There also has to be muscular deterrence, going after criminals and gangs who so exploit these children.
We have taken strong leadership with our military to make it clear that they cannot at all participate in those types of...
The fact that we have not seen the type of progress in Malaysia is of great concern to me.
Congress should encourage the U.S. Trade Representative to suspend GSP and other trade preferences for any country that ...
It took a major effort to be able to turn that around.
It is disturbing to see, in the jurisdiction of this subcommittee, East Asia and the Pacific, that, with all the priorit...
I do not think people really understand that there are people being trafficked and sold to a boat for 9 years for fishin...
I want to touch on the two areas that we need to have a better public understanding of what is going on.
There are absolutely products being made with forced labor that are in our grocery stores, in our retail stores.
We need to regulate labor recruiters around the world.
We believe strongly that labor standards in the TPP and other trade agreements should include the same enforcement and d...
I think they are beginning to move--a little bit slowly, but moving.
I believe we can elevate that through a strong labor provision within the TPP, but it has got to be enforceable.
the TPP needs to have enforceable labor commitments, because we have not been able to make the progress by just putting ...
What does that mean, as far as they are ready for TPP? Are they ready for TPP, if they cannot deal with their traffickin...
We absolutely believe that the TIP evaluations are honest reporting and honest grading.
We expect greater progress.
I am proud of the role that the U.S. Helsinki Commission has played.
