Luis CdeBaca

The TIP Report is key, key to addressing human rights violations.

These recent media reports indicate that political appointees meddled in the compilation of this publication.

The most productive solution is for Congress to insist in its oversight role, and the Senate in focusing on appointments, that the Ambassador's position is filled and it is filled with someone with strong experience, vision and…

We have found a strategy that works. Now is the time to build on successes, however, for the sake of the 21 million people--Free the Slaves puts that number at 27 million people--who are captives of modern-day slavery.

China undeservedly received an upgrade from Tier 3, an egregious violator of human trafficking, to Tier 2 Watch List, despite their atrocious record on trafficking.

This bill will give the State Department's trafficking team the leverage necessary to allow it to advocate most effectively on behalf of the victims of trafficking.

the U.S. rejects modern slavery and that responding to this crime wherever it exists is a priority for our country.

Eleven years ago this afternoon in fact, on a similarly rainy day in October, President Clinton recorded his radio address to be broadcast on the morning of October 28, 2000, the day that he signed that groundbreaking legislation into law…

I would like to take a step back, if I may, to recognize what you and your cosponsors of the original Trafficking Victims Protection Act achieved in bringing that initial skepticism that you perhaps mentioned to consensus.