MONITORING AND COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: …

1 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICEWASHINGTON : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing OfficeInternet: : toll free (866) 512 1800; DC area (202) 512 1800 Fax: (202) 512 2250 Mail: Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402 000180 844 PDF2002S. HRG. 107 576 MONITORING AND COMBATING TRAFFICKING INPERSONS: HOW ARE WE DOING?HEARINGBEFORE THESUBCOMMITTEE ON NEAR EASTERNAND SOUTH ASIAN AFFAIRSOF THECOMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONSUNITED STATES SENATEONE HUNDRED SEVENTH CONGRESSSECOND SESSIONMARCH 7, 2002 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations(Available via the World Wide Web: 11-MAY-2000 16:35 Jul 26, 2002 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 80844 SFRELA1 PsN: SFRELA1 COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONSJOSEPH R.)

2 BIDEN, JR., Delaware, ChairmanPAUL S. SARBANES, MarylandCHRISTOPHER J. DODD, ConnecticutJOHN F. KERRY, MassachusettsRUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, WisconsinPAUL D. WELLSTONE, MinnesotaBARBARA BOXER, CaliforniaROBERT G. TORRICELLI, New JerseyBILL NELSON, FloridaJOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West VirginiaJESSE HELMS, North CarolinaRICHARD G. LUGAR, IndianaCHUCK HAGEL, NebraskaGORDON H. SMITH, OregonBILL FRIST, TennesseeLINCOLN D. CHAFEE, Rhode IslandGEORGE ALLEN, VirginiaSAM BROWNBACK, KansasMICHAEL B. ENZI, WyomingEDWINK. HALL, Staff DirectorPATRICIAA. MCNERNEY, Republican Staff DirectorSUBCOMMITTEE ON NEAR EASTERNAND SOUTH ASIAN AFFAIRSPAUL D.

3 WELLSTONE, Minnesota, ChairmanROBERT G. TORRICELLI, New JerseyBARBARA BOXER, CaliforniaPAUL S. SARBANES, MarylandJOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West VirginiaSAM BROWNBACK, KansasGORDON H. SMITH, OregonBILL FRIST, TennesseeGEORGE ALLEN, Virginia(II)VerDate 11-MAY-2000 16:35 Jul 26, 2002 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 80844 SFRELA1 PsN: SFRELA1 CONTENTSPageCho, Hae Jung, project director, Coalition to Abolish Slavery & TRAFFICKING (CAST), Los Angeles, CA ..46 Prepared statement ..48 Dinh, Viet D., Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, Departmentof Justice, Washington, DC.

4 10 Prepared statement ..12 Responses to additional questions for the record from Senator Wellstone ..62 Dobriansky, Hon. Paula, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, Depart-ment of State, Washington, DC ..5 Prepared statement ..7 Responses to additional questions for the record from Senator Wellstone ..58 Ely-Raphel, Amb. Nancy H., Senior Advisor, Office to Monitor and CombatTrafficking in persons , Department of State, Washington, DC ..23 Prepared statement ..24 Responses to additional questions for the record from Senator Wellstone ..65 Equality Now, New York, NY, statement submitted for the record ..57 Hanh, Nguyen Van, , Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Depart-ment of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

5 26 Prepared statement ..28 Responses to additional questions for the record from Senator Wellstone ..66 Jordan, Ann, director, Initiative Against TRAFFICKING in persons , InternationalHuman Rights Law Group, Washington, DC ..42 Prepared statement ..44 Loar, Theresa, president, Vital Voices Global Partnership, statement sub-mitted for the record ..53 Scalia, Eugene, Solicitor of Labor, Department of Labor, Washington,DC, statement submitted for the record ..54 Smolenski, Carol, coordinator, End Child Prostitution and TRAFFICKING (ECPAT-USA), New York, NY ..36 Prepared statement ..39 Wellstone, Hon. Paul D., Senator from Minnesota, prepared statement.

6 3(III)VerDate 11-MAY-2000 16:35 Jul 26, 2002 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 80844 SFRELA1 PsN: SFRELA1 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 16:35 Jul 26, 2002 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 80844 SFRELA1 PsN: SFRELA1(1) MONITORING AND COMBATING TRAFFICKINGIN persons : HOW ARE WE DOING?THURSDAY, MARCH 7, SENATE,SUBCOMMITTEE ONNEAREASTERNANDSOUTHASIANAFFAIRS,COMMIT TEE ONFOREIGNRELATIONS,Washington, subcommittee met at 3 , in room SD 419, Dirksen Sen-ate Office Building, Hon. Paul Wellstone (chairman of the sub-committee), : Senators Wellstone and WELLSTONE. The hearing before the Senate Sub-committee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs will come want to apologize to all of you who are here, panelists andthose who are intensely interested in the hearing and the issue be-fore us.

7 We had some votes and it was unavoidable, otherwise Iwould not have kept you waiting. I am sure that SenatorBrownback is probably on his way over here as well, and we willtry to move things forward expeditiously. Senator Brownback ishere right what I want to try to do is myself be relatively briefand then hopefully Senator Brownback as well, and we will askeach of you to try to stay within a 5-minute limit. Then we willhave questions. Probably some of the questions we will submit inwriting as well because we have a number of people who are hereto , I was apologizing for the delay, explaining the votes thatwe year ago, the Congress enacted landmark human rights legis-lation to put an end to TRAFFICKING in human beings.

8 This was theTrafficking Victims Protection Act, and it provided a comprehen-sive plan of attack on TRAFFICKING from various agencies of the Fed-eral Government and the advocacy community as well. There wereprevention programs. I guess we called it the three P s. There wasthe protection of TRAFFICKING victims, and then there was the pros-ecution of the would like to again, for probably the 100th time, thank SenatorBrownback for his wonderful leadership in this area. It has beena joyous journey for me to be working with s hearing is actually to assess our efforts against humantrafficking one year after the passage of the 11-MAY-2000 16:35 Jul 26, 2002 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 80844 SFRELA1 PsN: SFRELA12We have asked the witnesses to discuss the extent to which var-ious agencies of the Government have discharged the respon-sibilities imposed upon them by the act.

9 We need to know whetherwe have effectively used the tools provided by the act, and we needto know whether new tools might be necessary. A law without vig-orous and effective implementation and oversight, at least in myview, is worse than no law at all because it lulls us into the falsesense that we have done something to solve the problem. We arehere today to learn whether or not we are doing all that we canto end this TRAFFICKING in persons , and we are here today to learnhow committed the administration is to truly solving this growingproblem of modern day think the administration has done some very important State Department released its first TRAFFICKING in persons re-port in July of last year.

10 The Office to Monitor and Combat Traf-ficking in persons was established later that October. We are nowin the administrative comment period for the regulations imple-menting the TRAFFICKING T-visa at the Department of Justice, andthe first meeting of the Interagency Task Force on TRAFFICKING washeld last month. But I think much more remains to be will finish with concerns. I wanted to start with the positivesbecause I think you should always give credit to people when theyare doing good am concerned that many victims of TRAFFICKING are not gettingthe assistance they need because the programs may not be de-signed appropriately or interagency coordination is lacking.