Luis CdeBaca: “The TIP Report is key, key to addressing human rights violations.”

Malaysia's unsubstantiated upgrade is particularly alarming because of its overt importance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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.

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.

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