Grants will fund services for victims, those at risk, governments
The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded $18.65 million in grants to combat human trafficking around the world, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao announced.
The amount includes $3.75 million to implement anti-trafficking projects in Brazil, Cambodia, Moldova and Sierra Leone, and $14.9 million to fight child-labor trafficking in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, according to an October 20 Labor Department press release.
United States will prosecute sex crimes committed abroad
By M. Charlene Porter Washington File Staff Writer
Washington -- On the back streets of major cities in East Asia and Central America, children are for sale -- for an hour, for a night, or maybe for a week. Rich men from abroad are paying for the sexual services of these innocents, and a new campaign to stop them began October 12.
Posters bearing a photo of faceless hands behind jail bars are going up at key entrance points for foreign visitors to Costa Rica, Thailand and Cambodia. The message says: "Abuse a child in this country. Go to jail in yours." Two U.S. government agencies, the governments of these three countries and the nongovernmental organization World Vision are teaming up to target the sexual exploitation of children and ensure that U.S. citizens committing such crimes are brought back to this country for prosecution.
State Department's Ryan addresses OSCE Human Dimension Meeting
The United States is deeply committed to combating trafficking in persons and to protecting its victims both in the United States and abroad, according to a member of the U.S. delegation to the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, Poland.
In an October 8 address, J. Kelly Ryan, the State Department's deputy assistant secretary for population, refugees and migration, said President Bush in 2003 pledged $50 million in additional funding to support organizations that rescue men, women and children from bondage and give them shelter and medical treatment.
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