can be safely transferred to NGOs. 

D. Department of State 

DOS’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) launched the Return, 

Reintegration, and Family Reunification Program for Victims of Trafficking in the United States 

in 2005, to reunite eligible family members with trafficked persons in the United States, and 

†

 Collateral duty is an additional part time duty assigned outside the agent’s or officer’s regular duties and performed 

as the need arises. 

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assist victims who elect to return to their home country. This project was developed at PRM’s 

request as part of U.S. Government’s efforts in support of the TVPA. PRM’s implementing 

partner, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), works collaboratively with NGOs, 

law enforcement agencies, the faith-based community, and U.S. Government agencies to assist 

the families of identified trafficking victims. After receiving a T visa (discussed in Section III 

below), trafficked persons can bring their eligible family members to the United States, as 

provided for by the TVPA. The IOM may provide financial and logistical support for travel of 

immediate family members through pre-departure assistance with travel documents, 

transportation arrangements, airport assistance, and escorts for children. For trafficked persons 

who do not wish to avail themselves of the T visa benefits to remain in the United States, the 

program works to ensure safe return and reintegration assistance back to home communities. 

This may include pre-departure assistance, travel documentation, transportation, and reception 

upon arrival by IOM partners on the ground, when possible. Reintegration assistance may be 

provided through NGO partners to mitigate the chances of re-trafficking and may include: 

temporary shelter, health care, training and education, and small grants for income-generating 

activities. As of December 2006, this program assisted five trafficking victims who wished to 

return to their country of origin, and facilitated the family reunification of 46 family members 

with victims in the United States. In addition, there are some 55 on-going cases, most of which 

are for family reunification with TIP victims in the U.S. 

E. Department of Labor 

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) One-Stop Career Centers are available to provide 

employment and training services—notably job search assistance, career counseling, and 

occupational skills training—to victims of trafficking. These services are provided in 

accordance with the Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 19-01 issued by DOL’s 

Employment and Training Administration (ETA) in 2002 after the passage of the TVPA. In 

addition to informing the career centers about federal resources for victims of trafficking, the 

guidance letter notes that no state may deny services available to victims of severe forms of 

trafficking based on their immigration status. Any such services are provided directly by state 

and local grantees to trafficking victims, and ETA does not collect information on the extent to 

which such services are offered or utilized by trafficking victims. 

Used in the One-Stop Career Center’s Resource Room or accessed remotely on the 

Internet, the National Electronic Tools provide self-service access to career and 

workforce information. These tools include: America’s Career InfoNet (ACINet), America’s 

Service Locator (ASL), Toll-Free Help Line (TFHL), and the Occupational Information 

Network. 

The Job Corps program assists eligible youths in achieving a High School Diploma or 

GED, is available to provide vocational skill training and an array of life success skills to assist 

the youths in becoming employable and independent, and helps secure meaningful jobs or 

opportunities for further education. 

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LSC Grantees # of Persons Served 

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles 95 

Colorado Legal Services 19 

Georgia Legal Services 100 

Northwest Justice Project (WA) 2 

Micronesian Legal Services 19 

Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati 15 

Legal Services of the Virgin Islands 9 

Kansas Legal Services 3 

Legal Aid of West Virginia 2 

Legal Aid Foundation of Chicago 2 

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri 1 

Kentucky Legal Aid 1 

Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida 1 

TOTAL 269 

F. Legal Services Corporation 

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is a private, non-profit corporation established by 

Congress to fund legal aid programs throughout the nation to assist low-income persons with 

gaining access to the civil justice system. Under section 107(b) of the TVPA, LSC must make 

legal assistance available to trafficking victims, who often need assistance with immigration and 

other matters. LSC has issued guidance to all LSC program directors describing LSC’s 

obligations to provide legal services to trafficking victims. The current guidance is available at: 

http://www.rin.lsc.gov/Reference%20Materials//Refrmats/Progltrs/progltrs/05-2.htm 

In FY 06, thirteen LSC grantees assisted 269 trafficking victims, as shown in the chart 

below, an increase of 128 from FY 05. 

III. Immigration Benefits for Trafficking Victims 

Trafficking victims in the United States are eligible to receive two types of immigration 

relief—Continued Presence (CP) and T nonimmigrant status, also known as a “T visa.” The 

Parole and Humanitarian Assistance Branch (PHAB) grants CP, and DHS’s U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services (USCIS) grants T status. DHS provides notification of approvals to HHS, 

which issues the certification under section 107(b) of the TVPA as described above. 

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“Continued Presence” is a temporary status, applied for by a law enforcement officer, 

that permits an alien to be legally present in the United States during the pendency of the 

investigation. It is granted to trafficking victims in accordance with section 107(c)(3) of the 

TVPA. Pursuant to 28 C.F.R. Part 1103, DHS has the authority to grant CP to victims of severe 

forms of trafficking who are potential witnesses in the investigation or prosecution. CP requests 

are reviewed and, when warranted, authorized by the PHAB, pursuant to authority delegated to it 

by the Secretary of Homeland Security. 

When the PHAB authorizes CP, the approved application is forwarded to the USCIS 

Vermont Service Center for production of an employment authorization document and an I-94, 

Arrival/Departure Record. CP is initially authorized for a period of one year; however, an 

extension of CP may be authorized if the investigation is ongoing. 

In FY 06, the PHAB received 117 requests for CP. Of these, 112 requests were 

authorized and five requests were withdrawn by the requesting federal law enforcement agencies 

because there was insufficient evidence to substantiate that the individual was a victim of a 

severe form of human trafficking as defined in the TVPA. PHAB also received 80 requests for 

extensions to existing CP and all extensions were authorized. The majority of extensions related 

to an ICE investigation in Long Island involving Peruvian victims of forced labor. 

CP Requests 

in FY 06 

Number 

Awarded 

Number 

Withdrawn 

Requests for 

Extensions 

Extensions 

Authorized 

117 112 5 80 80 

Countries Represented Countries with Highest 

Number of Victims 

Cities with Most 

CP Requests 

24 Mexico, El Salvador, and Houston, Newark, and New 

South Korea York 

Through the task forces, more than 36,000 law enforcement officers and other persons 

likely to come into contact with victims of human trafficking have been trained on the 

identification of trafficking and its victims. During 2006, the BJA Human Trafficking Task 

Forces identified 955 potential victims of human trafficking. Continued presence‡ was requested 

on behalf of 103 of these victims. The cumulative total of potential victims that have been 

identified by BJA funded task forces during two years of operation is now 1,513 with 256 

persons having had continued presence requested on their behalf by federal law enforcement. 

‡

 Continued presence is a much misunderstood concept—it is granted so that a foreign victim may be present in the 

U. S. during the investigation of the offense and prosecution of the offender. Therefore, any U. S. citizen or legal 

resident victims that are potential victims of human trafficking will not need continued presence, nor will they be 

counted in this number; and potential victims who refuse to be interviewed or to respond truthfully in an interview to 

determine whether they are a victim of a severe form of trafficking (VSFT) often do not receive continued presence 

absent other evidence they are a VSFT. Additionally, some trafficking victims, who apply directly for a T visa, may 

do so without having continued presence requested on their behalf. These are major factors that influence the drop 

from the count of potential victims of human trafficking to persons having continued presence requested on their 

behalf by federal law enforcement. 

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Victims may also petition USCIS to receive a T nonimmigrant status, which is available 

to an alien who (1) is a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons, (2) is physically present 

in or at a port-of-entry to the United States (as defined in the immigration laws), American 

Samoa, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on account of human trafficking, 

(3) has complied with reasonable requests for assistance in the investigation and prosecution of 

acts of trafficking, or is less than 18 years old, and (4) would suffer extreme hardship involving 

unusual and severe harm upon removal. Victims who receive T nonimmigrant status are eligible 

to remain the United States for up to four years, and their status may be extended if the law 

enforcement authority investigating or prosecuting activity related to human trafficking certifies 

that the presence of the alien in the United States is necessary to assist in the investigation or 

prosecution of such activity. After three years, T nonimmigrants are eligible to apply for 

adjustment of status to lawful permanent residence subject to certain statutory criteria.. § See the 

chart below for numbers of persons who applied for, who were granted, and who were denied T 

visas in FY 06. 

Applications for T visas FY 06 

Victims 

Applied 346 

Approved* 182 

Denied** 46 

Family of Victims 

Applied 301 

Approved* 106 

Denied** 39 

* Some approvals are from prior fiscal year(s) filings. 

** Some applicants have been denied twice (i.e., filed once, were denied, filed again). 

IV. Investigations, Prosecutions, and Sentences 

A. Investigations 

Several federal agencies conduct investigations of trafficking in persons, with the 

majority of investigations undertaken by agents in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 

agents and in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

1. Federal Bureau of Investigation 

Special agents in the Civil Rights Unit (CRU) at FBI Headquarters and in field offices 

around the country investigate trafficking in the United States. FBI Legal Attachés at U.S. 

§

 Victims who receive a T visa are eligible to remain the United States for up to four years and their status may be 

extended if the law enforcement authority investigating or prosecuting activity related to human trafficking certifies 

that the presence of the alien in the United States is necessary to assist in the investigation or prosecution of such 

activity. After three years, T visa holders are eligible to apply for lawful permanent residence subject to certain 

statutory criteria. 

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embassies around the world support investigations with international links. In addition, FBI 

agents in the CRU coordinate with agents in the Organized Crime and Crimes Against Children 

Units to ensure that cases initially identified as smuggling cases, Internet crimes against children, 

and/or sex tourism are also identified for potential human trafficking elements. 

On August 30, 2005, the FBI began its Human Trafficking Initiative. The initiative 

involved the FBI’s field offices determining, via a threat assessment, the existence and scope of 

the trafficking problem in their region; participating in an anti-trafficking task force; establishing 

and maintaining relationships with local NGOs and community organizations; conducting 

victim-centered investigations; and reporting significant case developments to the CRU. To 

date, the FBI participates in the 42 human trafficking task forces, and 56 Civil Rights Program 

Threat Assessments have been conducted. A review and analysis of these assessments is 

currently underway to determine the nature and scope of human trafficking in the United States. 

In FY 06, the FBI opened 126 trafficking investigations, made 140 arrests, filed 49 

complaints and 97 informations/indictments, and had 69 convictions in human trafficking 

investigations. (These numbers are different from the prosecution numbers listed elsewhere in 

this report, as the FBI does not participate in every human trafficking investigation.) 

In addition, the FBI’s Crimes Against Children Unit continued to combat the exploitation 

of children in prostitution in the United States through the Innocence Lost National Initiative. In 

June 2003, the FBI, in partnership with the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) of 

DOJ’s Criminal Division and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children 

(NCMEC), implemented the “Innocence Lost National Initiative” to address the growing 

problem of children exploited in prostitution. State and local law enforcement, as well as local 

NGOs, are key partners in the metropolitan areas where Innocence Lost National Initiative task 

forces operate. The Innocence Lost National Initiative uses a task force approach in targeted 

cities across the country to identify victims, provide needed services, and prosecute offenders. 

As of September 2006, the initiative was expanded to 26 cities with an identified child 

prostitution crime problem, with 23 task forces/working groups established. 

Innocence Lost task forces/working groups currently exist in the following cities: Miami 

and Jacksonville, Florida; Toledo, Ohio; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Dallas and Houston, 

Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Atlantic City, New Jersey; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Phoenix, 

Arizona; Detroit, Michigan; San Francisco, Sacramento, and Los Angeles, California; 

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Honolulu, Hawaii; Denver, Colorado; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 

Chicago, Illinois; New York City, New York; Washington, D.C.; and Indianapolis, Indiana. 

In FY 06, the Innocence Lost National Initiative resulted in 103 open investigations, 157 

arrests, 76 informations/indictments, and 43 convictions. From its inception through September 

30, 2006, the Innocence Lost National Initiative has resulted in 241 investigations (67 in 2004, 

71 in 2005, and 103 in 2006), 662 arrests (118 in 2004, 387 in 2005, and 157 in 2006), 151 

informations/indictments (27 in 2004, 48 in 2005, and 76 in 2006), 110 convictions (22 in 2004, 

45 in 2005, and 43 in 2006), and the recovery and/or identification of more than 300 children. 

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2. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

ICE strives to disrupt and dismantle domestic and international criminal organizations 

that engage in human trafficking by utilizing all ICE authorities and resources in a cohesive, 

multifaceted, global enforcement approach. ICE not only investigates criminal violations of 

human trafficking laws but also pursues removal from the United States of those traffickers who 

are aliens. Simultaneously, ICE agents work to assist the victims of these crimes to ensure they 

receive the benefits for which they qualify. 

Within ICE, oversight of the enforcement of the TVPA lies with the Human Smuggling 

and Trafficking Unit in the Office of Investigations. The responsibility for human trafficking 

investigations is under the purview of ICE domestic field offices and Attaché offices overseas, 

who investigate cases of U.S. citizens traveling abroad for the purpose of sexually exploiting 

children, also known as child sex tourism. The responsibility for ensuring victim assistance lies 

with over 300 collateral-duty ICE Victim-Witness Coordinators (VWC) working in the Office of 

Investigations, Office of Detention and Removal Operations, and the Federal Protective Service. 

The ICE Asset Identification and Removal Group follows the trail of the illicit proceeds of 

organizations trafficking in humans. This unit targets the finances and assets of trafficking 

organizations and focuses on civil asset forfeiture. The ICE Law Enforcement Support Center 

(LESC) serves as a national enforcement operations center and provides timely information on 

the status and identities of aliens. The LESC enhances ICE’s ability to rapidly arrest and 

maintain custody of potential traffickers on immigration charges while further investigations are 

being completed. ICE agents coordinate cases with DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and CEOS as 

appropriate. 

In FY 06, ICE opened 299 human trafficking investigations, which consisted of 85 

investigations of forced labor and 214 investigations of commercial sexual exploitation. During 

FY 06, ICE made 184 arrests as a result human trafficking investigations, which led to 130 

informations (a prosecutor filed charging document) or indictments and 102 convictions. 

ICE also investigates the sexual exploitation of children overseas by U.S. citizens. Since 

the PROTECT Act was enacted in 2003, ICE has conducted over 299 investigations of child sex 

tourism. The ICE Cyber Crimes Center is responsible for worldwide oversight and management 

of these child sex tourism investigations. In FY 06, 65 investigations were initiated resulting in 

arrests of 19 individuals for child sex tourism violations. Child sex tourism cases are among the 

most difficult cases to investigate. The child victims are frequently from very poor families in 

rural areas of underdeveloped countries. Often, ICE agents must travel for days to reach the site 

of the crime. Investigators must then face the obstacle of identifying the victim and bringing the 

children back to the United States to testify against the perpetrator. Prior to trial, many children 

and their families simply disappear back to rural villages, some “paid off” by often wealthy 

defendants. 

In addition to these efforts, ICE operates “Operation Predator” to safeguard children from 

foreign national sex offenders, international sex tourists, Internet child pornographers, and 

human traffickers. Since 2003, the initiative has resulted in more than 9,000 arrests, an average 

of more than eight arrests per day. There were 2,381 arrests in 2006. Operation Predator has an 

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important international component as leads developed by domestic ICE offices are shared with 

ICE Attaché offices overseas and foreign law enforcement. Leads shared with foreign 

authorities have resulted in more than 1,000 arrests overseas. Furthermore, when ICE removes 

Operation Predator targets from the United States, it takes measures to ensure that these 

individuals do not prey on others upon return to their country of origin, notifying the receiving 

country through INTERPOL of the return of a criminal who is likely to reoffend. 

3. Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center 

The Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center (the Center) is a joint venture of 

prosecutorial, law enforcement, policy, intelligence, and consular arenas to combat trafficking in 

persons, migrant smuggling, and clandestine terrorist travel. Authorized by the Intelligence 

Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-458), DHS, DOJ, and DOS 

established the Center to serve as the federal government’s information clearinghouse and 

intelligence fusion center for all federal agencies addressing human trafficking, human 

smuggling, and the potential use of human smuggling networks by known or suspected terrorists. 

By co-locating representatives from the participating federal agencies, the Center facilitates the 

exchange of information to support each prong of the U.S. strategy to counter trafficking in 

persons: (1) prevention and deterrence of trafficking activities, (2) investigation and prosecution 

of the criminals involved in such activities, and (3) the protection of and assistance for victims as 

provided in applicable law and policy. This three-part, interrelated strategic agenda has both 

domestic and international components. 

The HSTC is the official point of contact for INTERPOL on trafficking matters, and has 

established direct ties to other international organizations such as EUROPOL and the United 

Nations ONDCP Anti-Human Trafficking Unit. 

The Center’s ability to convert relevant intelligence into law enforcement action and to 

enhance ongoing human trafficking criminal investigations provided an invaluable benefit to 

United States’ anti-trafficking in persons efforts. During 2006, the Center supported antitrafficking efforts by reviewing over 500 cables and intelligence reports in classified and 

unclassified systems for intelligence, leads, and information relative to human trafficking trends; 

providing specific case assistance; disseminating intelligence to the appropriate operational 

components; and assisting federal law enforcement intelligence units. 

Agencies that contribute intelligence and information concerning human trafficking to the 

Center collect that information directly and indirectly. The Center has the ability to review 

information for potential human trafficking indicators, perform preliminary checks to follow-up 

on that information, and, when warranted, make sure the information is delivered to the 

appropriate parties for further investigation. Human trafficking information received by the 

Center may be collected collaterally by the U.S. intelligence community, law enforcement 

officials, or may be contained within a consulate interview at a U.S. Embassy. 

To insure that law enforcement investigations are effectively targeted at trafficking 

vulnerabilities, the Center prepares strategic assessments to identify where TIP resources should 

be allocated. At the direction of the 2004 U.S.-Canada Cross Border Crime Forum, the Center 

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joined in completing the 2006 Bi-National Assessment of Trafficking in Persons. This 

assessment of transnational trafficking and its impact on cross-border criminality was presented 

at the 2006 Cross Border Crime Forum and was prepared jointly by the Center, DHS, and DOJ, 

along with Canadian counterparts Justice Canada, the Portfolio of Public Safety and Emergency 

Preparedness Canada, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. 

Along with the Bi-National Assessment, in 2006, the Center completed an analysis of the 

linkage between trafficking in persons and terrorism, including the use of profits from trafficking 

in persons to finance terrorism. The report is mandated by section 104 of the TVPRA 2005. 

4. Department of Labor 

Law enforcement efforts to investigate trafficking in persons also include those of DOL, 

which continues to increase its emphasis on compliance with labor standards laws, such as the 

Fair Labor Standards Act and Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, in lowwage industries like garment manufacturing and agriculture. DOL civil law enforcement 

responsibilities relating to trafficking are carried out by the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) 

with the support of the Office of the Solicitor. WHD investigators interview workers and assess 

situations where workers may have been intimidated, threatened, or held against their will. 

WHD investigators also review payroll records and inspect migrant farm worker housing. 

Additionally, WHD coordinates with other law enforcement agencies to ensure restitution on 

behalf of victims of trafficking. Criminal enforcement agents from DOL’s Office of the 

Inspector General have worked with their FBI and ICE counterparts on a growing number of 

criminal investigations, particularly those involving organized crime groups. 

B. Prosecutions 

The Criminal Section of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, in collaboration with U.S. 

Attorneys’ Offices nationwide, has principal responsibility for prosecuting human trafficking 

crimes, except for cases involving trafficking in children. Within DOJ’s Criminal Division, the 

Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) historically has taken a leading role in the 

prosecution of cases of sex trafficking of minors and child sex tourism. 

In FY 06, the Civil Rights Division’s anti-trafficking efforts resulted in a record number 

of defendants charged and convicted in a single year, while the number of investigations 

increased more than 20 percent over FY 05 (167 vs. 138). In FY 06, the Civil Rights Division 

and United States Attorneys’ Offices initiated prosecutions against 111 traffickers, which is 

higher than the number charged in FY 05 (96) and more than twice the number charged in FY 04 

(47). More than 80 percent of those defendants were charged with violations under the TVPA 

and about two-thirds of all prosecutions involved sexual exploitation and abuse. The Criminal 

Section of the Civil Rights Division maintains the Trafficking in Persons and Worker 

Exploitation Task Force (TPWETF) complaint line (1-877-428-7581) to receive allegations from 

victims who are ready to report to law enforcement. Since its inception, more than one-fourth of 

all trafficking investigations have been initiated through such calls, which ultimately resulted in 

34 traffickers being charged. 

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The following two charts list the numbers of defendants charged, prosecuted, and 

convicted of trafficking offenses and offenses under the TVPA since FY 01. Defendants 

charged in FY 06 with a trafficking offense are not necessarily the same defendants convicted 

and sentenced in FY 06. (These figures do not include CEOS prosecutions of child trafficking 

and child sex tourism.) 

