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Attorney General Lynch Addresses Interpol General Assembly

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    November 10, 2015
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Excerpt from Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch’s speech to Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization) General Assembly regarding human trafficking:  “This last issue – a crime that is nothing less than modern-day slavery – is one of my highest priorities as Attorney General of the United States and one of our foremost challenges as an international community.  Because human trafficking is a largely hidden crime, it is difficult to precisely estimate how many millions of women, men and children are its victims.  But we do know that it occurs in countries all over the world, including the United States.  It is a crime that can take many forms – from forced physical labor to forced sex to child soldiers – and whose victims range from domestic workers to schoolchildren, to farmworkers, to countless others.  And with its ties to organized crime, its preying on flows of migrants and its complex financing schemes, human trafficking is a truly global problem that demands a truly global response.

Fifteen years ago, a framework for that united effort was created by two documents: the U.N. Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons and the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act, or TVPA.  Together, these instruments acknowledged psychological coercion as a common factor in involuntary servitude; recognized the effectiveness of holistic approaches involving protection, prosecution and prevention; and articulated the need for international collaboration in alleviating this heinous crime.”

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