US Child Welfare Bill

The Alliance To End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) coalition, supported by Freedom United, won a campaign in the US calling on Senator Barbara Mikulski to co-sponsor the 2014 Child Welfare Bill. Senator Mikulski signed on as a co-sponsor to the child welfare bill on June 20, 2014. The business transparency petition, launched in July 2014, urging Congress to hold a hearing on transparency issues related to human trafficking, obtained over 11,000 signatures and was used as part of ATEST’s 2015 advocacy strategy.