All Trafficking Prosecutions ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 

Cases Filed 

Labor 6 3 2 3 9 10 

Sex 4 7 8 23 26 22 

Total 10 10 11 26 35 32 

Defendants Charged 

Labor 12 14 6 7 21 26 

Sex 26 27 21 40 75 85 

Total 38 41 27 47 96 111 

Convictions 

Labor 8 5 5 3 10 38 

Sex 15 23 16 30 25 60 

Total 23 28 21 33 35 98 

TVPA Prosecutions ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 

Cases Filed 

Labor 3 2 3 1 8 10 

Sex 2 5 7 9 19 12 

Total 5 7 10 10 27 22 

Defendants Charged 

Labor 5 8 6 5 19 28 

Sex 6 13 20 19 64 64

Total 11 21 26 24 83 92 

Convictions 

Labor 2 0 5 0 7 30 

Sex 3 6 13 14 19 49 

Total 5 6 18 14 26 79 

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In addition to these trafficking cases, since the passage of the PROTECT Act in April 

2003, which facilitated the prosecution of child sex tourism cases, there have been approximately 

55 child sex tourism indictments/complaints and approximately 36 convictions. As noted above, 

in April 2003, the United States strengthened its ability to fight child sex tourism through the 

passage of the PROTECT Act and the TVPRA 2003. These laws broaden statutory prohibitions 

against child sex tourism in several ways, increase the penalties for statutory violations, and 

provide added protections for victims. Among other things, the PROTECT Act enhances the 

ability to prosecute child sex tourism by broadening the statute’s coverage to include persons 

coming to the United States to engage in illicit sexual activity as well as persons who operate 

child sex tours, and making it a crime to engage in illicit sexual conduct while traveling in 

foreign commerce, regardless of whether that was the intended purpose of the travel. 

Please see Appendix B for examples of recent trafficking in persons and child sex 

tourism investigations and prosecutions. 

C. Sentences 

In order to present data regarding sentences, DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reviewed 

the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) criminal case database to make a 

preliminary calculation of the average length of sentence for cases completed in FY 06 that 

involved the trafficking offenses under sections 1581 (peonage), 1583 (enticement for slavery), 

1584 (sale into involuntary servitude), 1589 (forced labor), 1590 (trafficking with respect to 

peonage/slavery/involuntary servitude/forced labor), 1591 (sex trafficking of children or by 

force, fraud or coercion), 1592 (unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of 

trafficking), and 1594 (general provisions) of title 18, United States Code. This calculation 

differs from the case statistics presented in the preceding charts, because the AOUSC database 

tracks the statutes involved in a court case rather than the underlying facts of each case. As a 

result, the AOUSC database search was unable to determine sentences in trafficking prosecutions 

in which defendants pleaded guilty to non-trafficking offenses such as immigration violations or 

visa fraud. In addition, the AOUSC database chronicles only the top five offenses charged, and 

not the full scope of charges brought. 

Of the 37 defendants convicted where one of the statutes listed in the TVPA was charged, 

as required to be reported by the Attorney General, 35 received a prison-only term and two 

received a probation-only sentence. The average prison term imposed for the 35 defendants was 

219 months and prison terms ranged from 9 – 612 months. Six received a prison sentence from 

1– 5 years, eight received terms from 5 – 10 years, and 21 received a prison term of more than 10 

years. One defendant received a probation-only term of 48 months and another defendant 

received a probation-only term of 60 months. 

V. International Grants to Combat Trafficking 

In FY 06, the U.S. Government obligated approximately $74 million to fund 154 projects 

in about 70 countries to support foreign government and NGO efforts to combat human 

trafficking. Of that, DOS and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) managed 

approximately $45.5 million for overseas programs to support public awareness and education 

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campaigns; training for government officials, criminal justice professionals, and medical 

personnel; development of anti-trafficking laws; and a vast array of victim services, including 

medical and legal assistance, shelter, and reintegration assistance. A full list of anti-trafficking 

in persons programs supported by U.S. Government funds obligated in FY 06 is attached as 

Appendix C to this Report. 

Examples of DOS and USAID programs include the following: 

• In India, the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) at DOS provided 

funding to Free the Slaves to expand efforts in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to rescue, 

rehabilitate, and reintegrate child victims of forced labor help and build community 

awareness of traffickers’ methods so that the communities can more effectively protect their 

children. 

• In Sierra Leone and Liberia, G/TIP provided funding to the FAITH Consortium to strengthen 

the capacity of the national justice system and the cooperation with victim assistance service 

providers. 

• In Zambia, a small public G/TIP-funded awareness project developed and broadcast six antiTIP radio programs that aired for six weeks. The large number of listener text responses and 

call-ins demonstrated the need for further information about child trafficking. 

• In Cambodia, G/TIP is supporting World Vision’s efforts to establish a short-term 

assessment center for child victims of trafficking, as well as long term treatment programs 

for victims that are unable to return home. 

• In Kuwait, the American Embassy received G/TIP funding to launch a massive public 

awareness campaign to warn and protect foreign workers from forced labor situations. The 

embassy printed 500,000 copies of a brochure that outlines the local law, and how laborers 

can contact their embassy for help. The Philippines and Pakistani embassies also took large 

quantities of the brochure for distribution to their nationals. 

• G/TIP provided funding to train teams of law enforcement officers, border officials, 

prosecutors, and judges from the Caribbean and Central America to work together on 

investigations of human trafficking. DOS also sponsored rule of law study tours to the U.S. 

to foster greater understanding of our laws, policies, and procedures. 

• In Cambodia and Ecuador, USAID is supporting pilot programs “to establish residential 

treatment facilities in foreign countries for victims of trafficking” in accordance with the 

provisions of the TVPRA 2005. The pilot programs will (1) bring up to standard existing 

shelters that are not currently operating by best practices, and (2) provide a model for other 

groups to improve existing shelters and for the establishment of new shelters where needed. 

Implementation of the programs will begin in FY 07. 

• PRM provided funding support to IOM for the Global Assistance Fund. This program 

assisted several hundred stranded trafficking victims return home from various parts of the 

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world. Assistance packages include pre-travel assistance, transportation for victims who 

want to return to their country, and some reintegration support. IOM field offices throughout 

the world are implementing this project with oversight and overall project management by 

the Counter-Trafficking Unit at IOM headquarters. 

DOL provided $28,048,000 in FY 06 to fund nine projects in 14 countries that will 

address trafficking in persons (1) as a central focus of the project, (2) as one component of the 

project, or (3) as an issue to be raised within the overall context of the project. The projects are: 

• Support for the Preparation of the Mali Time-Bound Program (trafficking issue raised in the 

overall context of the project)—$3,500,000 (International Labour Organization-International 

Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC)). 

• Preparatory Project for the Time-Bound Program of Support for the Elimination of the Worst 

Forms of Child Labor in Zambia (trafficking issue raised in the overall context of the 

project)—$3,920,000 (ILO-IPEC). 

• PROTECT CEE: Combating Trafficking and Other Worst Forms of Child Labor in Central 

and Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine), Phase II 

(commercial sexual exploitation of children component)—$3,500,000 (ILO-IPEC). 

• Support for National Action to Combat Child Labor in its Worst Forms in Thailand 

(trafficking issue raised in the overall context of the project)—$3,500,000 (ILO-IPEC). 

• Sustainable Elimination of Child Bonded Labor in Nepal, Phase II (trafficking issue raised in 

the overall context of the project)—$2,000,000 (ILO-IPEC). 

• Preparandonos Para la Vida (Preparing Ourselves for Life): Project to Combat the Worst 

Forms of Child Labor Through Education in Peru (commercial sexual exploitation of 

children component)—$5,000,000 (International Youth Foundation). 

• Supporting the Time-Bound Program for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor 

in the Dominican Republic, Phase II (commercial sexual exploitation of children 

component)—$2,700,000 (ILO-IPEC). 

• Supporting the Time-Bound Program for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor 

in El Salvador, Phase II (commercial sexual exploitation of children component)— 

$3,380,000 (ILO-IPEC). 

• Preventing and Eliminating Child Labour in Identified Hazardous Sectors in India—Migrant 

Child Labor Addendum (trafficking component)—$548,000 (ILO-IPEC). 

Highlights of two FY 06 projects: 

In El Salvador, DOL provided support to a second phase of the Time-Bound Program for 

the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor. One of the target beneficiary groups of the 

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project is children involved in or at risk of becoming involved in trafficking and commercial 

sexual exploitation. To strengthen the country’s capacity to combat child commercial sexual 

exploitation and the trafficking of children for commercial sexual exploitation, the project has 

supported the development of a training program for the General Directorate of Migration 

(GDM) officers, aimed at improving knowledge of the legislation and protocols for the 

prevention of and combat against sexual exploitation and trafficking of children. Workshops and 

trainings have been conducted with GDM officers, legislators, and other key actors. Moreover, 

educational materials geared to at-risk children and adolescents have been developed and 

publicized. The project also continues to promote legislative changes and improvements in the 

provision of care for victims, and monitors child sexual exploitation cases brought before the 

courts throughout the process. 

DOL funded a second phase to the Combating Trafficking and Other Worst Forms of 

Child Labor in Central and Eastern Europe project. The project contributes to a reduction in the 

incidence of trafficking in children and other worst forms of child labor in key sectors (sexual 

exploitation; street work such as begging, vending, and scavenging; agriculture; and other illicit 

activities) by improving national policies, legislation, and judicial procedures; strengthening 

local action committees to prevent trafficking in children; providing direct services to victims 

and children at risk of exploitation; and building a sub-regional information exchange network. 

The TVPRA 2005 directs DOL to monitor and combat forced labor and child labor in 

foreign countries. While DOL has been conducting research and administering technical 

assistance funding in the area of international child labor since 1995, the law’s mandates in the 

area of forced labor and trafficking require new activities. In FY 06, DOL began implementing 

these mandates by funding a $300,000 contract for research on forced labor and child labor in the 

production of goods in 61 countries. DOL also funded a $3,750,000 grant to enhance national 

capacity in child labor data collection, analysis and dissemination, of which a portion will fund a 

study on forced and bonded child labor in four selected countries. DOL staff are also continuing 

ongoing research activities on child labor and are undertaking new research on forced labor and 

trafficking worldwide. 

VI. Training and Outreach 

A. Domestic Law Enforcement Training 

1. Department of Justice 

a. Office of Justice Programs (OJP) 

OJP organized the Department of Justice’s second National Conference on Human 

Trafficking in New Orleans, LA, from October 3 – 5, 2006. Participants included officials from 

throughout the U.S. Government and more than 600 individuals from law enforcement, NGOs, 

and academia. The conference focused on the complex issues surrounding human trafficking, 

such as collaboration strategies to help reduce and prevent human trafficking; research and 

statistics; efforts to improve identification of victims and neutralize trafficking enterprises; and 

ways to enhance the response to trafficking victims’ needs. The Attorney General addressed the 

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conference and announced additional funding through OJP totaling nearly $8 million for law 

enforcement agencies and service organizations to identify and assist victims of human 

trafficking and to apprehend and prosecute those engaged in trafficking offenses. The funds 

were used to create the ten new trafficking task forces discussed above. 

b. Civil Rights Division 

To enhance the ability of the DOJ task forces and other law enforcement entities to 

combat human trafficking the Civil Rights Division launched the first of several planned 

nationwide televised broadcasts on the Justice Television Network (JTN), an interactive 

distance-learning tool, in September 2006. The live broadcasts, which are available for 

subsequent viewing, provide a forum to allow task forces to share best practices and learn from 

one another. The initial session included a legal overview of human trafficking statutes; a review 

of evolving strategies for detecting and responding to trafficking crimes; a panel discussion 

involving Houston’s highly productive anti-trafficking task force; and guidance from the Office 

of Justice Programs on the logistics of securing task force funding and operating a task force. 

The program also afforded an opportunity for the hundreds of participants to pose questions to 

the training panel during or before the program. A participating NGO subsequently developed a 

list-serve to further enable task force members to communicate with one another. Following the 

training, two human trafficking cases were initiated in districts that had never filed a human 

trafficking case. 

The Civil Rights Division, with funding from HHS, also created an 11-minute training 

film entitled “Give Us Freedom: Liberty and Justice for Victims of Modern-Day Slavery.” This 

film was premiered at the National Conference in New Orleans and has since been shown to 

numerous federal and local law enforcement officers and NGO representatives. 

Civil Rights Division attorneys and victim-witness staff conducted well over 50 training 

sessions for federal and local law enforcement agencies, DOJ-funded task forces, nongovernmental and health care organizations, business leaders, and legal practitioners in the 

following cities and states: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Houston, Texas; Montgomery County, 

Maryland; Salt Lake City, Utah; Ft. Myers, Florida; New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois; San 

Francisco; California; South Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; North Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; Austin, 

Texas; San Jose, California; Oakland, California; Sacramento, California; Montana; Idaho; 

Eastern Washington; Clearwater, Florida; Anchorage, Alaska; and Delaware. 

In addition to these regional training programs, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys’ 

Office of Legal Education and the Civil Rights Division developed and presented two 

comprehensive human trafficking training sessions for federal agents and prosecutors at DOJ’s 

National Advocacy Center. The Civil Rights Division also actively participates in human 

trafficking training at United States Attorneys’ Offices (USAOs) throughout the nation and 

continues to participate regularly in FBI, ICE, and Department of State’s Diplomatic Security 

Service training. In FY 06, the Civil Rights Division provided specialized training for officials 

who oversee areas that may encompass human trafficking, including organized crime and 

racketeering prosecutors; inspectors general at the Departments of Defense, Labor, and State; 

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and financial investigators with forfeiture enforcement. The Division also provided a briefing to 

the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) at DOS on recent 

investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking in the United States and the interaction with 

other countries in those cases. 

DOJ continued to support the promotion of the Model State Anti-Trafficking Statute to 

expand anti-trafficking authority to the states and to harness almost one million state and local 

law enforcement officers who might come into contact with trafficking victims. At the end of 

FY 06, more than one-half of the states (27) had passed anti-trafficking legislation and another 

15 states had legislation pending. Several states have also passed laws to establish research 

commissions and task forces, as well as to mandate law enforcement training and to provide 

victim services. 

• Passed (27): Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, 

Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, 

Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, 

Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Washington. 

• Pending (15): Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico, New 

York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West 

Virginia. 

c. Criminal Division, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section 

In July 2006, CEOS conducted its annual Advanced Child Exploitation course for federal 

prosecutors and agents at the National Advocacy Center. In addition to covering topics relevant 

to the investigation and prosecution of child exploitation crimes involving the Internet, the 

course included training on the Innocence Lost National Initiative. Further, in conjunction with 

the Innocence Lost National Initiative, CEOS partnered with both the FBI and NCMEC to 

develop an intensive week-long training seminar, held at and sponsored by NCMEC, solely 

dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of cases involving children exploited in 

prostitution. The ongoing program brings state and federal law enforcement agencies, 

prosecutors, and social service providers to NCMEC, where the group is trained together. 

Although the pilot training program occurred during 2003, there have been 11 more training 

programs—four in 2004, three in 2005, and four in 2006, with approximately 600 key personnel 

trained by the end of 2006. 

CEOS also provides numerous publications to prosecutors across the country, including a 

quarterly newsletter that it prepares and distributes to each USAO that provides practical tips as 

well as the most current legal issues and cases. CEOS also periodically prepares an issue of the 

United States Attorneys’ Bulletin focusing on child sexual exploitation. In FY 06, three of the 

eight articles in the November 2006 United States Attorneys’ Bulletin, all drafted by CEOS 

attorneys, directly focused on child sex trafficking: “Establishing Federal Jurisdiction in Child 

Prostitution and Sex Tourism Cases,” “Obtaining Foreign Evidence in Child Sex Tourism 

Cases,” and “Providing Victim-Centered Services to Prostituted Youth.” Additionally, one 

quarterly newsletter article included a summary of U.S. v. Clark, 435 F.3d 1100 (9th Cir. 2006) . 

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In that case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of 18 

U.S.C. § 2423(c), which makes it a crime for a U.S. citizen to travel in foreign commerce and 

engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. The court held that the statute does not exceed 

Congress’s power to regulate foreign commerce or violate the due process clause. 

d. Bureau of Justice Assistance 

BJA assisted OJP with the organization of the National Human Trafficking Conference 

in New Orleans. Representatives of the 42 human trafficking task forces were invited to the 

Conference and a special training session for these task forces was conducted by BJA and the 

Civil Rights Division at the end of the Conference. 

Since 2005, BJA has collaborated with the Office of Community Oriented Policing 

Services (COPS) to fund the training of 113 law enforcement trainers by COPS through its 

Regional Community Policing Institutes (RCPI). By the end of Calendar Year 2006 (the BJA 

reporting period), those RCPI trainers had trained 3,206 law enforcement and other 

governmental and non-governmental organizations in the BJA “Human Trafficking in the 

U.S.—Promoting Awareness” curriculum. 

In September 2006, BJA teamed with the Civil Rights Division to present the Justice 

Television Network training broadcasts discussed above. 

Finally, in 2006, BJA awarded a grant to the Institute for Intergovernmental Research 

(IIR) to develop and enhance training resources to aid law enforcement, prosecution personnel, 

and service providers in addressing human trafficking. This enhancement will include a review 

of the curriculum developed in 2004 and early 2005, adding recent legislative changes as well as 

transliterate the curriculum to International Spanish. IIR will also coordinate the development 

of an additional Civil Law component to the Human Trafficking in the U.S. curriculum that will 

address nuances that impact human trafficking investigations and prosecutions in the judicial 

system of Latin America. Finally, IIR will identify and develop additional training aids that will 

address areas of special interest—from investigation, to prosecution, to victim services. 

2. Department of Homeland Security 

Three DHS components conducted anti-TIP training either for their own officers or for 

state and local law enforcement officers in FY 06. 

a. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 

ICE requires its agents to complete a human trafficking course developed as part of ICE’s 

Virtual University. The course was created to target various job roles within ICE that may be 

exposed to human trafficking. In addition to background information about the TVPA, the 

course has separate sections for Investigators, Victim-Witness Coordinators, Deportation 

Officers, and Immigration Enforcement Agents. It also allows the ICE Training Division to 

document individuals who have successfully completed each section of the course. In FY 06, 

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5,555 individuals from the Office of Investigations, Detention and Removal Operations, and the 

Federal Protective Service successfully completed the course. 

In FY 06, ICE conducted frequent trafficking in persons training for law enforcement 

officials, consular officials, prosecutors, and social service providers, and participated in and 

gave presentations at a number of trafficking in persons conferences and workshops. ICE 

domestic field offices conducted local outreach efforts to over 330 domestic law enforcement 

offices. 

b. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

In FY 06, CBP provided training to all incoming CBP law enforcement personnel 

regarding how to identify and respond to cases of human trafficking. The training teaches CBP 

law enforcement personnel how to identify victims and perpetrators of human trafficking, 

providing information about the T non-immigrant status classification available to allow victims 

of human trafficking who are assisting with a law enforcement investigation or prosecution to 

remain in the United States in lawful immigration status. In addition, CBP established the Office 

of Alien Smuggling Interdiction (ASI), to address the related global problems of migrant 

smuggling and human trafficking, which are increasingly significant both in terms of the human 

tragedy they represent and their impact on national security, primarily with respect to crime, 

health and welfare, and border control. This office will create a structure to share intelligence on 

migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons and increase the agency’s effectiveness in 

identifying, analyzing, assessing, and responding to alien smuggling and human trafficking 

threats. ASI will also closely collaborate with its intelligence and law enforcement partners with 

a permanent representative at the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center. 

c. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 

USCIS has offered ongoing and advanced training to its personnel on identifying 

trafficking victims and on the statutory requirements to provide such victims with information 

regarding available services and assistance. T status adjudicators, Asylum Officers, and 

Immigration Information Officers all received in-person instruction on victim identification 

through a series of training courses involving USCIS personnel, as well as federal law 

enforcement officials. 

In FY 06, USCIS participated in several training sessions hosted by other federal 

agencies to provide training to service providers and law enforcement officers on immigration 

relief for crime victims, including the eligibility requirements for T nonimmigrant status, training 

regarding human trafficking, and continued presence. Examples of training sessions in which 

USCIS participated include presentations at the DHS Seminar for Victim-Witness Coordinators, 

the American Immigration Lawyers Annual Conference on Immigration Law, and the National 

Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women Capacity Building Summits. 

Furthermore, USCIS provided advanced training for its T status adjudicators. The 

training covered substantive training on human trafficking, T status eligibility requirements, and 

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waivers of inadmissibility, as well as training on the psychological dynamics of trafficking, 

trafficking prosecutions, and cultural awareness. 

3. Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center 

In FY 06, the Center conducted frequent training to law enforcement officials, consular 

officials, prosecutors, and social service providers, and presented at a number of trafficking in 

persons conferences and workshops. These included a plenary presentation at the Department of 

Justice National Human Trafficking Conference. The Center also participated in human 

trafficking training of federal prosecutors and ICE attorneys at the Department of Justice 

National Advocacy Center. 

B. International Law Enforcement Training 

1. Department of Justice 

a. Civil Rights Division 

The Civil Rights Division continued to provide training and technical assistance to 

foreign officials both here and abroad and to collaborate with foreign governments to locate and 

prosecute human traffickers. Building relationships with foreign officials is critical to DOJ’s 

anti-trafficking efforts and experienced trafficking personnel regularly participate in training and 

strategy sessions involving key officials from foreign governments. In FY 06, Civil Rights 

Division personnel met with officials from Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, India, 

Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, 

Turkmenistan, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, and the Organization of American States. 

In addition to these efforts, Civil Rights Division personnel traveled abroad to meet with 

key anti-trafficking officials from foreign governments, including lawmakers, judges, mid-level 

managers responsible for policy implementation, prosecuting attorneys, and investigators, as 

well as NGOs. These efforts involved both training sessions and the exchange of information on 

effective law enforcement anti-trafficking tactics. In 2006, Civil Rights Division personnel 

participated in training missions to Georgia, Norway, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. 

