Combating Trafficking in Persons

U.S. Department of Defense

Upcoming Conferences

Trafficking in America Conference
• When: May 23-25, 2013
• Where: Nashville, TN
• Sponsored by: Trafficking in America Task Force
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2013 International Stability Operations Association (ISOA) Summit
• When: October 14-16, 2013
• Where: Washington, DC
• Sponsored by: ISOA
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Together Let's Stop Traffick 2013
• When: November 14-17, 2013
• Where: Ottawa, Canada
• Sponsored by: FBI National Academy Associates, Inc. (FBINAA) and the International Police Training Institute (IPTI)
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Past Events / Conference Highlights

Tier Rankings in the Fight Against Human Trafficking
• When: April 18, 2013
• Held by: Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and HumanTestimony of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Transcript and video.

Freedom Network Annual Conference
• When: April 17-18, 2013
• Where: Washington, DC
• Sponsored by: Freedom Network
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Kansas Conference on Slavery and Human Trafficking: Research Needs, Policy Gaps, Institutional Changes
• When: January 31-February 1, 2013
• Where: Lawrence, KS
• Sponsored by: University of Kansas Institute for Policy and Social Research
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Freedom Summit: Building the Bay Area Response to Human Trafficking
• When: January 25-26, 2013
• Where: Fremont, CA
• Sponsored by: Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition
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The Summit 2 End It: Ending Human Trafficking in Colorado
• When: January 7, 2013
• Where: Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
• Sponsored by: The Klein Frank Foundation
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Labor Abuses, Human Trafficking, and Government Contracts: Is the Goverment Doing Enough to Protect Vulnerable Workers?
• When: March 27, 2012
• Where: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
• Held by: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
• Testimony and video.

Annual Meeting of the President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
• When: March 15, 2012
• Where: White House, Washington, D.C.
• Hosted by: Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton.
• Transcript and video.

The Trafficking in Persons Report 2011: Truth, Trends, and Tier Rankings
• When: October 27, 2011
• Held by: Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and HumanTestimony of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Witness: Honorable Luis CdeBaca, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) U.S. Department of State.
• Transcript and video.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act: Renewing the Commitment to Victims of Human Trafficking
• When: September 14, 2011
• Held by: Senate Committee on the Judiciary
• Witness: Honorable Luis CdeBaca, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) U.S. Department of State.
• Transcript and video.

Combatting Trafficking In Persons (CTIP) Workshop
The purpose of the workshop was to provide information regarding: COCOM CTIP initiatives, trafficking in persons (TIP) evaluations-past and future, TIP mobile conversion, TIP and the UCMJ, and CTIP scenario simulation. Additionally the workshop was to provide DoD representatives with tools and information to improve their CTIP program.
• When: August 30-31, 2011
• Hosted by: DHRA and the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Office

Best Practices and Next Steps: A New Decade in the Fight Against Human Trafficking
• When: June 13, 2011, 2:30pm
• Where: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2172
• Held by: Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and HumanTestimony of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Witness: Honorable Luis CdeBaca, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) U.S. Department of State.
• Transcript and video.

Labor Trafficking in Troubled Economic Times: Protecting American Jobs and Migrant Human Rights

• When: May 23, 2011
• Held by: Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission)
• Witness: Honorable Luis CdeBaca, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) U.S. Department of State.
• Transcript and video.

Combating Human Trafficking in Asia

• When: April 7, 2011
• Held by: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Witness: Honorable Luis CdeBaca, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) U.S. Department of State.
• Transcript and video.

Out of the Shadows: Global Human Trafficking• When: September 30, 2010
• Held by: House Foreign Affairs Committee
• Witness: Honorable Luis CdeBaca, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) U.S. Department of State.
• Transcript and video.

Human Trafficking: International and National Implications• When: March 25, 2010
• Held by: Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Witness: Honorable Luis CdeBaca, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) U.S. Department of State.
• Transcript and video.

In Our Own Backyard: Child Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States• When: February 24, 2010
• Held by: Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
• Witness: Honorable Luis CdeBaca, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) U.S. Department of State.
• Transcript and video.

CTIP Conference -- August 2009 [Defense Logistics Agency, Fort Belvoir, VA]

The purpose of the conference was to provide current information on TIP relative to DoD. The goals of the conference was to insure Service, Agency and Command TIP POCs are current on the broad U.S. Government TIP program and have the opportunity to present issues and concerns of their parent organizations; to review and make recommendations on revisions to the DoD TIP instruction and to have the best possible TIP training curriculum by increasing awareness, understanding and appropriate actions necessary to combat TIP within DoD.

Presentations:
• DoD IG Announcement of IG Inspection - Stephen V. Chiusano (.ppt file)
• Keynote Speaker: DOS Ambassador Luis C.de Baca (.ppt file)
• TVPRA, 2008 - Laurence E. Rothenberg (.ppt file)
• PROTECT Act - Alecia Riewerts Wolak (.ppt file)
• DoD OGC Discussion MEJA/UCMJ - Bob Reed (.ppt file)
• Polaris Project Domestic US Focus - Kathleen Davis (.ppt file)
• Crimes against children as it relates to TIP - Russ Strand (.ppt file)
• TIP Task Forces - Duren Banks (.ppt file)
• Actors, Operations and Trends: Trafficking Research for Law Enforcement - John Picarelli (.ppt file)
• DOL Wage and Hour Division - Libby Hendrix (.doc file)
• The International Labor Rights Forum - Brian Campbell (.doc file)
• Football Report - Brian Campbell (.pdf file)
• DHS-Blue Blindfold Campaign - Roy Hall (.pdf file)
• GSA- TIP in the FAR - Ernest Woodson (.ppt file)
• DARC-TIP and the DFAR – Margaret Patterson (.ppt file)

DoD CTIP Conference – July 2008
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Dr. David S. C. Chu held an annual conference, co-sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency, to provide information on combating trafficking in persons July 15 and 16, 2008. Dr. Chu was the keynote speaker. Presentation