The Civil Rights Division also continues to detail one of its senior prosecutors to Colombia to 

assist that country with its efforts to combat human trafficking. Of note, as a result of training 

efforts conducted by a DOJ prosecutor based in Russia and aided by an NGO there that works 

closely with U.S. officials, a trafficking victim was rescued in Florida and the perpetrator 

charged. 

As part of the President’s $50 Million Trafficking in Persons Initiative (discussed in 

Section VII below), DOJ continued to provide assistance to Mexico, which signed a Letter of 

Agreement with the United States to facilitate the exchange of intelligence and produce 

collaborative efforts to combat trafficking among Central America, Mexico, and the United 

States. Civil Rights Division prosecutors made numerous trips throughout the country to meet 

with both government and non-government agencies. 

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b. Criminal Division, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section 

CEOS is committed to improving the international response to sex trafficking by 

providing training to foreign law enforcement. During FY 06, CEOS attorneys presented 

training overseas in Nigeria, Indonesia, Latvia, Armenia, and Russia. Moreover, a CEOS 

attorney focused full-time on trafficking issues in Indonesia while assigned there as the 

Intermittent Legal Advisor for Human Trafficking from July to October 2006. Many of these 

training efforts are further discussed in Section VI.B.1.c. 

In addition to providing training overseas, CEOS also provided training in Washington, 

D.C., to foreign officials concerning child sex trafficking. In FY 06, CEOS conducted at least 24 

training sessions for officials or NGO representatives from Bulgaria; Ecuador; Ukraine; Brazil; 

Britain; a delegation including representatives from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, 

Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; Russia; Thailand; Macedonia; Bhutan; China; Israel; Switzerland; 

Poland; Saudi Arabia; delegates from 15 countries; Pakistan; Malaysia; and Indonesia. 

c. OPDAT/ICITAP 

i. Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training 

DOJ’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) 

draws on the DOJ’s resources and expertise to strengthen foreign criminal justice sector 

institutions and enhance the administration of justice abroad. With funding provided by DOS 

and USAID, OPDAT supports the law enforcement objectives and priorities of the United States 

by preparing foreign counterparts to cooperate more fully and effectively with the United States 

in combating terrorism and transnational crime, such as human trafficking, through encouraging 

legislative and justice sector reform in countries with inadequate laws; improving the skills of 

foreign prosecutors and judges; and promoting the rule of law and regard for human rights. 

OPDAT provides substantial technical assistance throughout the world based the “Three 

Ps of TIP:” prevention, protection and prosecution. OPDAT assistance includes training and 

developmental projects with overseas law enforcement officials geared to strengthening our 

international partners’ capabilities to prevent transnational trafficking; protecting victim 

witnesses and thereby encouraging their participation in investigations and prosecutions; and 

effectively investigating and prosecuting trafficking cases. OPDAT also works with host 

countries on developing evidence collection techniques, which can generate evidence usable in 

transnational prosecutions, including those brought by DOJ in the United States. OPDAT also 

does legislative reform and drafting in the area of TIP to ensure that TIP law is victim assistance 

centered and compliant with the Palermo Protocol of UN Organized Crime Convention. OPDAT 

regularly calls upon the expertise of DOJ attorneys from the Civil Rights Division, CEOS, and 

the USAOs in both the design and execution of anti-trafficking in persons technical assistance 

and training programs overseas. When appropriate, OPDAT collaborates on TIP programs with 

the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP). 

In FY 06, OPDAT conducted 56 anti-TIP programs involving 21 countries: Albania, 

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, El Salvador, 

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Georgia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Macedonia, Moldova, Nigeria, Romania, 

Russia, Suriname, Ukraine, and Zambia. 

Highlights of these programs include the following: 

• In Summer and Fall 2006, OPDAT’s Intermittent Legal Advisor (ILA) assisted Indonesian 

legislative drafters with strengthing their draft anti-trafficking legislation by improving 

specific provisions containing exceptions and loopholes that would permit many types of 

domestic trafficking to persist. The ILA promoted passage of the legislation (expected in 

early 2007) through a series of public hearings and interactive exhibitions in the halls of 

Parliament and conducted a series of seminars on the use of existing laws against sexual 

exploitation and protecting migrant workers to combat human trafficking until the new antitrafficking law is passed. The ILA also provided assistance to the North Sumatra Human 

Trafficking Task Force, promoting their community outreach, familiarity with asset forfeiture 

techniques (asset forfeiture provisions are in the pending law), and exploration of various 

inter-agency challenges in fighting human trafficking. 

• In Spring 2006, the OPDAT Resident Legal Advisor to Macedonia conducted a workshop on 

the forensics of crimes against the physical and sexual integrity of persons, especially as it 

applies to trafficking in persons and children, in Lake Ohrid, Macedonia. Approximately 40 

participants, including representatives from the Ministry of Interior, judges, prosecutors, 

attorneys at law, and medical forensics experts gathered to learn from doctors from the 

Institute for Forensics Medicine, a Macedonian organization, and from each other. 

• In Spring 2006, OPDAT conducted a program in Paramaribo, Suriname, to assist nine federal 

Surinamese judges in developing a “bench book” of best practices for adjudicating 

trafficking in persons cases. This program complements an earlier OPDAT TIP program, 

conducted in FY 05, which involved working with Surinamese prosecutors and others to 

develop an anti-trafficking operations manual for prosecutors and investigators and a tip 

sheet for border officials. It was following this FY 05 program that Suriname, for the first 

time in eight years, successfully prosecuted a human trafficking case involving a high-level 

public official. Two more human trafficking arrests followed shortly, one in December 2005 

and the other in February 2006. 

• In Winter 2006, the OPDAT Resident Legal Advisors to Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova 

presented a trilateral TIP seminar in the Suceava region of Romania near the border with 

Ukraine. The seminar was presented to approximately 80 officials from all three countries 

and focused on cross-border cooperation in the investigation and prosecution of TIP cases. 

Also discussed was the identification and referral of TIP victims. 

• In Winter 2006, OPDAT conducted a TIP program for 25 federal judges from the province of 

San Salvador and one representative from the Professional School of Specialized Judicial 

Training in San Salvador, El Salvador. The purpose was to have the Salvadoran judges 

develop a judicial “bench book,” which would standardize the classification of trafficking 

crimes and penalties and could be used as a guide for federal judges in TIP cases. By the 

conclusion of the program, the judges had put together a draft bench book of 49 pages, 

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including a comprehensive table of trafficking crimes in El Salvador and their corresponding 

penalties. With the continued guidance of the U.S. Embassy and the National Council of the 

Judiciary, the judges plan to continue working to finalize this document and publish it as a 

resource for other judges in El Salvador. 

ii. International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program 

ICITAP is involved in outreach to, and training of, foreign law enforcement officials on 

methods to combat TIP. ICITAP activities focus on the development of police forces and the 

improvement of capabilities of existing police forces in emerging democracies. During FY 06, 

ICITAP operated TIP programs throughout the world. 

• In Albania, ICITAP’s Organized Crime and Anti-trafficking Project focused on trafficking 

investigations, prevention by law enforcement of illegal trafficking, and logistical support 

and electronic equipment. ICITAP–Albania’s Anti-trafficking/Integrated Border 

Management Program focused on port personnel, staffing, and equipment; anti-trafficking 

training and center development; and canine units and training. 

• The Bosnia program supported the Anti-trafficking Strike Force by providing equipment, 

technical assistance, and training support. 

• In Macedonia, ICITAP provided daily development counsel to the Ministry of Interior’s 

Organized Crime Directorate on unit organization and management, investigative skills, 

techniques and case management, data collection, and regional cooperation. 

• ICITAP–Montenegro assisted the host country to institutionalize contemporary law 

enforcement management, practices, and standards to effectively address incidents of 

organized crime and human trafficking. This program also provided the necessary training 

and technical assistance to law enforcement and prosecutorial management and practitioners 

assigned to investigate and prosecute cases of organized crime and human trafficking. 

• In Azerbaijan, ICITAP assisted the Azeri Ministry of Internal Affairs in developing a 

standardized vetting procedure, to include selection, testing, and background investigations, 

including full financial disclosure for its specialized TIP Unit. 

• In Kazakhstan, ICITAP provided training at a TIP conference in July 2006, bringing police, 

prosecutors, and judges from the northern and western parts of the country. 

• In 2006, the ICITAP Asia and Pacific program received $745,933 to continue to facilitate the 

TIP program initiated in Indonesia in 2004. The total expenditures for the training delivered 

amounted to $25,844.00, not including the resident technical advisors fee. The ICITAP TIP 

training program design is “Point of Origin Strategy” training police, NGOs, and 

international governmental organizations (IGOs) in high percentage trafficking origin areas 

and summarily developing task force models for local and regional responses. The training 

consists of components on trafficker patterns and operations, victim identification, rescue, 

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non-victimization, integration, and interviewing techniques. In FY 06, ICITAP Indonesia 

trained 200 police, 48 NGOs, and 27 IGOs. 

• ICITAP received $200,000 in Economic Support Fund (ESF) to provide continued technical 

assistance, training, and limited equipment for a joint Indonesia and Malaysia TIP assistance 

program. With this funding, ICITAP will assist the Government of Indonesia and the 

Government of Malaysia to initiate a sustainable, integrated, multidisciplinary antitrafficking strategy for identification, investigation, information sharing, and prosecution of 

transnational trafficking organizations and the protection and safety of trafficking victims. 

• ICITAP received $150,000 in support of a TIP program in Bangladesh. The funding was 

provided to improve the ability of the Bangladesh Police Human Trafficking Monitoring Cell 

to investigate human trafficking crimes by developing the human trafficking enforcement 

and investigative capacity of law enforcement personnel responsible for border security and 

port of entry operations in Bangladesh. In addition, ICITAP received $719,023 for a 

program in Tanzania. In this program ICITAP will focus on providing technical assistance 

and training to rank-and-file police members, police investigators, police prosecutors, 

forensic personnel, victim service providers, and judges in Dar es Salaam, Iringe, and 

Mwanza over a two-year period. 

iii. Joint ICITAP/OPDAT Programs 

• In Winter 2006, OPDAT and ICITAP conducted a joint program in Lake Ohrid, Macedonia, 

on identification of and assistance to victims of human trafficking for 40 border police from 

Bulgaria, Albania, and Macedonia. Topics included an overview of trends, patterns, and 

migration routes of trafficking; interviewing techniques; and improving cooperation between 

law enforcement and NGOs. The main purpose of the program was to encourage 

cooperation among the border patrol services of the three countries. 

• In Winter 2006, OPDAT and ICITAP participated on an interagency team assessing Kenya 

and Benin’s abilities to address sexual violence and abuse against women. These countries, 

as well as South Africa and Zambia which were assessed in November and December 2005, 

will receive $55 million to improve women’s social roles and combat sexual abuse and 

violence under President Bush’s Women’s Justice Power Initiative. 

• In FY 06, OPDAT and ICITAP received almost $1.5 million in funding to work together in 

Tanzania to provide technical assistance and training to rank-and-file police members, police 

investigators, police prosecutors, forensic personnel, victim service providers, and judges in 

Dar es Salaam, Iringe, and Mwanza over a two-year period. 

2. Department of Homeland Security 

a. International Law Enforcement Training Efforts 

One of ICE’s most important international training activities is its participation in the 

International Law Enforcement Academies (ILEA) in Bangkok, Budapest, and Latin America. 

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ICE developed the human trafficking training modules that are part of the permanent curricula at 

those academies and provided nine human trafficking training sessions at the ILEAs for 429 law 

enforcement personnel from 43 countries. Human trafficking training modules included: (1) 

investigation methodologies in human trafficking cases; (2) human trafficking indicators; (3) 

global networks; (4) victim interviews; (5) victim services; and (6) task force methodology. 

Representatives from the following countries attended: Albania, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Belize, 

Bolivia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Brunei, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican 

Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Laos, Macedonia, 

Macau, Malaysia, Moldova, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, People’s Republic of 

China, Peru, Philippines, Ukraine, Uruguay, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, 

Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, and Vietnam. 

The ICE Cyber Crimes Center also participated in ILEA training by conducting Child 

Sex Tourism Investigations training classes at the ILEA in Bangkok, Thailand and Budapest, 

Hungary. ICE Cyber Crimes Center staff provided information to foreign law enforcement 

officers/agents about the provisions of the PROTECT Act of 2003 relating to U.S. citizens 

traveling abroad to sexually exploit children. 

Additionally, ICE participated in a united global campaign against child predators as a 

board member and the primary U.S. law enforcement representative to the Virtual Global 

Taskforce (VGT), an integrated network of law enforcement agencies from different nations 

created to combat online child abuse. Law enforcement officials, NGOs, and private industry 

representatives from around the world share strategies to reduce online child abuse. Created in 

2003, the VGT is a law enforcement network comprised of the Australian High-Tech Crime 

Centre, the United Kingdom Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center, Canada’s Royal 

Canadian Mounted Police, ICE, and INTERPOL, which aims to implement a 24/7 online 

presence by law enforcement to combat child exploitation. 

b. International Outreach 

In FY 05 and FY 06, ICE Attaché offices developed relationships with at least 43 NGOs 

and inter-governmental agencies working on trafficking issues in more than 20 countries. 

ICE Attaché offices also conducted training on trafficking to at least 150 foreign 

government agencies and law enforcement officials in at least 50 countries. These efforts helped 

ICE develop leads in trafficking investigations and raised awareness of TIP overseas. 

c. International Visitors Program 

ICE’s International Visitors Program, in coordination with DOS’s International Visitors 

Program, helped arrange visits by foreign government officials to the United States. In FY 06, 

ICE conducted 50 briefings for 227 foreign government officials and NGO representatives from 

58 countries on human trafficking and ICE’s victim witness program. ICE briefed international 

visitors from the following countries: Albania, Argentina, Austria, Belize, Brazil, Burma, China, 

Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, 

Guatemala, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, 

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Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, 

Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, 

Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Togo, Turkey, Ukraine, United 

Kingdom, Uruguay, Vietnam and Yemen. 

d. Coordination with the Government of Mexico 

ICE assists the Government of Mexico in its efforts to combat trafficking in persons. 

Funding for ICE’s two-year program in Mexico comes from the President’s $50 Million 

Trafficking in Persons Initiative. The program started in November 2005 with the placement of 

an ICE Program Coordinator in Mexico City, Mexico. Since the program began, ICE has 

coordinated with the Government of Mexico in its efforts to set up five vetted law enforcement 

units for trafficking in persons and has provided investigative assistance to those units. Two of 

the units have actively investigated trafficking cases. 

ICE deployed a Digital Forensics Agent to Mexico City to conduct an assessment of 

Mexico’s Cyber Crimes unit. The Government of Mexico plans to use the results of the 

assessment to enhance its efforts to investigate child sex tourism cases. 

ICE has provided training on TIP investigations to 360 PFP officers, trained 90 Mexican 

immigration officers, and participated in a TIP conference in Chiapas that included 200 

representatives from Mexican federal, state, and local governments. 

3. Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center 

In its efforts to encourage cross-border cooperation among nations dealing with the crime 

of human trafficking, the Center educates foreign law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and 

intelligence agencies on the best practices of trafficking investigation and prosecution. In FY 06, 

the Center participated in numerous international conferences and outreach programs, and 

regularly conducted training of foreign officials, including a presentation at the Bilateral Law 

Enforcement Task Force on Human Trafficking, September 9-14, 2006, in St. Petersburg, 

Russia. 

In addition, the Center conducted TIP training for the Australian Federal Police, 

INTERPOL, and met with representatives of Saudi Arabian ministries to set up training sessions 

on best practices for stopping human trafficking. As part of its day to day operations, the Center 

has also worked with foreign governments on improving their information sharing and means to 

foster collective investigations though the Canadian Border Services Agency, INTERPOL, 

EUROPOL, and FRONTEX. 

4. Department of State 

With support from PRM, the IOM developed a set of seven Counter-Trafficking Training 

Modules in response to the need for practical, “how to” training materials for NGOs, government 

officials (including law enforcement), and other stakeholders engaged in counter-trafficking 

activities around the world. Designed for quick delivery at modest cost, these modules will 

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enhance understanding of some of the key elements necessary in building a comprehensive 

counter-trafficking strategy, the Modules series provides an introduction to essential components 

of a comprehensive counter-trafficking response, and is currently available in English, Spanish, 

and partially in French. The Modules trainings were developed through a participatory, fieldbased approach involving IOM missions around the world. Topics include: Information 

Campaigns; Return and Reintegration Assistance; Capacity-Building; Cooperation and 

Networking; Victim Identification and Interviewing Techniques; Direct Assistance; and 

Children’s Protection. These training modules were piloted in the Netherlands Antilles, Jamaica, 

South Africa, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Suriname. 

C. Outreach to Nongovernmental Organizations 

1. Department of Homeland Security 

ICE staff collaborates with NGOs that provide victims with services, such as helping to 

identify trafficking cases and victims. Outreach activities include presentations to corporate 

associations, academic groups, and local agencies. Outreach addresses multi-jurisdictional 

issues, collaborative activities, and problems of distinguishing between trafficking in persons 

and migrant smuggling. 

ICE encourages ICE field offices to work with state and local law enforcement agencies 

and NGOs. ICE staff informs state and local law enforcement agencies and NGOs of ICE’s role 

and expertise in human trafficking investigations discusses the significance of “continued 

presence,” which is a short-term immigration protection that allows certified victims of 

trafficking to remain in the United States for up to one year to enable them to apply for T 

nonimmigrant status. These relationships will help to foster the exchange of information and 

collaboration in human trafficking investigations and in providing appropriate victim services. 

ICE participated in and provided training at domestic conferences and seminars that included 

large numbers of NGO attendees. ICE domestic field offices conducted local outreach efforts 

and established liaisons with over 120 NGOs. ICE Attaché offices have established liaisons with 

over 50 international NGOs worldwide. 

2. Department of Justice 

DOJ recognizes the critical role that NGOs provide in its victim-centered approach to 

restore victims and to prosecute their exploiters. In March 2006, the Attorney General presented 

the keynote address to the Fourth Annual Freedom Network USA Conference in Chicago, 

Illinois. The organization is a consortium of more than two dozen service providers who 

specialize in assisting victims of human trafficking and who advocate on their behalf throughout 

the United States. At the conference, the Attorney General announced the publication of DOJ’s 

Report on Activities to Combat Human Trafficking (FY 01 to FY 05). Soon thereafter in 

Washington, D.C., DOJ officials, including prosecutors and victim-witness staff, met with 

leaders of numerous national crime victim organizations in a roundtable discussion on issues 

faced by victims of human trafficking. 

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In FY 06, OVC entered into a partnership with Video/Action Inc., to create a 30 minute 

training video designed to educate traditional victim service providers on the dynamics of 

trafficking and strategies for expanding their scope of work and resources to include effective, 

quality provision of services to victims of trafficking. OVC is working closely with Safe 

Horizon, a seasoned victim services grantee whose experience in providing technical assistance 

and training to other trafficking service providers has helped to shape the content of the video. 

3. Department of State and USAID 

Throughout FY 06, G/TIP organized NGO briefings with the Office Director for local 

D.C.-based NGOs. In calendar year 2006, by which the public affairs section tracks its statistics, 

G/TIP conducted five community NGO round-tables on U.S. Government efforts to combat TIP, 

a pre-briefing to solicit information for the 2006 TIP Report, a post-TIP Report briefing, a 

roundtable discussion with author and Canadian journalist Victor Malarek, and a Public 

Health/TIP forum with the first AIDS hospice in Nepal, the Peace Rehabilitation Center. 

Additionally, G/TIP continued its international coverage and widespread dissemination of 

trafficking information through popular media outlets including print news articles, wire stories, 

TV and radio segments, Internet publication, and digital video conferences—reaching an 

estimated 542 million people in 2006. 

USAID works with numerous NGOs in its anti-trafficking activities, often as partners in 

providing services to trafficking victims. Strengthening local capacity, both government and 

NGO, is an important part of USAID’s approach to anti-trafficking work. In FY 06 assistance 

for NGO capacity building and networking was a prominent feature in USAID anti-trafficking 

activities in South Africa, Albania, Kosovo, Russia, Ukraine, and Haiti. 

D. Department of Health & Human Services Public Awareness Campaign/Street Outreach 

Grants 

1. Street Outreach Grants 

In FY 06, ORR provided continued funding to 18 organizations to conduct street outreach 

services to help identify victims of trafficking among populations that they already serve, and 

awarded 18 new grants that begin work in FY 07. The grants support direct, person-to-person 

contact, information sharing, counseling, and other communication between agents of the grant 

recipient and members of a specified target population. Grantees include public, private forprofit (although HHS funds may not be paid as profit), and private nonprofit organizations, 

including faith-based organizations. Some of the vulnerable population groups to which the 

grantees provide outreach are homeless and at-risk youth, girls exploited through the commercial 

sex industry, migrant farm workers, people in prostitution, and women forced to work in beauty 

parlors and nail salons. Grantees were eligible for these grants regardless of whether they had 

previously participated in anti-trafficking efforts. 

Because these organizations are already engaged in outreach to specified vulnerable 

populations, these grantees are able to capitalize on their existing expertise working with these 

populations and the accompanying trust that has been built. Grantees are evaluated on their 

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ability to connect identified victims to services, and achieve certification by building strong 

relationships with law enforcement. In FY 06, more than 1300 suspected victims were identified 

through mobile feeding programs that target immigrant populations, single women’s shelters, 

and youth centers. Additionally, street outreach grantees provided training on identifying 

trafficking victims to local law enforcement agencies, community-based organizations, faithbased organizations and health providers. 

Street Outreach Grants Receiving Continued Funding 

Breaking Free, St. Paul, MN, $150,000 

Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), Los Angeles, CA, $75,000 

Catholic Charities Milwaukee, WI, $81,300 

Catholic Charities Portland, OR, $131,146 

Catholic Social Services for Northern Arizona, $97,444 

City of Homestead, FL, $75,000 

Colorado Legal Services, Denver, CO, $142,449 

Crisis House/BSCC, San Diego, CA, $95,000 

The Door, New York, NY, $84,817 

Farmworker Legal Services, Rochester, NY, $70,000

Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS), New York, NY, $100,000 

Georgia Legal Services, Atlanta, GA, $57,533 

Good Shepherd Services, Atlanta, GA, $75,492 

Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWa), Seattle, WA, $118,884 

Rural Opportunities, Poughkeepsie, NY, $70,565 

Salvation Army, New York, NY $147,695 

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C., $148,568

West Care Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, $150,000

New Street Outreach Grants 

Alternatives for Girls, MI, $25,000 

Breaking Free, St. Paul, MN, $110,000 

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Camden, NJ, $70,000 

Catholic Charities Community Services, Phoenix, AZ, $101,462 

Center for Social Advocacy, San Diego, CA, $27,502

Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking of California, $75,000 

Farmworker Legal Services of New York, $72,734 

Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, New York City, NY $102,799 

International Rescue Committee, AZ, $103,779 

Mosaic Family Services, Dallas, TX, $123,585 

Polaris Project, NJ, $114,000 

Positive Options, Referrals & Alternatives, IL, $115,000 

SAGE Project, San Francisco, CA, $121,979 

Salvation Army, IL, $125,000 

Southeastern Network of Youth and Family Services of Alabama, $90,000 

Southeastern Network of Youth and Family Services of Florida, $46,700 

Tapestri, GA, $75,310 

Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, $71,871

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2. Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking Public Awareness Campaign 

FY 06 encompassed the third year of the HHS public awareness campaign, Rescue & 

Restore Victims of Human Trafficking. The goal of the campaign is to help communities 

identify and serve more victims of trafficking so that every individual forced, coerced, or 

fraudulently induced into exploitative work will have the courage and support to come forward 

and receive the full protection and benefits offered by the TVPA. The third year of the campaign 

built upon the previous year’s efforts to target intermediaries—those persons or entities who are 

most likely to come into contact with victims, such as: local law enforcement officials, social 

service providers, ethnic organizations, juvenile court officials, educational organizations, and 

legal assistance organizations. It also targeted institutional partners and the general public. 

a. Public Awareness Materials 

HHS continued to distribute a variety of Rescue & Restore public awareness materials, 

including posters, brochures, fact sheets, and cards with tips on identifying victims in English, 

Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Chinese. HHS additionally distributed posters in Korean, 

Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese. The materials can be viewed on the HHS website, 

www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking, and ordered at no cost. HHS updated its Rescue & Restore 

materials in FY 06 to reflect passage of the TVPRA 2005. 

In addition, HHS distributed a 10-minute video to help train intermediaries on how to 

recognize cases of human trafficking and learn how to initiate support services for those victims. 

The video showcases trafficking experts and victims in an effort to shed light on the horrors of 

trafficking, as well as the resources available to help victims rebuild their lives. 

To further increase awareness of the campaign and to guide more individuals to the 

Rescue & Restore website, the website address www.rescueandrestore.org was incorporated into 

campaign materials, where appropriate. Given the security measures in place surrounding any 

government website, www.rescueandrestore.org serves simply as a placeholder site that directs 

visitors to the official campaign site, www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking, for more information. ORR’s 

contractual relationship with Lockheed Martin Aspen Systems has enhanced the website’s 

capability to include the addition of email services in English, Spanish, Chinese, Polish, and 

Russian, and the posting of Frequently Asked Questions on the HHS web site in English and 

Spanish. HHS received 290 electronic messages via the website in FY 06. 

b. Media Outreach 

Media outreach in FY 06 included pitching and responding to key national media 

requests, monitoring the news daily and when appropriate, following up with reporters to 

encourage additional stories, and HHS perspective. HHS wrote and placed letters to the editor 

and/or op-eds in response to key stories, and encouraged regular radio interviews of Dr. Wade 

Horn, then-Assistant Secretary for Children and Families. HHS further developed its 

partnership with the Ricky Martin Foundation to raise awareness among English- and Spanishspeaking audiences on the issue of human trafficking. FY 06 concluded with a high-profile press 

conference to open the HHS Conference on Survivors of Sex Trafficking, held September 28, 

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2006. The press conference, which featured survivors of sex trafficking, Dr. Horn, 

Congresswoman Deborah Pryce, and Ambassador John Miller, then-Ambassador-at-Large in the 

Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking In Persons and Director of the 

Office to Monitor and Combat Human Trafficking in Persons at DOS, was attended by over 100 

individuals involved in anti-trafficking efforts and highlighted the needs of victims and the 

services provided by HHS. 

c. Information and Referral Hotline 

A key component of the campaign is the 24/7 toll-free Trafficking Information and 

Referral Hotline (renamed the Human Trafficking Resource Center in FY 07): (888)373-7888. 

In FY 06, the hotline provided service referrals to potential trafficking victims, educated callers 

about Rescue & Restore campaign materials, directed non-trafficking related questions to 

relevant federal and local agencies, and took reports on possible trafficking cases to forward to 

the Civil Rights Division at DOJ. The hotline is staffed by approximately 13 bilingual crisis 

workers of Covenant House, New York, which is a sub-contractor of Lockheed Martin Aspen 

System Corporation. All calls received in foreign languages other than English and Spanish are 

referred to the AT&T Language Line. The hotline took 2,670 calls in FY 06, 20 percent of 

which were in languages other than English. 

d. Intermediaries 

In FY 06 HHS awarded four new contracts to “intermediary” organizations to foster 

connections between the Rescue & Restore national campaign and local awareness building and 

service provision. The following contracts were awarded: Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, 

$597,117; Civil Society, $348,032; Immigrants Rights Advocacy Center, $666,668; and Practical 

Strategies, $172,266. 

3. Local Coalitions 

In FY 06, HHS worked with anti-trafficking coalitions in 17 areas: Atlanta, Georgia; 

Houston, Texas; Illinois; Las Vegas, Nevada; Long Island, New York; Los Angeles, California; 

Miami, Florida; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Minnesota; Newark, New Jersey; Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania; Phoenix, Arizona; Portland, Oregon; St. Louis, Missouri; San Francisco, 

California; Seattle, Washington; and Tampa, Florida. The coalitions consist of dedicated law 

enforcement personnel, social service providers, local government officials, health care 

professionals, and leaders of faith-based and ethnic organizations. The goal of the coalitions is 

to increase the number of trafficking victims who are identified, assisted in leaving the 

circumstances of their servitude, and connected to qualified service agencies and to the HHS 

certification process so that they may receive the benefits and services for which they are 

eligible. Along with identifying and assisting victims, coalition members use the Rescue & 

Restore campaign messages to educate the general public about human trafficking. 

Examples of the work of the HHS coalitions in FY 06 include: 

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• The Atlanta, Georgia Coalition created an independent committee to help pass antitrafficking legislation in Georgia. The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act 

codified the offense of human trafficking and abetting human trafficking, and established 

minimum jail times for traffickers. The legislation was signed into law in April 2006; the 

trafficking component goes into effect July 1, 2007. 

• The Illinois Coalition held an Illinois Rescue & Restore Human Trafficking Outreach Day on 

April 22, 2006. Over 1,000 volunteers canvassed over 100 communities throughout the state 

to raise awareness of human trafficking and placed more than 15,000 Rescue & Restore 

posters in community shops, laundromats, houses of worship, and gas stations. The event 

was covered by several newspapers, including a full-page article and photo in the Chicago 

Sun-Times. 

• The Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Coalition produced a one-hour local television film 

directed toward victims of human trafficking. The film included the participation of real 

victims, obscured on camera for their protection, and prominently featured the local 

Minnesota 24-hour trafficking tip line number. 

4. Training and Technical Assistance 

HHS awarded a training and technical assistance contract to the Polaris Project at the end 

of FY 06. Polaris Project will be providing state of the art training on the latest trends in the 

human trafficking movement to the Rescue and Restore coalitions, street outreach grantees, 

intermediaries, and National Human Trafficking Resource Center staff. 

5. International Discretionary Grants 

As part of the President’s $50 Million Trafficking in Persons Initiative, HHS, in 

cooperation with the Senior Policy Operating Group (SPOG), continued to support international 

programs that research and address the public impact of human trafficking in Brazil, Mexico, and 

Tanzania. 

In Brazil, HHS funded a comprehensive public information campaign to deter child sex 

tourism. The campaign broadcasts and posts deterrence messages at U.S. departure airports, on 

flights to known sex tour destinations, and at foreign airports located at known sex tour 

destinations. The campaign also maintains a website, www.stopchildtourism.org, which has 

generated a great deal of public interest, where concerned individuals can report American sex 

tourists. 

In Mexico, HHS provided grant support to two projects. First, HHS supported a public 

awareness campaign aimed at reducing child sex tourism in popular resort areas such as 

Acapulco and Cancun. Second, HHS supported the Bilateral Safety Corridor Commission 

(BSCC) in their efforts to address the public health impact that human trafficking and child sex 

tourism has on communities along Mexico’s northern border. The one-year project to train 

public health workers, provide public education, build service networks, and offer targeted 

treatment of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and other diseases and infections impacting communities 

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with a high prevalence of human trafficking has yielded a large number of partnerships and 

collaborative agreements between clinics, immigration services, and social services groups on 

both sides of the border. 

In Tanzania, HHS supplemented an HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

(CDC)/President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) grant to the Tanzanian Ministry 

of Health to train health care workers to recognize victims of trafficking and to engage in a 

broader public awareness campaign on human trafficking. The program looks beyond simply 

preventing or treating HIV/AIDS—a challenge in itself—to the circumstances of their patients’ 

lives that put those patients at risk. 

E. Department of State Outreach to Foreign Governments 

DOS’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) issued its annual 

Trafficking in Persons Report in June 2006. The report is the U.S. Government’s principal 

diplomatic tool used to engage foreign governments on the subject. It rates countries in tiers 

according to their efforts to combat trafficking and is used by DOS to encourage reform of laws 

and practices in order to more effectively combat trafficking. It also includes detailed 

information on U.S. Government policy covering prostitution, child sex tourism, child soldiers, 

involuntary servitude, and corruption in order to demonstrate U.S. commitment and to promote 

effective change. In 2006, the report was expanded from rating 142 foreign governments to 149 

foreign governments. The report indicated that 41 countries adopted new legislation or amended 

existing legislation to combat TIP. Concrete actions taken by foreign governments have resulted 

in more prosecutions, convictions, and prison sentences for traffickers and comprehensive 

assistance for victims. 

The release of the TIP Report was covered in over 315 media outlets and in 43 different 

countries. In a number of countries, particularly those on Tier 3 and Tier 2 Watch list status, 

press coverage was more intense, including India, China, and Belize. Throughout the year prior 

to the release of the report in June 2006, report staff traveled to more than 60 countries meeting 

with government officials and NGO representatives. Additionally, G/TIP regularly briefs 

foreign officials and other international visitors in Washington, D.C. to provide insight on what 

the U.S. Government is doing to combat TIP in the U.S. and around the world. The DOS Bureau 

of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ International Visitors Program sponsors several groups to 

the U.S. specifically on combating human trafficking, and most often, their first stop is a 

information overview from members of the G/TIP staff. In calendar year 2006, G/TIP made 25 

presentations to over 256 visitors from over 50 countries, including Afghanistan, Albania, 

Austria, Azerbaijan, the Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, 

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, 

Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, 

Mozambique, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, 

South Africa, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, the United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, 

and the Vatican. The visitors ranged from local law enforcement officials to anti-TIP 

coordinators to the German Bavarian State Minister of Justice. 

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VII. President’s Interagency Trafficking Task Force & Senior Policy Operating Group 

In accordance with the TVPA, President Bush established the cabinet-level President’s 

Interagency Trafficking Task Force (PITF) by Executive Order 13257 in February 2002 to 

coordinate federal efforts to combat trafficking in persons. During FY 06, the PITF met on June 

19, 2006. Six Cabinet members were in attendance, and 12 agencies were represented. At the 

meeting, the Task Force approved a unified policy document on combating HIV/AIDS and 

Human Trafficking to demonstrate the high priority of both issues. The PITF also focused on 

victim identification, research, and ways to potentially improve assistance and outreach to 

internally trafficked, U.S. citizen TIP victims. 

 The Senior Policy Operating Group (SPOG) reports to the President’s Interagency 

Trafficking Task Force and is chaired by the director of G/TIP. Congress authorized the creation 

of the SPOG in the TVPRA 2003 to coordinate the international implementation of the TVPA 

and to address emerging interagency policy, grants, and planning issues. 

The SPOG meets quarterly and includes representatives from the Departments of State, 

Justice, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Labor, and Defense, as well as the U.S. 

Agency for International Development, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and 

the Office of Management and Budget. The National Security Council, the Office of the U.S. 

Global AIDS Coordinator, and the Department of Education also participate in SPOG meetings. 

In FY 06 the SPOG met four times: November 17, 2005; February 16, 2006; April 18, 

2006; and August 17, 2006. Through these meetings and throughout the year, SPOG agencies 

shared information about programs and new initiatives, and coordinated policy implementation. 

For example, the SPOG approved updated funding guidelines and fortified SPOG program 

review procedures. SPOG agencies coordinated the implementation of several new mandates 

authorized in the TVPRA 2005. The SPOG Chair asked DOJ to lead a U.S. TIP Statistics 

Subcommittee to gather information on trafficking in persons in the United States. Four other 

SPOG Subcommittees on Research, Public Affairs, Grant Making, and Regulations continued to 

meet or teleconference regularly throughout the year. 

During FY 06, SPOG agencies obligated the remainder of the President’s $50 Million 

Trafficking in Persons Initiative and continued to implement projects funded under the Initiative. 

In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly in September 2003, President Bush 

announced that the United States would commit $50 million to supporting organizations that 

provide services to women and children victims of human trafficking. This multi-agency effort 

provided funding through DOS, DOJ, DOL, HHS, DHS, and USAID to eight foreign countries: 

Brazil, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. The funding 

supports training local NGOs; providing the resources and training for law enforcement units 

(where possible) to identify and rescue victims; providing emergency shelters, medical 

treatment, rehabilitation and reintegration services, and vocational training for those victims; and 

training judges and prosecutors. Many projects contain media components designed to educate 

the public about the realities and serious consequences of engaging in human trafficking and 

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child sex tourism. For more information, please view information releases on the President’s 

$50 Million Initiative at the following website: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/fs/2006/. 

VIII. Conclusion 

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. 

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Appendix A: BJA / OVC Human Trafficking Task Forces (42) 

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Appendix B: Examples of Cases 

Cases investigated, prosecuted, and concluded in FY 06 include the following:** 

1. Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division 

United States v. Elizabeth and James Jackson (California) 

The defendants were charged with a forced labor conspiracy to compel a former Filipina 

school teacher to work as their domestic servant. The husband, a former Sony executive, and his 

wife fraudulently obtained a visa for the victim, who was confined to their home and subjected to 

verbal and physical abuse, humiliation, debt bondage, and other forms of punishment to compel 

her continued service. They also confiscated her passport and return airline ticket. The victim 

had previously filed a civil suit in which she was awarded $825,000. 

United States v. Grandt, et al. (New York) 

Twenty-two defendants were charged with conspiring to identify, recruit, and transport 

women from Korea to the United States to make money to support their families. Once the 

women arrived in the United States, they were placed in one of numerous brothels in order to pay 

large financial debts owed to recruiters in Korea and to other members of the defendants’ 

organization. The owner or manager of the brothel confiscated identification and travel 

documents from the women and threatened to turn the women into law enforcement and/or harm 

their families in Korea, should they leave the prostitution business before paying off their debts. 

Six defendants have pleaded guilty so far. 

United States v. Kim, et al. (New York) 

ICE agents in New York, working jointly with the FBI and NYPD, identified a criminal 

organization engaged in the smuggling and trafficking of undocumented South Korean women 

into the United States for the purpose of prostitution. In August 2006, 18 search warrants and 31 

arrest warrants were executed at brothels throughout the northeast United States. Once the 

women arrived in the United States, they were placed in one of numerous brothels in order to pay 

large financial debts owed to recruiters in Korea and to other members of the defendants’ 

organization. The owner or manager of the brothel confiscated identification and travel 

documents from the women and threatened to turn the women in to law enforcement and/or harm 

their families in Korea, should they leave the prostitution business before paying off their debts. 

Eleven defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit human smuggling, human 

trafficking, and Mann Act violations and all pled guilty. Four defendants were sentenced to 

prison terms of seven months (time served), 15 months, 27 months and 41 months, with the latter 

defendant also ordered to forfeit $200,000. A fifth defendant received probation. Sentencing is 

pending on the remaining defendants. 

** The statements in this section are merely allegations as to any defendant who is pending trial or is a fugitive. 

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United States v. Lopes and Mello (Massachusetts) 

A Brazilian woman and man were charged with conspiring to profit from a prostitution 

business, which took advantage of Brazilian women who were in the United States illegally. The 

defendants allegedly recruited women for the business, advertised them through the Internet, and 

then directed the women to various locations throughout Massachusetts and neighboring states 

for prostitution. The defendants used various threats, including the threat of deportation, in order 

to keep the women from quitting. 

United States v. Montanez-Lopez, et al. (Oregon) 

Three defendants were charged with numerous charges, including involuntary servitude, 

money laundering, and drug and firearms violations, arising from a forced labor conspiracy to 

compel the victim to manufacture marijuana. The victim, who was brought from Mexico and 

was beaten, stabbed, and sexually assaulted, was told that her family would be killed to coerce 

her from leaving and to ensure that she continue to perform labor and services for the defendants. 

Two defendants have pleaded guilty and trial is pending against the third. Federal and local law 

enforcement agencies investigated the matter. 

United States v. Paris, et al. (Connecticut) 

Ten defendants were charged in a 56-count indictment with operating a prostitution 

business in the Hartford, Connecticut, area in which they marketed young women to perform 

sexual acts with males in exchange for money. The defendants sought to conceal their 

prostitution businesses by calling them “escort services” and advertising in area newspapers and 

telephone book yellow pages. The scheme also included operation of a bail bond business 

in which the victims were required to work off their bond through prostitution and the sale of the 

women from one business to another for $1200 each. Nine defendants entered guilty pleas. 

United States v. Orozco and Santizo (Florida) 

Two men were charged with trafficking with respect to forced labor after smuggling two 

female victims, including a 14-year-old girl, from Mexico through Arizona, and then to Ft. 

Myers, Florida. Once in Florida, the women were sold and told they would not be working in 

the fruit fields as expected, but instead had to work as prostitutes to pay off a $2,700 debt. One 

defendant entered a guilty plea to alien smuggling and was sentenced to nine months in prison. 

United States v. Jones (Georgia) 

Defendant Jimmie Lee Jones was charged with sex trafficking and extortion for inducing 

three victims to travel from Atlanta to Dayton Beach, Florida, with the intent of engaging them 

in prostitution. Defendant Jones also attempted to collect extension of credit by using threats of 

violence and other threats of harm to the victims. 

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United States v. Maddox and deMaddox (Texas) 

A couple pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 33 months and 84 months in prison and 

ordered to pay $28,822 restitution for having smuggled a 12-year-old girl from Mexico to be 

their baby-sitter and then forcing her into domestic servitude. The victim, who was forced to 

sleep on the floor, was not allowed to attend school and was told that she could not return to 

Mexico. She was also physically abused by the wife. The victim was discovered when the local 

sheriff was called to the defendants’ residence in response to a reported drug overdose. 

United States v. Abdenasser and Tonya Ennassime (Washington) 

A Moroccan couple pleaded guilty after being charged with forced labor and concealing 

and harboring an alien for holding their niece as a slave. In exchange for lodging and the chance 

for a good education, the victim cared for the defendants’ young son, prepared breakfast and 

dinner, performed household cleaning chores, and worked weekends and summers without pay at 

the defendants’ espresso stand. When the defendants learned of the victim’s complaints of 

mistreatment, they assaulted her, threatened to report her illegal status in the United States, 

withdrew her from school, and forced her to work longer hours at the espresso stand, without 

pay. They were ordered to pay $65,226.65 restitution to the victim and one was sentenced to six 

months of electronic home detention, 240 hours of community service and three years of 

probation. The other was sentenced to 90 days of electronic home detention, 60 hours of 

community service, and three years of probation. 

United States v. Mondragon, et al (Texas) 

Six of eight defendants have pleaded guilty in a conspiracy where women were trafficked 

into the United States from Honduras and El Salvador and forced to work in bars in Houston, 

Texas. The defendants threatened to harm the women and their families if they tried to escape or 

stop working in the bar. They also used the immigration courts to control the victims by telling 

the women to report to immigration authorities and then confiscating legal documents denying 

them access to the court, resulting in deportation orders they could hold over them. The women 

were charged smuggling fees ranging from $6,000 to $14,000, that were increased by extending 

credit to the women and girls for housing, food, clothing, transportation, and money sent home to 

their families. The women were expected to reduce their debts by keeping company with male 

bar patrons, and encouraging them to buy beer and liquor at high prices, and to submit to sexual 

contact with the patrons. Almost 90 victims have been identified and are receiving assistance. 

United States v. Ghenet and Joseph Mesfun (New Jersey) 

The defendants, naturalized citizens from Eritrea, were charged with forcing the victim to 

work as a domestic servant in their home for over ten years after bringing her to the country from 

Eritrea. The victim, who entered the United States on a visitor’s visa that expired in February 

1993, never attended school, does not speak English, and does not read or write in her native 

language. In 2003, a relative, in whom the victim was able to confide, reported the situation to 

authorities. The defendants were charged with forcing the victim to work every day without a 

day off, cooking, cleaning, and caring for the children. The defendants held her passport and 

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paid her $130 in cash once a month, but deposited the money in an account that she was unable 

to access, and she was allegedly threatened, physically assaulted, and verbally abused repeatedly. 

United States v. Malcolm (Texas) 

Korean madam Mi Na Malcolm was sentenced to ten years in prison after pleading guilty 

for her role in the ownership and operation of three Korean brothels in Dallas, Texas. She was 

also ordered to pay a $460,000 fine. Malcolm, who laundered the proceeds from the prostitution, 

admitted that she paid the victims’ debts to human smugglers, took their passports, and told them 

they could not leave until they had paid off their debts to her. Malcolm then forced the victims 

to live and work at one of her three brothels in order to pay off their debts to her and for her own 

profit. Malcolm directed the victims to work as prostitutes for six to seven days a week and 

many were forced to be available for sex 24 hours a day. She monitored the victims’ movements 

in person, through an escort, and through a video surveillance system inside one of the brothels. 

United States v. Norris (Georgia) 

Three defendants were charged with conspiracy to hold young women to a condition of 

peonage, to obtain the forced labor and services of young women, to traffic young women for 

purposes of forced labor and peonage, and to traffic young women for commercial sex acts. 

From 2001 until August 2005, the defendants allegedly recruited and sometimes kidnapped 

young women and forced them to engage in prostitution in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Harrison 

Norris allegedly used his notoriety as a professional wrestler to recruit some of the victims with 

promises of training to compete as wrestlers. The defendants would also recruit young women 

through physical force, by paying legal fines or bail for them, and by using false pretenses. Once 

the defendants lured women into their service, they used physical violence, sexual abuse, threats 

of force, sleep and food deprivation, constant monitoring, and an elaborate debt system and 

house rules to keep the women working involuntarily as prostitutes. The conspirators would also 

confiscate the women’s mobile phones and identification documents. Consequently, the women 

believed that they would suffer serious consequences if they tried to leave the defendants. Two 

of the defendants have pleaded guilty and two additional defendants in related cases pleaded 

guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation. 

United States v. Sanchez, et al. (North Carolina) 

Three defendants were charged in a sex trafficking conspiracy for allegedly arranging for 

women and minor children to be transported to North Carolina from other states to work in their 

prostitution houses. Two defendants have pleaded guilty. 

United States v. Chang and Chang (Texas) 

Two defendants charged in a forced labor conspiracy pleaded guilty and were sentenced 

to ten years in prison and three years probation respectively and ordered to pay $37,000 in 

restitution. Chang utilized a smuggling network that recruited young women in South Korea 

with promises of good jobs in the United States. Chang paid the victims’ smuggling debts, took 

the women’s passports, and told them they could not leave until they had paid off their debts to 

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him. Chang forced the victims to live in the upper floor of his home, where he restrained their 

freedom by monitoring them inside the home with interior surveillance cameras and by posting a 

Club Wa employee at the front door of the home as a guard. Chang required the women to work 

six nights a week drinking with customers, often until they became sick or passed out. Chang 

threatened to “sell” the women to other clubs if they disobeyed. One victim escaped the Chang 

home by leaping from a second-story bathroom window and fleeing with the help of a local 

pastor, who later reported the case to local authorities. 

United States v. Medrano (New Jersey) 

Luisa Medrano and eleven other defendants were charged with luring Honduran women 

and young girls from small villages with promises of employment as waitresses and then forcing 

them to work at bars in Union City, New Jersey. After rescue, the women stated that they were 

beaten, their families had been threatened in Honduras, and they were subjected to forced 

abortions. Investigative efforts resulted in the rescue of 19 Honduran females, six of whom were 

juveniles as young as 14 years of age. In June 2005, the government of Honduras, in 

collaboration with ICE, arrested four other persons, charging them under Honduran law with 

human smuggling and trafficking. All the women and girls have been relocated and are 

receiving services. Seven of the defendants have pleaded guilty, including one defendant who 

agreed to forfeit property valued at $500,000. 

United States v. Al Jader (Massachusetts) 

A Saudi princess was sentenced to two years probation, including a six month term of 

home detention, 100 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $206,972 restitution, a 

$40,000 fine, and to forfeit one of her homes. She had pleaded guilty to unlawfully harboring 

two Indonesian women to work as domestic servants whose passports she confiscated to 

maintain their services. 

United States v. Calimlim, et al. (Wisconsin) 

Two affluent doctors and their son in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were convicted in a forced 

labor conspiracy for coercing for more than 20 years a young Filipina national into providing 

domestic labor and services for them. The defendants allegedly told the victim that she would be 

imprisoned if she left their service and used a variety of other coercive means to break her will, 

including forbidding her from having social contacts, monitoring and limiting her mail, 

forbidding her use of the telephone, and requiring her to hide in her basement room when guests 

were in the house. The parents were sentenced to 48 months in prison and ordered to pay over 

$900,000 in back wages to the victim for her 15-hour work days over those two decades. Their 

son was sentenced to 120 days of home confinement, three years of supervised release, and 

ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. 

United States v. Ibrahim and Motelib (California) 

A couple from Egypt pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 36 and 22 months in prison 

and ordered to pay $38,000 restitution for bringing a 12-year-old Egyptian girl to the United 

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States and holding her in involuntary servitude. Once in this country, the victim was forced to 

live in a dark, unventilated garage, wash her clothes in a bucket, and work as a domestic servant 

for the defendants’ family, which included five children. The defendants held her documents, 

kept her isolated, and threatened that if she left the house she would be arrested. She was 

emotionally and physically abused and was not allowed to attend school. 

United States v. DuPreez, et al. (Georgia) 

Five defendants were charged in connection with a scheme to bring aliens, primarily from 

South Africa, into the United States illegally and to provide them with employment at their 

granite and marble business. Once in the United States, the aliens resided in apartments leased 

by the granite company, and they were induced to provide labor for cash or for credit against the 

cost of their rent, furniture, utilities, and visa applications. The defendants threatened to report 

the aliens’ illegal status to the immigration authorities as a means of keeping the aliens under 

their employment. Four defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to harbor aliens and were 

sentenced to terms of incarceration ranging from 24 to 108 months. In addition, Johannes 

DuPreez was ordered to pay $363,579.40 restitution to the IRS and to pay a $50,000 fine, while 

Franciszka DuPreez was ordered to pay $182,036 restitution to the IRS. A fifth defendant who 

pleaded guilty was sentenced to eight months home confinement and fined $2,000. 

United States v. Kang, et al. (New York) 

A Korean couple lured Korean women to New York City with promises of good jobs as 

hostesses in their nightclub, but once in the United States, they were forced into prostitution. 

The victims were subjected to physical abuse and rape while being held to repay a $10,000 debt, 

The Kangs pleaded guilty along with five other defendants. Among the other defendants were a 

U.S. Air Marshal and a CBP Officer, who attempted to force one of the victims to get on a flight 

to South Korea to keep her from testifying against the Kangs. Three defendants received prison 

terms of 120 months and a fourth defendant was sentenced to 33 months in prison. Two 

additional defendants were sentenced to three and four years probation respectively and the 

seventh defendant was sentenced to time served. Two defendants were also ordered to pay 

$85,976 restitution to the victims. 

United States v. Paoletti-Lemus, et al. (New York) 

Two defendants, previously charged in 1997 and extradited to the United States 

following incarceration in Mexico for their role in this case, were sentenced to 105 months in 

prison after pleading guilty to extortion for forcing dozens of deaf Mexicans to sell trinkets on 

the subways nearly ten years ago. Previously, 18 of their co-defendants pleaded guilty to 

recruiting and smuggling to the United States with the promises of good jobs approximately 60 

Mexican aliens, who were deaf and unable to speak, for the purpose of exploiting and abusing 

them for profit. The Mexican aliens were forced to work under conditions of servitude peddling 

key chain trinkets on the streets and subways of New York City. Seventeen defendants were 

sentenced to terms of incarceration ranging from 11 to 168 months and one defendant was 

sentenced to five years probation. 

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United States v. Yang, et al. (California) 

Thirty-six defendants were charged in four cases related to a sex trafficking conspiracy. 

The defendants allegedly ran a trafficking ring that smuggled women from Korea into the United 

States where they were forced to work as prostitutes in San Francisco. Twenty-one of the 

defendants have entered guilty pleas for their involvement in this scheme. 

United States v. Zheng and Liu (Northern Mariana Islands) 

Two defendants were convicted of sex trafficking charges for running several karaoke 

bars in Saipan that were fronts for prostitution. They worked with recruiter/brokers to bring 

women from China to the Northern Mariana Islands with promises that they would be working 

as waitresses but instead forced them into prostitution through debt, physical threats, and 

violence. The defendants were sentenced to 78 and 33 months in prison, fined $55,000 and 

ordered to pay $25,220 restitution to one victim and $22,220 to a second victim. 

2. ICE Investigations 

United States v. Carreto (New York) 

An ICE-led investigation conducted in collaboration with Mexican law enforcement 

targeted a sex trafficking organization that smuggled Mexican women into the United States. 

Upon arrival the women were forced into prostitution at various brothels on the East Coast with 

threats of violence against them and their children left in Mexico. The traffickers raped several 

of the women. Four defendants pleaded guilty to sex trafficking, forced labor, and human 

smuggling charges. In April 2006, two of the defendants were sentenced to 50 years 

imprisonment. Two other defendants received 25 years and six and one half years imprisonment, 

respectively. Another member of the organization was arrested in Mexico in October 2005 and 

was extradited to the United States. This case was prosecuted by attorneys in the Civil Rights 

Division at DOJ and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York. 

United States v. Zavala and Ibanez (New York) 

A husband and wife pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit forced labor, document 

servitude, and recruiting, harboring, transporting, and housing undocumented workers; engaging 

in extortionate credit transactions; and transferring false alien registration cards. Between June 1, 

1999, and June 21, 2004, Zavala and Ibanez orchestrated a scheme to illegally obtain visas for 

Peruvian aliens seeking to come into the United States. The defendants charged the aliens a 

smuggling fee ranging from $6,000 to $13,000. By confiscating their passports and threatening 

to turn them over to authorities, the defendants compelled the aliens to perform work for them 

and other employers. The defendants kept most of their paychecks, leaving the aliens with 

approximately $50 or less per week on which to live and support their families. More than 60 

Peruvian illegal aliens, including 13 children, who were living in cramped and squalid 

conditions, were granted continued presence and are receiving services through a nongovernmental organization. As part of their guilty pleas, the defendants agreed to forfeit a 

residence valued at $175,000 and bank accounts containing approximately $30,000 generated 

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through their crimes. Zavala was sentenced to 15 years of incarceration and Ibanez was 

sentenced to 11 years in prison. The investigation was initiated based upon information from an 

NGO trafficking victims group and subsequent interviews of victims conducted by ICE. 

This case was prosecuted by attorneys in the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s 

Office in the Eastern District of New York. 

United States v. Kim, Park, Bae, Lee, Shin, Lim (New York) 

ICE agents in New York, working with the FBI and NYPD, identified a criminal 

organization engaged in the smuggling and trafficking of undocumented South Korean women 

into the United States for the purpose of prostitution. In August 2006, 18 search warrants and 31 

arrest warrants were executed at brothels throughout the northeast United States. Once the 

women arrived in the United States, they were placed in one of numerous brothels in order to pay 

large financial debts owed to recruiters in Korea and to other members of the defendants’ 

organization. The owner or manager of the brothel confiscated identification and travel 

documents from the women and threatened to turn the women in to law enforcement and/or harm 

their families in Korea, should they leave the prostitution business before paying off their debts. 

Eleven defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit human smuggling, human 

trafficking, and Mann Act violations and all pleaded guilty. Four defendants were sentenced to 

prison terms of seven months (time served), 15 months, 27 months and 41 months, with the latter 

defendant also ordered to forfeit $200,000. A fifth defendant received probation. Sentencing is 

pending on the remaining defendants. This case was prosecuted by attorneys in the Civil Rights 

Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York. 

United States v. Telichenko (Florida) 

The defendant, a Ukrainian national, pleaded guilty to forced labor and was sentenced to 

78 months in prison for forcing a young Russian woman to engage in prostitution. The two met 

in Philadelphia where the defendant persuaded the victim to move Orlando. Shortly after 

arriving in Florida, Telichenko asked the victim to engage in prostitution in order to earn money. 

If the victim objected in any way, the defendant repeatedly and brutally beat the victim. The 

victim was rescued when the victim’s mother in Russia sought assistance from a nearby U.S. 

consular official who had been trained on anti-human trafficking by the Resident Legal Advisor 

in Moscow. After being contacted by the Consular officer, the RLA worked with the Embassy’s 

ICE agent, who in turn contacted ICE agents in Florida. The victim was located and provided 

assistance within 24 hours. The victim, fearful of being deported, was put in touch with an NGO 

in Moscow, who advised and encouraged the victim so that the trafficker could be prosecuted. 

This case was prosecuted by attorneys in the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s 

Office in the Middle District of Florida. 

Anthony Mark Bianchi (Pennsylvania) 

In March 2005, ICE agents in Philadelphia initiated an investigation of Anthony Mark 

Bianchi after he arrived at the Philadelphia International Airport from Romania. Customs and 

Border Protection Inspectors referred Bianchi for a secondary inspection. ICE agents who were 

present during the secondary exam discovered a piece of paper with a boy’s name, telephone 

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number, and address in Romania. Preliminary investigation by ICE agents revealed that in 

March 2000, Bianchi was arrested in Moscow, Russia for engaging in sex with children. He was 

sentenced to three years imprisonment but was granted amnesty by a Russian court and was 

expelled from Russia. The ICE Attaché Vienna, with the assistance of Moldovan and Romanian 

authorities, determined that Bianchi had engaged in sexual activity with a Moldovan child who 

was in the company of the boy from Romania. Analysis of seized documents led to the 

identification of Ion Gusin, a co-conspirator of Bianchi. During an interview with Moldovan 

authorities, Gusin admitted that during a trip to Cuba in December 2004, Bianchi paid Gusin 

$600 to have sex with Gusin’s thirteen-year-old brother. In January 2006, ICE agents arrested 

Bianchi at his residence in Wildwood, New Jersey, and Moldovan authorities arrested Gusin in 

Moldova with the assistance of the ICE Attaché Vienna. Bianchi was charged with child sex 

tourism (PROTECT Act) violations. Moldovan authorities charged Gusin with trafficking in 

persons violations. Bianchi was subsequently indicted for child sex tourism violations. 

George Hoey Morris 

In 2004, ICE’s Cyber Crimes Center investigated the Internet website 

www.virginbride.net for possible child exploitation violations. This website was owned and 

operated by George Hoey Morris, a citizen and resident of the United States. Morris claimed on 

his website that he had sex with numerous underage girls in Vietnam. Morris also wrote a book, 

“How to Marry a Bride,” to promote his website and teach other pedophiles how to obtain 

underage females in Vietnam. The ICE Attaché Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam worked with the 

ICE agents in Alabama to locate victims based on images posted on Morris’ website and in his 

book. The ICE Attaché Ho Chi Minh City was successful in identifying one of the female 

victims from Morris’ publications, and the victim agreed to cooperate with the ICE investigation. 

In June 2006, ICE Attaché Ho Chi Minh City personnel escorted Morris’ victim from Vietnam to 

Montgomery, Alabama to provide grand jury testimony and depositions regarding Morris. 

Morris was subsequently indicted in the Middle District of Alabama on several charges, 

including violations of the PROTECT Act. In October 2006, Morris was convicted of child sex 

tourism violations, federal firearms violations, and passport and visa fraud. He is currently 

awaiting sentencing on those charges. 

3. Criminal Division, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section 

United States v. Doss, et al. (California) 

On June 26, 2006, a jury in the Central District of California found Juan Rico Doss, of 

Reno, Nevada, guilty of two counts of sex trafficking of children, three counts of transporting 

minors into prostitution, one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children and 

transporting minors into prostitution, and two counts of witness tampering. Doss was found not 

guilty on one count of witness tampering. These charges arose from information that Doss 

prostituted two minor victims in both California and Reno, Nevada, during the first two weeks of 

May 2005. Doss, along with his wife Jacquay Quinn Ford, conspired to recruit a 14-year-old 

female and a 16-year-old female to work for Doss as prostitutes. Once recruited, Doss and his 

wife transported these victims to various locations in California including Los Angeles, 

Sacramento, San Francisco, and Oakland for the purpose of prostitution. On several occasions, 

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Doss and Ford also transported these minors from Los Angeles and other parts of California to 

Reno, Nevada for the purpose of prostitution. Prior to trial, Ford pleaded guilty to one count of 

conspiracy for her role in transporting these minors for the purpose of illegal sexual activity. On 

December 4, 2006, she was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment to be followed by three 

years’ supervised release. Doss, who has a prior state conviction for pandering of a child 

stemming from his transportation of other minors for the purpose of prostitution, faces a 

statutory term of mandatory life in prison for his conviction on the transporting of minors for the 

purpose of prostitution charge, and up to life in prison for sex trafficking of children by force. 

U.S. v. Evans, Yearby, and Madison (Florida) 

On March 15, 2006, Mark Madison of Miami, Florida, was sentenced to 168 months in 

prison for one count of knowingly benefiting from participation in a venture which had engaged 

in an act of sex trafficking of a child by force, fraud, or coercion and one count of conspiracy to 

transport a minor in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution. In January 2006, two other 

defendants—Justin Evans and Chad Yearby, both of Miami, Florida—were sentenced as a result 

of this same investigation and prosecution. Evans was sentenced to 282 months in prison and 

ordered to pay $15,846.57 in restitution as a result of his conviction for one count of trafficking a 

child by force, fraud, or coercion to engage in a commercial sex act and one count of using a 

facility of interstate commerce to entice a minor to engage in prostitution. Yearby was sentenced 

to 40 months’ imprisonment as a result of his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to transport a 

minor in interstate or foreign commerce for the purposes of prostitution. At sentencing, Yearby 

received consideration for his cooperation with the investigation, including providing 

information that led to the identification and location of additional underage victims. 

One of Evans’s victims was 14 years old at the time of the events in question. Evans 

would either procure “customers” for her, whom she would meet at rented hotel rooms, or he 

would force her to find customers by walking the streets. The victim gave all the money she 

earned to Evans. The then 14-year-old victim began working for Evans in approximately 

December 2004. Twice in 2005, she was hospitalized for treatment for complications of 

advanced AIDS. Evans knew both her age and her health condition. Despite her poor health, 

Evans told her she should work every day, even when she felt too sick to do so. After her first 

hospitalization in 2005, Evans contacted her numerous times by telephone to persuade her to 

continue working for him on the streets. On several occasions, Evans would beat her. 

Another victim was 16. Yearby took her from northern Florida to the Miami area, and 

introduced her to Madison. The victim began working as a prostitute for Madison, staying at his 

residence, at hotels, and occasionally at Yearby’s residence. Madison would either procure 

“customers” for her who she would meet at rented hotel rooms, or he would force her to find 

customers by walking the streets. Madison kept all the money the victim earned, provided her 

with condoms to use, and was aware of her age. Madison also had sexual relations with her. 

When she attempted to leave him, he beat her. 

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United States v. Brice (District of Columbia) 

On February 28, 2006, a federal jury sitting in the District of Columbia convicted Jaron 

Brice, also known as “Jaron,” “Jay,” “Jay Bird,” and “Daddy,” 27, of nine counts related to his 

illegal sex trafficking operation that involved the prostitution and sexual assault of females as 

young as 14 years old. Brice was charged with sex trafficking of a child and sex trafficking by 

force, interstate transportation of a minor and adult for prostitution, first degree child sexual 

abuse, and pandering. The evidence showed that from March 2004 through May 17, 2005, Brice 

recruited females as young as 14 years of age to engage in prostitution for his own financial 

benefit. He caused these females to prostitute in D.C. and other locations, including Maryland, 

New York, and Florida. He used emotional and physical violence, including armed threats, to 

ensure their compliance with his rules. Brice also had sexual intercourse with one of his 

prostitutes, then 14 years old. On September 15, 2006, Brice was sentenced to 30 years’ 

imprisonment and a ten-year term of supervised release. 

United States v. Obert (California) 

On February 1, 2006, Timothy Ronald Obert, a former Peace Corps volunteer, pleaded 

guilty in the Northern District of California to sexual abuse of a minor for engaging in sexual 

acts with a minor boy, who was 14 years old, while Obert was working in the Peace Corps 

in Costa Rica. Obert had been charged with traveling in foreign commerce and engaging in 

illicit sexual conduct, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c), and sexual abuse of a minor 

within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, in violation of 

18 U.S.C. § 2243(a) and 18 U.S.C. § 7(9)(B). Obert admitted to knowingly and intentionally 

engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a Costa Rican minor in the apartment in which he was 

residing. This case is the first prosecution of a Peace Corps volunteer for sexually assaulting a 

minor while serving in the Peace Corps in a foreign country. In addition, this case is one of the 

first prosecutions making use of 18 U.S.C. § 7(9), a statute enacted under the PATRIOT Act, 

which expanded the special and maritime jurisdiction of the United States to encompass 

residences in foreign countries that were being used by U.S. personnel on U.S. missions. This 

case is pending sentencing. 

United States v. Evans (Florida) 

On May 23, 2006, Gary Evans was indicted on one count of conspiring to arrange the 

travel of an individual for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct, specifically, a 

commercial sex act with a person under 18 years of age, and one count of arranging such travel. 

He pleaded guilty on October 23, 2006, to the conspiracy count and was sentenced on January 

22, 2007, to 250 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. According to the plea 

agreement, Evans contacted the operator of a Web site that purported to sell “sex tour” packages 

to overseas locations. According to the site, the tour price would include an under-age 

companion who would have sex with the traveler. Evans proposed a partnership with the 

operator of that site in which they would jointly operate tours to Honduras and Costa Rica, where 

clients would pay to have sex with minors. However, the site was actually part of an FBI 

undercover investigation. 

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Appendix C: United States Government Funds Obligated in FY 2006 for Anti-Trafficking in Persons Project

FUNDING (e.g. USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

USAID AF DRC UNICEF and 

COOPI 

X 

Identification of and reintegration assistance for women and child victims of sexual violence, abduction and child prostitution. 

DOS/PRM AF Ghana IOM 

X X 

Counseling, transportation, family tracing and reunification for child victims, including reintegration assistance in province/country of origin. 

USAID AF Guinea Save the 

Children 

X 

Cross-border awareness building campaign 

targeting towns through which most of the cross-border traffic between Guinea and Mali must pass. 

DOL/ILAB AF Mali International 

Labor Organization ­International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor 

X X 

The project will focus on combating the worst forms of child labor in Mali, including exploitation of children in domestic labor, commercial sexual exploitation, and hazardous work in agriculture, small–scale mining, and the urban informal sector, including those children who have been trafficked into such exploitive labor. 

USAID AF Nigeria ABA 

X 

X 

Supplies and staff training for a shelter for trafficking victims in Lagos; development of specialized operations manuals for law enforcement and "bench books" for judges. 

DOS/PRM AF Sierra Leone IOM 

X X X 

Provide return and reintegration assistance for TIP victims, including job skills development through the Sierra Leonean Diaspora. 

DOS/ECA AF South Africa Ms. Susan 

Kreston 

CIES - Fulbright US Scholar X 

Trafficking in Children in South Africa 

USAID AF South Africa IOM 

X 

Advocacy and organizational development training for NGO leaders of all the members of 

the IOM network assisting trafficking victims. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/PRM AF Southern 

African Development Community (SADC) 

IOM 

X X X 

Regional program of prevention, capacitybuilding, and victims' assistance in the SADC region. 

DOS/GTIP AF Tanzania Interagency 

Agreement (IAA) INL - DOJ 

X 

Law enforcement capacity building ­multidisciplinary anti-TIP task forces in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. 

DOS/GTIP AF Tanzania Interagency 

Agreement (IAA) INL - DOJ 

X 

Expand law enforcement program to an additional site - either in the mines or the agricultural area. 

DOS/PRM AF Tanzania IOM 

X X 

TIP victims assistance, awareness-raising in affected communities, technical cooperation with governmental entities and NGOs. 

USAID AF Uganda GUSCO (Gulu), 

KICWA (Kitgum), Concerned Parents Association (Kitgum), CARITAS (Pader), St. Joseph's hospital (Kitgum), RUFOU (Gulu)

 X 

Direct support to four reception centers and two 

night commuter shelters in three war-affected districts. Activities are closely linked with existing USAID programming. 

USAID AF West Africa 

Regional (Mali, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire 

Population Media Center 

X 

Radio program to educate people about trafficking and how to combat it. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOL/ILAB AF Zambia International 

Labor Organization ­International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor 

X X 

Among the WFCL in Zambia are commercial sexual exploitation, mining and quarrying, domestic service, agricultural work, and work in the urban informal economy. In addition, child trafficking is increasingly recognized as a serious problem that requires immediate attention. Given the policy and implementation environment in Zambia, the objectives of this project are: 1) to equip the Government of Zambia and its relevant partner organizations with the necessary skills to design, implement and monitor initiatives that address the WFCL through a national TBP; and 2) to develop models of intervention for providing direct support to children and families which can be expanded within a national time bound program against WFCL. One strategy the project will apply to achieve these objectives is to develop a national plan of action and a draft implementation and evaluation framework against exploitative child labor, including child trafficking. 

DOS/EAP EAP All AED Continue refining TOPIC website. DOS/GTIP EAP Asia-wide USAID MTV Europe 

Foundation; MTV Networks Asia X 

To help support MTV Europe Foundation and MTV Networks Asia Pacific work with USAID to raise awareness about, and increase prevention of TIP in Asia. 

DOS/GTIP EAP Cambodia Hagar 

X X 

X X 

For Hagar to expand its assistance to former victims of trafficking by expanding business operations that employs them. Funding will be utilized to expand a soy milk factory, catering operation, and textile production. 

DOS/PRM EAP Cambodia IOM Support for the Poipet Transit Center; 

reintegration assistance for victims into their communities of origin. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

USAID EAP Cambodia The Asia 

Foundation 

Catholic Relief Service, World Vision-Cambodia, International Justice Mission, Center for Advanced Study 

X X X 

Prevention, protection reintegration and prosecution activities following on and expanding efforts of previous years. 

USAID EAP Cambodia The Asia 

Foundation 

TBD 

X 

Pilot shelter program as required by TVPRA 2005 (funding from EGAT/WID) 

DOS/PRM EAP Cambodia ­

Vietnam Regional 

IOM 

X X X 

Protection, return transportation and reintegration assistance to TIP victims; preventive education campaign through Cambodian government schools; Includes prevention and assistance components for crossborder trafficking with Vietnam. 

DOS/PRM EAP Indonesia IOM 

X X X 

Protection, return transportation, medical and psycho-social care and reintegration assistance to TIP victims; capacity-building for Indonesian service-providers, including government services. 

DOS/PRM EAP Indonesia IOM 

X X X 

Supplement funding for IOM activities under the POTUS initiative for Indonesia: Protection, return transportation, medical and psycho-sociacare and reintegration assistance to TIP victimscapacity-building for Indonesian serviceproviders, including government services. 

DOS/GTIP EAP Indonesia/Malay 

sia Regional 

Interagency Agreement (IAA) INL - DOJ X 

X 

Funds contingent on matching requirement by GOM. Law enforcement capacity building at the working level; goal is to better identify and treat victims and increase prosecutions. 

DOS/EAP EAP Laos Save the 

Children Australia X 

Economic development for at-risk of trafficking rural women 

DOS/PRM EAP Mekong Region 

(Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, China/Sunnan Province) 

IOM 

X X 

Pre-return, transportation, and reintegration assistance for TIP victims; capacity building activities. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/PRM EAP Mongolia IOM 

X X X 

Capacity Building and preventive activities, including the provision of return and reintegration assistance for TIP victims of all nationalities. 

DOS/EAP EAP Philippines Third World 

Movement Against the Exploitation of Women (TWMAEW) 

X 

Provide livelihood for sexually exploited women. 

DOS/ECA EAP Philippines Mr. Justin 

Hakuta 

IIE - Fulbright US Student X 

NGOs Combating Human Trafficking in the Philippines 

USAID EAP Philippines The Asia 

Foundation X X 

Expand shelter and transit center capacities in strategic airports, broadcast media campaigns, database development for reintegration. 

USAID EAP Philippines MSI 

X X 

Strengthen enforcement of anti-trafficking law to increase arrests, prosecutions and convictions 

USAID EAP Philippines The Asia 

Foundation X X 

Expand shelter and transit center capacities in strategic airports, broadcast media campaigns, database development for reintegration. 

USAID EAP South East Asia 

Regional 

Vital Voices 

X 

Regional anti-trafficking conference (WID) 

USAID EAP South East Asia 

Regional 

MTV Europe Foundation and MTV Networks Asia Pacific 

X 

Coordinated anti-trafficking campaign involving documentaries and films, events, and on-line messages 

58
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOL/ILAB EAP Thailand International 

Labor Organization ­International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor 

X 

In support of the National Plan of Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Laborthe project will focus on prevention of the WFCL through awareness raising, education and vocational training, improved and alternative family livelihoods, etc. The project will focus on the withdrawal of those in WFCL and hazardous work by ensuring workplace improvements, shorter working hours, and provision of education (non-formal and formal) and vocational training as an alternative to labor. The project will promote improved education and training policies; promote the integration of child labor concerns in regional and bilateral processes on migration and trafficking; and promote safer migration for children through engagement on migration policies and their implementation. The initial core target sectors will be agriculture, fishing, services, and domestic work, with emphasis on trafficking issues across sectors. 

DOS/GTIP EAP Thailand EMBASSY 

NAS 

X X X 

Funds to support the Embassy host a regional workshop on improving civil society and government collaboration to combat trafficking in the greater Mekong sub-region. The workshop will include representatives from government, law enforcement, and NGO leaderfrom Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, and China. 

DOS/PRM EAP Thailand IOM 

X X X 

Provision of psychosocial assistance and skill development to TIP victims awaiting repatriation; dissemination of preventive video. 

DOS/EAP EAP Vietnam ADAPT 

X 

Provide community development training for women in remote Mekong delta villages. 

DOS/PRM EAP Vietnam IOM 

X X X 

Awareness-raising through the Vietnamese Women's Unions; on-the-job training for women at high risk of being trafficked and for returning victims in Quang Ninh province; capacity building of government and NGOs. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/ECA EAP Taiwan Ms. Marcelyn 

Thompson 

IIE - Fulbright US Student 

X 

Counseling and Reintegrating Trafficking Victims in Taiwan 

USAID EUR Albania Creative Assoc. 

X X X 

Awards and manages sub grants to local actors to carry out prevention and reintegration activities. Facilitates capacitybuilding/coordination of NGO and government actors. 

USAID EUR Albania Terre des 

Hommes 

X X X 

In cooperation with six local NGOs and an extensive field presence, the project works to reduce child trafficking through prevention, protection, assisted voluntary return, reintegration and coordination. 

DOL/ILAB EUR Albania, 

Bulgaria, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine 

International Labor Organization ­International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor 

X X 

The project will provide direct services to withdraw or prevent child victims and children at risk of trafficking and other worst forms of child labor in key sectors (sexual exploitation, street work, illicit activities, and agriculture). Specific activities include Identifying and providing rehabilitation and support services to children withdrawn from the worst forms of child labor; providing non-formal education and recreational activities to prevent children from trafficking and exploitative labor situations and maintain children within the formal education system; supporting youth centers and peer to peer education; promoting youth employment for withdrawn and at risk children of legal working age; providing TA for trafficking and child labor related national strategies and plans of action; working with governments, employers, trade unions and other social partners to raise the awareness; and mobilizing employers’ organizations to prevent exploitativchild labor through the adoption of codes of conduct. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/INL EUR Armenia IO IOM and/or OSCE 

X X X 

Development of training programs and trainthe-trainer assistance on trafficking investigations, prosecution and victim/witness protection; training and technical assistance in task force development; development of programs that address victim interviewing and protection based on INL-funded TIP research; assistance in developing mechanisms to ensure that children are not trafficked through adoption agencies. 

DOS/ECA EUR Austria Mr. Robert 

Scaife 

IIE - Fulbright US Student X 

Analysis of Immigration and Trafficking 

DOS/INL EUR Azerbaijan IO OSCE and CEELI 

X X X 

The Senior Law Enforcement Advisor (SLEA), in conjunction with OSCE and the RLA, will train vetted specialized anti-TIP police and prosecution units. The RLA and SLEA, in coordination with OSCE, IOM and ABA/CEELI, will train domestic NGOs to conduct public awareness raising activities. ThRLA and SLEA will develop curriculum and training programs for police, prosecutors and judges to recognize trafficking and prosecute traffickers. 

DOS/PRM EUR Belarus IOM 

X X X 

Continuation of reintegration and protection assistance for TIP victims; continued support for the development of civil society in preventing and combating trafficking, including capacity-building training and technical support

DOS/EUR EUR Bosnia and 

Herzegovina 

Women's Center, Trenenje 

X 

This project will continue the previously funded program to raise awareness among primary and secondary school students in the region of Eastern Herzegovina on human trafficking problems. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

USAID EUR BosniaHerzegovina IOM Vasa Prava, Buducnost, CARE 

International, Center for Free Access to Information, Foundation of Local Democracy, International Forum of Solidarity, La Strada BiH, LARA, Medica Zenica, Women BiH; Women for Women International 

X X X 

Support for the BiH Government's implementation of a national action plan. USAID's activity provides legal services and other services to trafficking victims. 

DOS/PRM EUR Bulgaria IOM 

X X X 

Ongoing support to sustain the development of a National Counter-Trafficking Partnership Network (established in FY05) to combat and prevent TIP, in partnership with the governmenof Bulgaria; establishment of local anti-TIP councils in the primary source regions of Bulgaria; continued reintegration assistance for victims of TIP. 

USAID EUR Bulgaria IOM 

X X X 

Capacity-building assistance to the GOB in implementing the Anti-trafficking legislation; refurbishing and equipping a shelter for trafficking victims, providing small grants to indigenous organizations for community-based work. 

DOS/EUR EUR Bulgaria Board of 

Trustees of Yane Sandanski High School X 

The program will organize a weekend training event for students in Sandanski and a weekend seminar for selected members of the surrounding communities to address problems of youth and the phenomenon of trafficking in persons with a special focus on how to protect girls from falling victim to forced prostitution. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/EUR EUR Bulgaria Diva 

Foundation for Care in the Community X X 

FCC Diva will train police officers specifically commissioned to work with at-risk youth on issues of TIP, prevention of TIP, and advocacy to victims of TIP. These trained police officers will then conduct trainings jointly with FCC Diva trainers in Plovdiv area high schools, which house students who may be at higher risk of falling prey to TIP. 

DOS/EUR EUR Bulgaria Nadja Center 

Foundation 

X X 

The project’s purpose is to implement long-term strategies for the complete and stable reintegration and re-socialization of the victims of trafficking (VOT). Furthermore, the main goal is to prevent the re-trafficking processes through long-term therapy and social support for the VOT and to provide qualified care in concordance with the professional standards and criteria. 

DOS/EUR EUR Croatia Gender Task 

Force 

X 

This project aims to develop preventive educational modules through which young people (focusing on secondary education), their teachers, parents, friends, and the population in whole will get information about trafficking in human beings, its increased presence, and dangers. 

DOS/EUR EUR Croatia SOS Phone ­

Call for Help 

X 

The "Save Our Souls through Saving Our Bodies" project intends to educate graduating secondary school students about the dangers and threats of human trafficking. 

DOS/EUR EUR Croatia Women's Room At this point, it is necessary to conduct an 

assessment analysis of situation regarding TIP in Croatia, for the period from 2002 to 2005, which will include all forms of TIP, not just for sexual exploitation. 

X 

USAID EUR Cyprus UNDP Local NGOs - TBD 

X X X 

Awareness-raising of trafficking in human beings, especially women and children in the sex trade, and strengthening victim and witness support (modification of previously obligated grant to allow for anti-trafficking activities). 

DOS/ECA EUR Estonia Dr. Juri Saar CIES - Fulbright 

Visiting Scholar 

Trafficking of Women for Sexual Exploitation X in Estonia and the United States 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

USAID EUR Europe and 

Eurasia Regional 

UNODC 

X 

X 

Segment (covering Albania and Romania) of film documenting human trafficking worldwide 

USAID EUR Europe and 

Eurasia Regional 

ICMPD 

X 

X 

Support establishment of comprehensive, effective and institutionalized transnational victim referral network in South East Europe. 

USAID EUR Georgia Georgian Young 

Lawyers' Association X X 

Increase public awareness, provide legal aid, train professionals, and support the development of trafficking victims' shelters 

USAID EUR Kosovo Catholic Relief 

Service 

(Local NGOs) Protect Victims Prevent Trafficking (PVPT), Kosovo Law Center (KLC), KOPF 

X X X 

Research and public information to better enable partners to reach out to communities; monitoring and advocating for implementation of Kosovo Plan of Action to fight trafficking, assist core NGOs in providing improved victim assistance services. 

DOS/EUR EUR Kosovo Women 

Network " Qeliza" 

X 

The six-month campaign project consists of 24 lectures/workshops with women and young girlfrom the secondary schools across the municipality, publication of posters, brochures and leaflets, two one-hour radio and 6 one-hour TV talk programs, 1 debate and 1 round-table discussions to raise awareness and create a community dialogue about the problems of trafficking in the Gjakova municipality (fourth largest city in Kosovo, close to the border with Albania). 

DOS/ECA EUR Latvia Mrs. Liesma 

Ose 

CIES - Fulbright Visiting Scholar X 

Efficiency of Social Services Provisions for Victims of Human Trafficking 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/EUR EUR Macedonia All for Fair 

Trials Coalition 

X X 

The coalition 'All for Fair Trials' will monitor trials related to Organized Crime in general and Trafficking in Persons separately in all courts in the Republic of Macedonia. The coalition will gather data about all scheduled hearings related to organized crime including trafficking in persons. The coalition will monitor trials from March 2006 until November 2006 when the coalition will hold round table to discuss the findings of their monitors with representatives of the Judiciary and provide recommendations for enhancement of the trails and the approach to handling organized crime cases from the judiciary. 

DOS/EUR EUR Macedonia Civil Initiative 

for Equal Opportunities "SEMPER" Bitola 

X X 

This project will enable training of 20 representatives from 10 NGOs of 10 cities: Bitola, Struga, Tetovo, Kumanovo, Strumica, Gevgelija, Kicevo, Ohrid, Kriva Palanka and Kocani in order to be competent to accompany children victims of trafficking. The representatives from the NGOs (pedagogues, psychologists, health workers, teachers) will be trained in: re-socialization and re-integration program for the children victims of trafficking in Human beings, guide for protection of the children victims of trafficking, children’ rights convention, action plan to combat trafficking in children, approach and working with children, gaining communication and social skills, techniques for reducing stress effects. 

DOS/EUR EUR Macedonia Women 

Organization Radika 

X 

Target group of 300 youth aged high school students. Project activities will be carried out in the villages of Reka region: Zirovnica, Rostushe, Mogorche, Skudrinje, Dolno Kosovrasti, Gorno Kosovrasti, and Otishani. The project plans to carry out ten workshops for 25-30 participants. Lecturing and informing about trafficking as organized crime act. 

DOS/PRM EUR Moldova IOM 

X X X 

Engaging the faith-based community in Moldova to prevent and combat TIP, and assist victims, in the form of training and capacitybuilding activities for both the Romanian and Russian branches of the Orthodox Churches 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

USAID EUR Moldova UNDP 

X 

Continuation of President's Initiative Activity, providing shelter and victims services for trafficking victims. 

USAID EUR Romania USDOJ/OPDAT 

/RLA Bucharest 

X 

X 

Improve policy and coordination in antitrafficking with a focus on prosecution and the judiciary system. 

DOS/EUR EUR Romania 2000 Femina 

Roman Association 

X 

The name of the project is 'Human traffic = SLAVERY' - Informational and educational campaign regarding human traffic prevention among teenagers from the country side and it will be implemented for 10 months in schools from Neamt county. The activities developed with teenagers will be: seminars, debates, contests etc. The project aims to organize an educational and informational campaign for teenagers from 13 to 19 years old regarding human trafficking. 

DOS/ECA EUR Russia Ms. Elizabeth 

Hoody 

IIE - Fulbright US Student X 

Domestic Violence and Anti-Trafficking in the Irkutsk Region 

DOS/ECA EUR Russia Mr. Fedor 

Sinitsyn 

IIE - Humphrey Program X X X X 

Research on prevention of trafficking, persecution of traffickers and protection of victims; working with NGOs 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/EUR EUR Russia Center Against 

Violence and Human Trafficking (Perm) 

X 

The goal of this project is to step up trafficking prevention and improve assistance to victims by means of providing specialized training to police officers and enhancing cooperation among NGOs and various agencies dealing with trafficking prevention and response. To accomplish this goal, the project will provide training seminars to about 150 police officers and instructors of Police Training Centers. It will produce and disseminate publications intended both for police persons and the generapublic (a total of 1,700 copies). Information about the project as well as the content of the training will be disseminated via the Center’s web site and the “End-Traffick-CIS” emailing list, which has 300 subscribers. The wrap-up workshop will gather about 25 police officers to discuss ways of dissemination of project’s outcomes to other regions of Russia and elaborate ways of further NGO-GO collaboration for the future. 

DOS/EUR EUR Russia Center for 

Social Support of Women 

X 

The ultimate goal of the current project is to establish a multiregional youth volunteer network devoted to trafficking prevention. To accomplish this goal, the project will identify about 25 volunteers in five districts of western and central Russia to form five regional volunteer teams. The project envisions training seminars for regional volunteer teams resulting in the development of trafficking prevention regional action plans. Awareness events to be conducted by volunteer teams in participant districts (10-12 events in every district) will include meetings at schools, colleges, and libraries; dissemination of information materials, demonstration of training videos, guided group discussions, and the training of new volunteers. The project will produce the Trainer’s Portfolio (500 copies) to be disseminated as a training tool. It will conclude with a conference to present peer training trafficking prevention programs developed in the course of the project. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/EUR EUR Russia Crisis Center for 

Women and Children Victims of Domestic Violence "Yekaterina" 

X 

The goal of the current project is to launch a wide-scale awareness campaign involving broad categories of population in Yekaterinburg and several other districts in the Urals area. To accomplish this goal, the project will conduct a round table for representatives of state agenciesjournalists, and NGOs to discuss interagency cooperation in launching a joint response to trafficking. It will hold training seminars for several key target audiences – university teachers, journalists, prosecutors, and NGOs – to expose them to relevant legislation and lawenforcement, tactics used by traffickers, work with at-risk categories, victim support, and others. The project will produce a wide range of information materials totaling more than 2,000 copies and develop a web site focusing on trafficking prevention. The site will consistently alert the public against fraudulent practices used by traffickers and provide on-line consultations. The project will train a team of volunteer students to work as hot line consultants on trafficking prevention issues. The project will wrap up with a conference to discuss cooperation with prosecutors’ offices and other government agencies in mounting across-the-board response to human trafficking. 

DOS/GTIP EUR Russia MiraMed 

Institute 

Angel Coalition 

X X X 

Funds to support the MiraMed Institute and the Angel Coalition combat trafficking in persons in Russia by building government, criminal justice, and civil society capacity to assist victims and apprehend perpetrators. Activities include: building capacity and sustainability of the Angel Coalition; conducting training for federal and regional law enforcement officials; providing education and training for media, tour agencies, dating services, and employment services; and creating a child-friendly system of rescue and rehabilitation for trafficking children in Moscow. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/GTIP EUR Russia MiraMed 

Institute 

Angel Coalition 

X X X 

Year Two: For MiraMed to continue its work with the Angel Coalition of Russian antitrafficking NGOs to raise awareness about trafficking, provide assistance to victims, and conduct training for Russian government and law enforcement officials. Second year activities include continuation of the NGO trafficking victim safe house network, opening two new shelter for children trafficked into Moscow, support to the anti-trafficking hotlines operational in Russia and key destination countries. 

DOS/GTIP EUR Russia American 

University/ TraCC 

X X X 

Year Two: Building awareness of human trafficking among Russian government officials at the local and regional levels. American University/TraCC developed a case-based and interactive training program on combating trafficking in collaboration with NGOs and scholars in Russia. During second year activities, American University/TraCC will implement the curriculum to develop awareness of trafficking among Russia's government officials at the local level responsible for policymaking, legislative and law enforcement/ American University will host two training workshops in Moscow, Saratov, Irkutsk, and Vladivostok and conduct quarterly working group meetings among NGOs, academics and government officials. 

USAID EUR Russia ABA-CEELI X 

X 

USAID EUR Russia Winrock Prevention activities in the Russian Far East 

including increasing the capacity of NGOs, educational institutions and families to prevent 

human trafficking and reinforce positive qualities in youth. (incremental funding for 

fourth year) 

DOS/ECA EUR Turkey Mrs. Ilknur 

Altuntas 

IIE - Humphrey Program X 

Strengthen background to increase and improve on the prosecution and conviction of traffickers in Turkey, prepare victims for judicial system 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/EUR EUR Ukraine Poltava 

Business Incubator 

X 

The applicant proposes to raise public awareness of trafficking issues in eight rayons of Poltava Oblast and strengthen cooperation between NGOs, government and media to prevent trafficking in persons. The target audience for this project is vocational school students, the unemployed and women in 8 rayons. Project activities include surveys to determine awareness of trafficking issues, educational seminars and roundtables with local officials, an informational booklet, a program on local TV, and a final public hearing on the survey results. 

DOS/EUR EUR Ukraine Vira, Nadiya, 

Liubov, Rivne Charity Organization 

X X 

Faith, Hope, Love will contribute to the prevention of trafficking in persons through offering an alternative to those who seek work abroad. The NGO will provide women in Odesa Oblast with the skills and tools necessary for successful participation in the Ukrainian economy and civil society. The organization will reach out to women marginalized by society, including returning trafficking victims. The initiative will provide workforce development and business development training, legal and psychological consultation, networking opportunities, optional internships, job placement assistance, and will facilitate access to credit. This project is based on the successful Women’s Economic Empowerment and Anti-Trafficking Programs implemented in Ukraine by USAID in the past. The target audience for the project will include marginalized women such as returning victims of trafficking, HIV/AIDS-positive women, women in prostitution who wish to reintegrate into society, single mothers, and victims of domestic violence. The women who will participate in the program will receive an opportunity to gain steady employment with room for advancement, obtain a higher wage, or to start new businesses. The project will result in rehabilitating newly returned victims of human trafficking as well as preventing trafficking in persons in Odesa Oblast. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

USAID EUR Ukraine IOM Ukrainian NGOs 

TBD 

X X X X 

Direct support to victim assistance and prevention work of NGOs, faith based organizations and other local groups; development of public/private NGO networks alocal, national and transnational levels; improved information on scope of trafficking. 

DOS/ECA Global AF/WHA/EAP/ 

NEA/SCA/EUR 

106 International Visitors 

The International Visitor Leadership Program X X X X 

106 government officials, human rights activists, law enforcement officials, and NGO representatives explore U.S. efforts to combat trafficking in persons at the local, state, and national levels. 

DOS/GTIP GLOBAL Geneva, 

Switzerland 

IOM 

X 

X 

Funds to contribute to the expansion of the IOM Global Database which collects information on the TIP victims assisted by IOM. The database compiles a unique level of detail on individual victims and their experiences. Note: The grant was actually for $400,000; $150,000 was accounted for previously in the FY05 chart, and due to circumstances on the ground G/TIP had to reprogram it. 

DOL/ILAB Global Global ORC-Macro 

X 

(1) conduct a desk review of available literature on the use of forced adult and child labor in the production of products in selected countries; (2) carry out a desk review of available literature on the use of child labor in the production of products in selected countries; and (3) conduct in-country data collection on the use of forced adult and child labor as well as child labor in the production of products in selected countriesCountries in which in-country research is to be carried out will be selected based on data gathered through the desk reviews. 

USAID Global Global Chemonics 

International 

Creative Associates, Partners of the Americas, IREX, Charney Research 

X X X X 

Incremental funding of three year contract providing technical assistance (including projecdesign and assessment) to USAID field missions and other USAID operating units. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/PRM Global Global IOM 

X X 

Development and launch of training modules to train government officials and NGOs on major anti-trafficking issues relating to victims' assistance and protection. Development of one module focused on Performance Indicator Toolfor anti-TIP programs (3Ps). 

DOS/PRM Global Global IOM Counter-trafficking training for religious 

personnel (Catholic, Orthodox, Buddhist) 

DOS/PRM NEA Morocco IOM 

X X 

Capacity-building of government and NGO representatives to prevent and combat TIP, and assist victims, through delivery of the Countertrafficking Training Modules that were developed by IOM and funded by PRM. 

DOS/GTIP NEA Middle East - 

Special Project: Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia 

Protection Project 

X X 

To provide legislative assistance to combat labor trafficking in six Persian Gulf countries consisting of technical assistance in drafting comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation, building alliances with NGOs and other members of civil society to support legislative reform, and organizing a regional summit to seek collective endorsement of amendments to domestic legislation and beginning regional cooperation. 

DOS/PRM SCA Afghanistan IOM 

X X 

Conduct a series of workshops to train Afghan Officials about trafficking in persons, institute reporting mechanisms and guidelines to provide assistance to TIP victims 

USAID SCA Bangladesh IOM 

X X X 

Activities to strengthen counter-trafficking interventions in prevention, protection, rescue, voluntary repatriation and prosecution. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOL/ILAB SCA India International 

Labor Organization ­International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor 

X 

The project will work with migrant children who are at high risk of being trafficked. Children are working in suburban areas of Mumbai, Jalna (Maharashtra) and Thiruvallur (Tamil Nadu), who have migrated either with their families to work in the brick kiln, sugar cane, and zari (embroidery) manufacturing sectors. Some work will also be done in sending areas in Bihar state. 

DOS/GTIP SCA India UNODC 

X 

X 

For UNODC to expand its law enforcement training to Hyderabad (an additional city to the UNODC law enforcement project). 

DOS/GTIP SCA India UNIFEM Sthree, Adhar 

Kendra, Odanad, Seva Sarnsthe, Sanloap, Prayas 

X 

To fund key NGOs that support/promote USG policy and assist TIP victims via UNIFEM. 

DOS/GTIP SCA India UNIFEM Prerana, Apne Aap, 

St Catherine's Home, Save the Children/SOS 

X X 

Victim return and reintegration assistance by civil society organizations in collaboration with law enforcement efforts. 

DOS/GTIP SCA India UNIFEM Bhoornixa Vihar, 

Bhoruka, Impulse NGO Network, Apne Aap Women

 X 

Anti-TIP programs along borders and expanded short-stay transit homes. 

DOS/GTIP SCA India Daywalka 

Foundation / Freedom Firm

 X X 

For the Daywalka Foundation to work with the Freedom Firm to promote investigation, prosecution, and conviction of traffickers. The project will facilitate the rescue of children forced into prostitution and seek justice against the traffickers; mobilize law enforcement agencies to rescue victims and arrest perpetrators; and assist the legal system in the prosecution of perpetrators. The project will support a Regional Intervention Unit comprised of up to ten people on two teams serving as investigators, lawyers, and social workers that will deploy to identify minor girls in prostitution, convey that information to the police and conduct an intervention to rescue the girls. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/GTIP SCA India UNIFEM Apne Aap 

X 

X X 

Funds for Apne Aap to continue operating its community outreach centers in high-risk trafficking locations in Bihar, West Benegal, 

New Delhi, and Maharashtra. The centers target children at risk for second generation prostitution and provide them educational opportunities. The centers also work with the mothers to pull them out of prostitution. 

DOS/GTIP SCA India UNIFEM HELP 

X 

X X 

Funds for HELP to continue its work to improve anti-trafficking activities through victim assistance and legal advocacy. 

DOS/GTIP SCA India UNIFEM Bachpan Bachao 

Andolan 

X 

X X 

Bachpan Bachao Andolan will work to raise public awareness about child labor trafficking through an awareness campaign. The project will also gather information about children trafficked into labor exploitation and work with authorities to rescue them. The NGO will also provide former victims with rehabilitative assistance. 

DOS/GTIP SCA India UNIFEM Prayas 

X 

X X 

Prayas will continue to provide child trafficking victims with comprehensive assistance and educational opportunities. 

DOS/GTIP SCA India UNIFEM Overhead/Administ 

rative Fees 

Funds to support UNIFEM administration and management of the four projects above. 

DOS/GTIP SCA India World 

Bank/IFC 

X 

Funding to identify, expand, and create income generating, and therefore job creating, opportunities for victims of trafficking and modern-day slavery by replicating the successful Hagar business model in India. The grantee will conduct an in-depth country appraisal to establish the viability of replicating Hagar’s business model in India with existing local organizations by examining four different replication models; select one or two business models for implementation with proposed Indian partners; and select local partner organizations and create a development plan. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/GTIP SCA India International 

Justice Mission (IJM)

 X X 

Year Two: IJM to expand its operation to Bangalore and concentrated its efforts on combating trafficking for forced labor. In Bangalor, IJM will replicate its activities to initiate investigations that identify trafficking victims; secure release of the victims through coordination with local law enforcement; and facilitate the placement of the rescued victims. 

DOS/PRM SCA India IOM 

X 

Assistance to TIP victims, including protection, return transportation, and reintegration assistance in province/country of origin, including income generating activities. 

DOS/EUR SCA Kazakhstan Phoenix Center 

for Development and Adaption 

X 

The center will focus on orphans and their needs to help them adjust to new conditions and to prevent them from becoming victims of modern-day slavery. Due to their confinement in orphanages and lack of access to informationorphans are a most vulnerable group and could become victims of traffickers. The goal of this project is to train orphans and educate them about their rights, as well as provide counseling and legal assistance. The center is also providing legal and psychological assistance to those who are trafficking victims and are psychologically traumatized. They need legal and psychological support because they risk being an easy target for traffickers again. The other goal of the organization is to reintegrate victims, helping them return to social life and recover. 

DOS/INL SCA Kazakhstan IOM 

X 

Continue public outreach and to advocate for continued legal reform in the area of trafficking in persons 

DOS/INL SCA Kazakhstan Embassy Improve repatriation rates of trafficked women 

and provide GOK investigators with intelligence on traffickers and establish and equip an anti-TIP training center at the MVD academy in Karaganda 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

USAID SCA Kazakhstan IOM 

X X 

Building and improving local and administrative capacity including awareness raising among vulnerable groups, vocational training, crisis center, shelters, and training for government and private sector leaders. 

USAID SCA Kyrgyzstan IOM 

X X 

Building and improving local and administrative capacity including awareness raising among vulnerable groups, vocational training, crisis center, shelters, and training for government and private sector leaders. 

DOL/ILAB SCA Nepal International 

Labor Organization ­International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor 

X 

One component of this project is to create an enabling environment for the effective implementation of the Kamaiya Labor Prohibition Act and the Child Labor Prohibition Act. Activities include identification of communities and pertinent issues for awareness raising on the negative effects of child bonded labor and trafficking in children; Mobilization for awareness raising activities; Development oaudio, video, print and other materials against child bonded labor, bonded labor, and trafficking in children; Observing World Day Against Child Labor (June 12) for raising awareness on issues of child bonded labor and trafficking in children. 

DOS/GTIP SCA Pakistan IOM 

X 

X 

Funding to support IOM conduct an extensive public awareness campaign throughout Pakistan. IOM will target thirty villages for public awareness through interactive plays for both male and female audiences; introducing officers from the FIA anti-trafficking unit to local NGOs, community-based organizations, and local government officials. 

USAID SCA South Asia 

Regional 

UNODC Work with regional governments to officially 

endorse the protocols for minimum standards and guidelines on safe migration policy 

DOS/INL SCA Tajikistan IO IOM 

X X X 

The project will strengthen the capacities of the NGO responsible for the shelter and develop a referral mechanism among partners assisting TIP victims. 

76
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/INL SCA Tajikistan IO IOM 

X 

X Enhancing Legislation on Combating TIP 

DOS/INL SCA Tajikistan IO IOM 

X 

Shelter for Assistance to Victims 

USAID SCA Tajikistan IOM 

X X 

Building and improving local and administrative capacity including awareness raising among vulnerable groups, vocational training, crisis center, shelters, and training for government and private sector leaders. 

DOS/INL SCA Uzbekistan IO IOM 

X 

Anti-trafficking Enforcement Unit: The project aims to combat trafficking in persons and protect victims of trafficking, by developing the capacity of law enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges directly dealing with trafficking cases. 

USAID SCA Uzbekistan IOM 

X X 

Building and improving local and administrative capacity including awareness raising among vulnerable groups, vocational training, crisis center, shelters, and training for government and private sector leaders. 

DOS/PRM WHA Argentina IOM 

X X X 

Provide continuing capacity building activities for government and NGOs, as well and the development and dissemination of an information campaign. 

DOS/GTIP WHA Bahamas IOM 

X 

IOM conducted a successful anti-TIP training course in the Bahamas for Caribbean-base law enforcement. The government of the Bahamas supported the training; Suriname officials incurred additional expenses due to a change in flight availability. 

USAID WHA Brazil ILO 

X X X 

Strengthen victim protection by consolidating and disseminating appropriate referral systems and methodologies for victims of CSE; intensify partnerships with local universities. 

77
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

USAID WHA Brazil Partners of the 

Americas 

X X X 

X 

Support the GOB in the replication of a pilot service methodology for children and adolescents victims of TIP and commercial sexual exploitation; develop an effective local and national case notification system to track service provision. 

USAID WHA Brazil IBRAD 

Brazilian Institute for Development Administration 

Research on trafficking in persons and commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in mining areas 

DOS/PRM WHA Caribbean 

Region 

IOM 

X X X 

Targeted interventions at the sub-regional level to raise awareness on TIP issue, including sex tourism; victims' protection, government capacity-building as well as development of a stakeholders' network. 

DOL/ILAB WHA Dominican 

Republic 

International Labor Organization ­International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor 

X X 

The project will provide technical assistance to government agencies to strengthen their capacity to implement the National Plan of Action to Eradicate the Worst Forms of Child Labor and the National Plan of Action to Eradicate Child Abuse and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children; and raise awareness on exploitive child labor through the wide dissemination of informational publications. In collaboration with governmenagencies, the project will also facilitate the collection and monitoring of data on child laborincluding CSEC. In addition, the project will support legislative reforms to make the Minors Code, Criminal Code and the Law on Trafficking in and Smuggling of Persons consistent with international commitments, and will promote the enforcement of these laws. 

78
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/GTIP WHA Dominican 

Republic 

ACILS 

X X X 

Educate Dominicans and Haitians and their families about their families about trafficking as well as local employers and other community members, with the goal of discouraging these populations from accepting false offers of employment institutionalizing the theme of trafficking in persons as a core area of worker representation within trade unions in the hotel, agriculture, construction and trade zone sectors. 

DOS/PRM WHA Dominican 

Republic 

IOM 

X X 

Project will focus on providing protection to returned victims of trafficking, including psychosocial and reintegration assistance. 

USAID WHA Ecuador IOM 

X X X X 

Support for the national anti-trafficking plan including assistance to the government in implementing it, advertising and other support for the trafficking hotline. 

USAID WHA Ecuador TBD 

X 

Shelter pilot program, as required by the TVPRA 2005 (EGAT/WID) 

DOL/ILAB WHA El Salvador International 

Labor Organization ­International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor 

X X 

The project will provide technical assistance to government agencies to strengthen their institutional capacities to address exploitive child labor. To strengthen the country’s capacity to combat CSEC and the trafficking of children for CSE, the project proposes to promote further legislative changes to close loopholes and provide better protection for victims; provide specialized training for key actors in the judicial system (National Police, the Office of the Attorney General, Supreme Court of Justice); and monitor CSEC cases brought before the courts throughout the process. 

79
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/GTIP WHA El Salvador SAVE THE 

CHILDREN 

Facilitate a protective environment that enables the rehabilitation and reintegration of child victims and survivors of human trafficking by increasing government and civil societies’ capacity to protect and seek justice for those victims and survivors. Project activities include publication of training materials in coordination with other NGOs and IOs; bilateral training and educational workshops; victim service protocol development; and formalization of advocacy action plans for municipalities. 

DOS/PRM WHA El Salvador IOM 

X 

Support the Government of El Salvador's Counter-trafficking Committee and IOMimplemented Trafficking shelter through provision of a technical expert to consult on protection matters. 

DOS/PRM WHA Haiti IOM 

X X X 

Provision of shelter, protection, and assistance to child trafficking victims; NGO capacitybuilding. 

USAID WHA Haiti Pan American 

Development Foundation 

X X X 

National and local awareness campaigns, support for organizations that provide shelter, education, vocational training and other servicefor rescued children, training for NGO staff and government officials to combat trafficking, (incremental funding) 

DOS/GTIP WHA Mexico USAID Management 

Systems International & Academy for Educational Development (AED) 

X X 

Funds from G/TIP for USAID to continue to engage civil society and NGOs to promote discussions with the newly sworn-in Federal Congress for the passage of the Anti Trafficking in Persons Law. It also complements an existing effort focused on assisting two Mexican states to adopt similar legislation. USAID will raise awareness about the proposed legislation through a network of civil society NGOs. 

80
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/GTIP WHA Mexico US EMBASSY 

PAS/ Mexican Center for Study and Research in Development and Social Assistance (CEIDAS) 

Ricky Martin Foundation and others TBD 

X 

PAS and CEIDAS will carry out a variety of activities: development and placement of TIP PSAs for TV, radio and newspapers; journalist reporting tours to the borders; voluntary-visitor style professional exchanges; host experts to speak on TIP; and convene a regional conference. 

DOS/PRM WHA Mexico IOM 

X X 

Support training to NGO representatives and government officials on trafficking in persons, with a particular focus on capacity building, victim identification, and reintegration, as a complement to the PRM-funded President's Initiative program in Mexico. 

USAID WHA Mexico AED Management 

Systems International 

X 

USAID identifies shelters that can properly protect victims and provide services that enable them to become strong witnesses for the prosecution. USAID identifies shelters and USG agencies in Mexico collaborate to identify the areas of concentration. 

USAID WHA Mexico Personal 

Services Contracts X X X 

Staff time of three individuals to administer anti-trafficking activities 

USAID WHA Mexico Casals 

X X X 

X 

To engage civil society (including a national network of NGOs) in promoting passage of anti-trafficking legislation and development of shelter programs for victims. 

DOS/GTIP WHA Mexico, CA, SA 

Regional 

Interagency Agreement (IAA) INL - DOJ 

Institute for Intergovernmental Research through the Bureau of Justice Assistance 

Development of a "stand alone" Spanish language Curriculum designed for training all members of a human trafficking task force. The project will improve and expand and then translate into Spanish the existing COPS Train the Trainer Trafficking Curriculum also produced by IIR. Several Spanish legal and trafficking experts will assist. 

81
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOS/PRM WHA Nicaragua IOM 

X 

Pilot return and reintegration program for TIP victims in Nicaragua that will provide return and reintegration, including travel, temporary shelter, medical and psychological services, and education training. 

DOL/ILAB WHA Peru International 

Youth Foundation 

X X 

The targeted sectors include hazardous labor (street vendors, shoe shiners, baggage handlers and porters, and other types of child labor) and children in the worst forms of child labor (drug trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, other unconditional worst forms of child labor). The project will use specialized program knowledge and experience to provide a comprehensive package that includes formal and non-formal education, skills training, prevocational and vocational training, counseling, social support, and shelters for children needing to leave abusive situations. 

DOS/PRM WHA Regional IOM 

X 

Support for regional information campaign, including through documentation of victims’ testimonies, as well as providing a consultant to 

build the capacity of relevant ministries in member governments of the Regional Conference on Migration to better distribute public service announcements inexpensively. 

DOS/PRM WHA Regional IOM 

X 

This project provides return and reintegration for trafficking victims from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, working with relevant government ministries and NGOs, to provide a range of services, including medical, psychological and social assistance, lodging, legal advice and voluntary return to place of origin under secure conditions. 

DOS/PRM WHA United States -­

global returns and transportation of family members 

IOM 

X X 

Support TVPA provisions for eligible family members to be reunited with TIP victims in the US; Return & reintegration for victims in the U.S. who want to return to their country of origin 

82
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA El Cajon, CA Center for 

Social Advocacy 

X X 

Center for Social Advocacy, a civil rights organization, will educate Spanish-speaking and Mizteco immigrant laborers about their human rights and distribute relevant resources. Service providers will also be educated. This project aims to identify victims of trafficking and to prosecute at least 1 trafficker or labor boss. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA US / Detroit, MI Alternatives for 

Girls 

X X 

Alternatives For Girls will conduct outreach to high-risk female teens and young women, including individuals in prostitution and unaccompanied runaway or homeless youth, especially along the Canadian/US border. The organization will also offer basic care and case management referrals to intercepted labor trafficking victims. They will establish or strengthen partnerships with the local law enforcement divisions, social service groups, and community agencies. 

DOJ/BJA USA USA Northern 

Marianas X 

Victim Centered Human Trafficking Task Force 

DOJ/BJA USA USA Shared Hope 

International X X 

Congressional Earmark - to assist selected task forces in assisting child victims of commercial sex trafficking within the U. S. 

DOJ/NIJ USA USA Caliber 

Associates, an ICF International Company 

American Prosecutors Research Institute 

X 

This study will be an examination of the effect of existing legislation on successful prosecution of human trafficking cases. Surveys of federal and state attorneys, interviews with key stakeholders, and analysis of legislation and legal cases inside and outside the U.S. will be used to identify key issues in prosecution and lessons learned. 

83
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/OVC USA USA The Salvation 

Army, Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Division 

X X 

The Salvation Army, Western Territory, Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Division (TSA HI) will develop victim service programs for persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victims of a severe form of trafficking. Comprehensive services will be provided to pre-certified trafficking victims in the State of Hawaii and the Territory of American Samoa. TSA HI will also: build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims over a 36-month period. TSA HI will work collaboratively with the local law enforcement task forces already working in Hawaii and American Samoa. TSA HI will also implement a reimbursement program to provide funds to those providers on the islands of Saipan and Guam who are serving trafficking victims, and support the transportation of those victims if required for their personal safety or to support prosecution efforts. This project is funded through January 2009. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Asian Pacific 

Islander Legal Outreach 

The Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach will provide comprehensive services to pre-certified trafficking victims in the San Francisco bay area; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims. This project is funded through June 30, 2007. 

84
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Bilateral Safety 

Corridor Coalition 

X X 

Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition will provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase the awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims in San Diego County. The project will be supported through June 2007. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Catholic 

Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio 

X X 

Catholic Charities will provide comprehensive services to pre-certified victims of human trafficking identified in Bexar County/ San Antonio, Texas. The grantee will also conduct outreach and public awareness activities regarding the rights and services available to victims of trafficking within the 32 counties impacted by Catholic Charities programs. This project will be supported through July 31, 2009

DOJ/OVC USA USA Civil Society 

X X 

Victim service programs for persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victims of a severe form of trafficking during the pre-certification period. Civil Society will provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims in the state of Minnesota; build effectivcommunity service networks to respond to victims' needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims in Minnesota over a 3-year period. This project is funded through September 30, 2008. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Coalition to 

Abolish Slavery and Trafficking 

X X 

The Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) will provide comprehensive services to pre-certified trafficking victims in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims. This project is funded through June 30, 2007. 

85
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Guma’ 

EsperansaKaridat 

Victim services to persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victimof a severe form of trafficking during the precertification period. Karidat Social Services will provide victim services to persons who have been identified by federal law enforcemenas victims of a severe form of trafficking during the pre-certification period. Karidat Social Services will provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; build effective community service networks to respond to victims' needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims over a three year period. This project is funded through July 31, 2009. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Heartland 

Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights 

X X 

Heartland Alliance will provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims located within the 150 mile radius of Chicago, Illinois, including parts of Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims within the identified geographic area. The grantee will coordinate with BJA funded Anti-Trafficking Task Forces in Chicago and Milwaukee. This project will be supported through 9/30/2008. 

86
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Hope House, 

Inc. 

X X 

Service programs for persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victimof a severe form of trafficking during the precertification period. Hope House, Inc. will expand victim service programs for persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victims of a severe form of trafficking during the pre-certification period. Hope House will provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims in Western Missouri; collaborate with the local law enforcement task force; build effective community service networks to respond to victims' needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims over a three year period. This project ends July 31, 2009. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA City of 

Indianapolis 

The Julian Center 

X X 

The Indianapolis Police Department will contract with the Julian Center to provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims in the city of Indianapolis and throughout Marion County, Indiana; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims over a 36 month period. This project will be supported through 9/30/2008. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA International 

Institute of Boston 

X X 

International Institute of Boston will provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase the awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims in the state of Massachusetts. The project will be supported through June 2007. 

87
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/OVC USA USA International 

Institute of Buffalo 

X X 

The International Institute of Buffalo will expand victim service programs for persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victims of a severe form of trafficking during the pre-certification period. The International Institute of Buffalo will provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims in the Buffalo, NY area; build effective community service networks to respond to victims' needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims over a three year period. This project is funded through July 31, 2009. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA International 

Institute of Connecticut, Inc 

X X 

The International Institute of Connecticut (IIC) will provide comprehensive services to precertified trafficking victims; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase the awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims within the state of Connecticut over a 3-year project period. This project will be supported through 9/30/2008. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA International 

Institute of Metropolitan St. Louis 

X X 

The International Institute of Metropolitan St. Louis will develop a victim service program for persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victims of a severe form of human trafficking. The Institute will provide comprehensive services to victims in the St. Louis area; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims in the St. Louis and surrounding areas over a 36-month period. Thiproject will end 9/30/2008. 

88
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/OVC USA USA International 

Rescue Committee (Arizona) 

X X 

The International Rescue Committee in Arizona, in partnership with Medical Professional Associates of Arizona, the Salvation Army, and contracted immigration attorneys, will provide legal services, comprehensive health and social services, and outreach services to trafficking victims. Other services include public awareness activities, law enforcement education, and training provision to social service providers on topics related to trafficking. The project will be supported through June 2007. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA International 

Rescue Committee (Florida) 

X X 

The Florida Freedom Partnership is a Miamibased partnership comprised of the IRC, the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, the Salvation Army, and Victims Services Center. In collaboration, the above agencies will provide case management, food, shelter, legal, and mental health services to victims in the precertification period. The partners will also conduct outreach and education activities in local communities as well as provide topical training related to trafficking to legal and social service providers in the area. The project will be supported through June 2007. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA International 

Rescue Committee (Washington) 

X X 

International Rescue Committee will provide comprehensive services to pre-certified trafficking victims in Washington State; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims. This project is funded through June 30, 2007. 

89
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Mosaic Family 

Services, Inc. 

X X 

Mosaic Family Services, Inc. will provide comprehensive services to pre-certified trafficking victims in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Tarrant and Collin Counties in Texas; collaborate with the local law enforcement task force in Dallas and Fort Worth; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims. This project is funded through July 31, 2009. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Refugee 

Women’s Network, Inc. 

X X 

Refugee Women's Network will develop, expand, or strengthen victim service programs for persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victims of severe forms of human trafficking of persons during the precertification phase in the state of Georgia. This project will support two law enforcement task forces (Atlanta and Cobb County) through 06/30/2007. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Refugee 

Services of Texas 

X X 

Refugee Services of Texas will provide comprehensive services to pre-certified trafficking victims in the central Texas area; build community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims over an 18-month period. This project will end 6/30/2007. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Safe Horizon 

X X 

Safe Horizon will provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase the awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims in New York City and Nassau County, Long Island. The project will be supported through September 2008. 

90
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Salvation Army 

Western Territory 

X 

The Salvation Army Western Territories will strengthen victim service programs for persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victims of severe forms of human trafficking of persons during the precertification phase in Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. The grantee developed four comprehensive service sites in El Paso, Texas; Denver, Colorado; and Anchorage, Alaska. The Anchorage and Denver sites will be supported through 8/31/2008, while the remaining sites will be supported through November, 2007. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA The Salvation 

Army, Las Vegas 

X X 

The Salvation Army, Las Vegas will strengthen victim service programs for pre-certified victims of trafficking identified in the Las Vegas, Nevada region. The grantee will work to build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs and will provide training to increase the awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of victims in Las Vegas, Nevada. This project will be supported through 7/31/2009. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA Tides Center 

X X X 

The Tides Center/ Utah Health & Human RightProject will expand victim service programs for persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victims of a severe form of trafficking during the pre-certification period. The Tides Center/ Utah Health & Human RightProject will provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims in the state of Utah; build effective community service networks to respond to victims' needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims over a three year period. This project is funded through July 31, 2009. 

91
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/OVC USA USA U.S. 

Conference of Catholic Bishops, Inc. ­Oregon X X 

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will provide comprehensive services to pre-certified trafficking victims in the State of Oregon; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims. This project is funded through June 30, 2007. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA U.S. 

Conference of Catholic Bishops, Inc. ­Mid-Atlantic 

X X 

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will provide comprehensive services to trafficking victims; build effective community service networks to respond to victims’ needs; and provide training to increase the awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The project will be supported through June 2007. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA World Relief 

Corporation 

X 

World Relief will develop, expand, or strengthen victim service programs for persons who have been identified by federal law enforcement as victims of severe forms of human trafficking of persons during the precertification phase. The grantee oversees five comprehensive service sites in High Point, Nashville, Jacksonville, Tampa, and Lee County, FL. The Lee County site is funded through 9/30/2008, while the other sites will discontinue receiving funds 06/30/2007. 

DOJ/OVC USA USA YMCA of the 

Greater Houston Area 

X X 

The YMCA will provide comprehensive services to victims of trafficking in Southeast Texas; build effective community service networks to respond to victim’s needs; and provide training to increase awareness among criminal justice entities, social service providers, and the public regarding the rights and needs of trafficking victims. This project will be supported through 6/30/2007. 

92
FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

HHS/ASPE USA USA Caliber 

Associates, an ICF International Company 

X 

Study of HHS Programs Serving Human Trafficking Victims 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA US Conference 

of Catholic Bishops 

40+ sub-contractors 

X X 

Per-capita services and case management to victims of human trafficking 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA Lockheed 

Martin 

Covenant House 

X X 

National Human Trafficking Resource Center (Hotline) development and management; materials distribution 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA General 

Dynamics 

Polaris Project 

X 

Technical Assistance Contract 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA Ketchum Capitol City 

Partners X 

National Human Trafficking Public Awareness campaign; coalition development 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / 

Birmingham, AL 

Southeastern Network of Youth Services ­Alabama X X 

Southeastern Network of Youth and Family Services will partner other NGOs to expand their outreach services to runaway and homelesyouths vulnerable to trafficking. Contacts will be made to community organization that may come in contact with victims of human trafficking. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Chicago, 

IL 

Salvation Army - Chicago Social Services X X 

The Salvation Army will implement an intervention model based on substance abuse literature to identify victims, engage them in the project, and assist victims to leave trafficking. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Dallas, 

TX 

Mosaic Family Services 

X X 

Mosaic Family Services will utilize a multidisciplinary task force to identify victims 

of trafficking and provide them with services such as case management, referrals to legal services, medical care, immigration assistance, counseling, and employment assistance. 

DOJ/BJA USA USA / Florida Clearwater X Victim Centered Human Trafficking Task Force 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Florida Immigrants 

Rights Advocacy Center 

Subawards pending 

X X 

IRAC will spearhead overall educational and outreach efforts related to human trafficking throughout its region. It will also assess the human trafficking situation in its geographic area and make sub-awards of 60 percent of its contracts to other local organizations to raise awareness about human trafficking and assist in identifying and rescuing victims. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Los 

Angeles, CA 

Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking 

X X 

A coalition of community and ethnic organizations will implement Sex Trafficking Outreach Project to target Russian, Korean and other victims of sex trafficking. The organization will also offer services and comprehensive case management to intercepted labor trafficking victims. Direct outreach will be made to potential victims in venue where their presence is likely. Efforts will be made to raise public awareness of trafficking. 

DOJ/BJA USA USA / Louisiana Louisiana 

Commission on Law Enforcement 

X 

Victim Centered Human Trafficking Task Force 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / 

Milwaukee, WI 

Practical Strategies 

Subawards pending 

X X 

Practical Strategies will spearhead overall educational and outreach efforts related to human trafficking throughout its region. It will also assess the human trafficking situation in its geographic area and make sub-awards of 60 percent of its contracts to other local organizations to raise awareness about human trafficking and assist in identifying and rescuing 

victims. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / 

Minnesota 

Civil Society Subawards pending 

X X 

Civil Society will spearhead overall educational and outreach efforts related to human trafficking throughout its region. It will also assess the human trafficking situation in its geographic area and make sub-awards of 60 percent of its contracts to other local organizations to raise awareness about human trafficking and assist in identifying and rescuing victims. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/BJA USA USA / Missouri Independence X Victim Centered Human Trafficking Task Force HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / 

Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington, Camden, Atlantic, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May counties 

Catholic Charities of Camden, Ocean, and Cape May, NJ 

X X 

Catholic Charities of Diocese of Camden will partner with Rural Opportunities and USCCB/MRS to conduct direct person-toperson outreach and to offer services to migrant farm workers involved in trafficking. Educational outreach will be made through focus groups, informal meetings, and alreadyexisting structures. 

DOJ/BJA USA USA / Nat'l 

Scope 

Congressional Earmark Supporting Development of State Anti-TIP Statutes 

X X 

X X 

Congressional Earmark Supporting Development of State Anti-TIP Statutes 

DOJ/BJA USA USA / Nevada Las Vegas Victim Centered Human Trafficking Task Force DOJ/BJA USA USA / New 

York 

Erie County Sheriff's Department 

Victim Centered Human Trafficking Task Force 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / New 

York, NY 

Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS) 

X X 

Girls Educational and Mentoring Services is the only agency in New York City targeting young women ages 12-21, predominantly of color and from low-income background, who may be involved in or at risk for sexual exploitation and trafficking. GEMS will increase person-toperson outreach at prostitution locations, shelters, group homes, and detention facilities. The organization will also offer services and case management referrals to intercepted labor trafficking victims. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Newark, Polaris Project 

X X 

Polaris Project's New Jersey Victim Outreach Project will coordinate direct outreach efforts with the New Jersey Statewide Human Trafficking Taskforce. The team will target Asian, Eastern European, Latin American, and foreign national women and children in the commercial sex industry, as well as Latin American migrant farmers in low-wage industries. A multi-lingual 24-hour hotline service will also be available for self-reporting. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Orlando, 

FL 

Southeastern Network of Youth Services ­Florida X X 

Southeastern Network of Youth and Family Services will partner other NGOs to expand their outreach services to runaway and homelesyouths vulnerable to trafficking. Contacts will be made to community organization that may come in contact with victims of human trafficking. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Phoenix, 

AZ 

International Rescue Committee 

X X 

International Rescue Committee Phoenix will work with community partners to implement a media outreach campaign, as well as person-toperson outreach activities to victims of forced labor within the Latino Community. The organization will also offer case management referrals to intercepted sex trafficking victims. They will utilize linguistically and culturally appropriate mediums in venues frequently visited by their target population. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Phoenix, 

AZ 

Catholic Social Services of Maricopa County, AZ 

X X 

Catholic Charities Community Services will identify and educate sex trafficking victims, offer them basic supplies, provide interpreter services, case management, and coordinate transportation to safe houses. The organization will also offer case management referral to intercepted labor trafficking victims. Outreach activities will take place in areas where known prostitution and trafficking occur such as truck stops, Home Depots, gas stations, etc. Outreach workers will also participate in police sting operations to identify victims. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / San 

Francisco, CA 

Sage Project 

X X 

Sage will conduct street outreach and offer comprehensive service provision to trafficking victims. They will also spearhead community networking and offer training necessary to create a sustainable, diverse anti-trafficking infrastructure. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Southern 

California 

Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition 

Sub-awards pending 

X X 

BSCC will spearhead overall educational and outreach efforts related to human trafficking throughout its region. It will also assess the human trafficking situation in its geographic area and make sub-awards of 60 percent of its contracts to other local organizations to raise awareness about human trafficking and assist in identifying and rescuing victims. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / 

Springfield, IL 

Positive Options, referrals & Alternatives X X 

Positive Options, Referrals and Alternatives, Inc. will expand its trafficking outreach services to include street and fixed site outreach activities; collaboration with local social services agencies, churches, and businesses; and media outreach through billboards and internet announcements. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / St. Paul, 

MN 

Breaking Free 

X X 

X X X 

The proposed project combines and enhances the current outreach strengths of Breaking Free, an organization that serves prostituted women and girls and battered women, and the legal service expertise of Civil Society, an agency with extensive experience in serving immigrantand refugees. 

DOJ/BJA USA USA / Texas Fort Worth Victim Centered Human Trafficking Task Force DOJ/BJA USA USA / Texas Bexar County Victim Centered Human Trafficking Task Force DOJ/BJA USA USA / Texas Dallas Victim Centered Human Trafficking Task Force HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Tucker, 

GA 

Tapestri 

X X 

Tapestri will facilitate focus groups in Latino, Brazilian, and Korean communities to create "best practices" approaches to anti-trafficking outreach. In addition, educational trainings will be offered to health-care providers, faith-based organization, and other organizations within the three target communities. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Prevention -

Awareness

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/BJA USA USA / Utah Salt Lake City X Victim Centered Human Trafficking Task Force HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA / Weslaco, 

TX 

Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid 

X X 

Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid's anti-trafficking project, End Trafficking Today, will conduct person-to-person outreach to inform potential victims of their rights and available resources. Additional activities will be implemented to educate identified communities about human trafficking. 

HHS/ORR/ACF USA USA/Rochester, 

NY 

Farmworker Legal Services of NY 

X X 

Farm worker Legal Services, in partnership with the Institutional Institute of Buffalo, will concentrate its migrant labor outreach education program on 25 camps notorious for trafficking. The organization will also provide case management and services referrals to intercepted sex trafficking victims. 

DOJ/NIJ USA/EAP USA, Japan, 

Taiwan, Thailand, China, Singapore 

Rutgers University 

X 

This study will be an examination of the underlying reasons, method, characteristics, and groups involved in the illicit movement of women from China to elsewhere in Asia and the U.S. Interviews will be conducted at seven research sites: Hong Kong/Macau, Tokyo, Taipei, Bangkok, Singapore, New York City, and Los Angeles. Approximately 300 interviews will be conducted. 

DOJ/NIJ USA/EUR USA / EUR Philip Reichel 

X 

The goal of this project is to identify how crossnational collaboration experiences in Europe may provide useful knowledge for improving cross-national collaboration efforts between Canada and the U.S. Specifically, the goal is to more clearly understand how European countries are accomplishing cross-national collaboration to combat human trafficking and to use those European experiences to develop suggestions for improving U.S.-Canada antitrafficking Cross-National Collaboration and Human Trafficking. 

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FUNDING (e.g. 

USAID, DOS/GTIP, etc) 

REGION (AF, WHA, EAP, NEA, SCA, EUR) 

COUNTRY RECIPIENT 

SUB-GRANTEE or CONTRACTEE 

Protection - Services

Prosecution - Law Enforcement

Research & Data 

Collection

Prevention -

Awareness BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

DOJ/NIJ USA/EUR USA / Sweden John Picarelli 

X 

The goal of the project is to provide an empirically-grounded assessment of each country’s successes in fighting sex trafficking to make sound recommendations to policymakers and practitioners on where each country’s efforts can realistically inform the others. 

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