VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING AND VIOLENCE …

1 PUBLIC LAW 106 386 OCT. 28, 2000 VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING AND VIOLENCEPROTECTION ACT OF 2000 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 02:13 Nov 16, 2000 Jkt 089139 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6579 Sfmt 6579 E:\PUBLAW\ APPS27 PsN: PUBL386114 STAT. 1464 PUBLIC LAW 106 386 OCT. 28, 2000 Public Law 106 386106th CongressAn ActTo combat TRAFFICKING in persons, especially into the sex trade, slavery, and involun-tary servitude, to reauthorize certain Federal programs to prevent VIOLENCE againstwomen, and for other it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ofthe United States of America in Congress assembled,SECTION 1. SHORT Act may be cited as the VICTIMS of TRAFFICKING andViolence Protection Act of 2000 .SEC. 2. ORGANIZATION OF ACT INTO DIVISIONS; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

2 (a) DIVISIONS. This Act is organized into three divisions, asfollows:(1) DIVISION A. TRAFFICKING VICTIMS Protection Act of 2000.(2) DIVISION B. VIOLENCE Against Women Act of 2000.(3) DIVISION C. Miscellaneous Provisions.(b) TABLE OFCONTENTS. The table of contents for this Actis as follows:Sec. 1. Short 2. Organization of Act into divisions; table of A TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT OF 2000 Sec. 101. Short 102. Purposes and 103. 104. Annual Country Reports on Human Rights 105. Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat 106. Prevention of 107. Protection and assistance for VICTIMS of 108. Minimum standards for the elimination of 109. Assistance to foreign countries to meet minimum 110. Actions against governments failing to meet minimum 111. Actions against significant traffickers in 112.

3 Strengthening prosecution and punishment of 113. Authorizations of B VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT OF 2000 Sec. 1001. Short 1002. 1003. Accountability and I STRENGTHENING LAW ENFORCEMENT TO REDUCE VIOLENCEAGAINST WOMENSec. 1101. Full faith and credit enforcement of protection 1102. Role of 1103. Reauthorization of STOP 1104. Reauthorization of grants to encourage arrest 1105. Reauthorization of rural domestic VIOLENCE and child abuse 1106. National stalker and domestic VIOLENCE USC ofTrafficking andViolenceProtection Act 28, 2000[ 3244]VerDate 11-MAY-2000 00:05 Nov 16, 2000 Jkt 089139 PO 00386 Frm 00002 Fmt 6580 Sfmt 6582 E:\PUBLAW\ APPS24 PsN: PUBL386114 STAT. 1465 PUBLIC LAW 106 386 OCT. 28, 2000 Sec. 1107. Amendments to domestic VIOLENCE and stalking 1108.

4 School and campus 1109. Dating II STRENGTHENING SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF VIOLENCESec. 1201. Legal assistance for 1202. Shelter services for battered women and 1203. Transitional housing assistance for VICTIMS of domestic 1204. National domestic VIOLENCE 1205. Federal VICTIMS 1206. Study of State laws regarding insurance discrimination against VICTIMS ofviolence against 1207. Study of workplace effects from VIOLENCE against 1208. Study of unemployment compensation for VICTIMS of VIOLENCE 1209. Enhancing protections for older and disabled women from domesticviolence and sexual III LIMITING THE EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE ON CHILDRENSec. 1301. Safe havens for children pilot 1302. Reauthorization of VICTIMS of child abuse 1303. Report on effects of parental kidnapping laws in domestic VIOLENCE IV STRENGTHENING EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO COMBATVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENSec.

5 1401. Rape prevention and 1402. Education and training to end VIOLENCE against and abuse of women 1403. Community 1404. Development of research agenda identified by the VIOLENCE AgainstWomen Act of 1405. Standards, practice, and training for sexual assault forensic 1406. Education and training for judges and court 1407. Domestic VIOLENCE Task V BATTERED IMMIGRANT WOMENSec. 1501. Short 1502. Findings and 1503. Improved access to immigration protections of the VIOLENCE AgainstWomen Act of 1994 for battered immigrant 1504. Improved access to cancellation of removal and suspension of deportationunder the VIOLENCE Against Women Act of 1505. Offering equal access to immigration protections of the VIOLENCE AgainstWomen Act of 1994 for all qualified battered immigrant 1506.

6 Restoring immigration protections under the VIOLENCE Against Women Actof 1507. Remedying problems with implementation of the immigration provisions ofthe VIOLENCE Against Women Act of 1508. Technical correction to qualified alien definition for battered 1509. Access to Cuban Adjustment Act for battered immigrant spouses 1510. Access to the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act forbattered spouses and 1511. Access to the Haitian Refugee Fairness Act of 1998 for battered spousesand 1512. Access to services and legal representation for battered 1513. Protection for certain crime VICTIMS including VICTIMS of crimes VI MISCELLANEOUSSec. 1601. Notice requirements for sexually violent 1602. Teen suicide prevention 1603. Decade of pain control and C MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONSSec.

7 2001. Aimee s 2002. Payment of anti-terrorism 2003. Aid to VICTIMS of 2004. Twenty-first amendment 11-MAY-2000 00:05 Nov 16, 2000 Jkt 089139 PO 00386 Frm 00003 Fmt 6580 Sfmt 6582 E:\PUBLAW\ APPS24 PsN: PUBL386114 STAT. 1466 PUBLIC LAW 106 386 OCT. 28, 2000 DIVISION A TRAFFICKING VICTIMSPROTECTION ACT OF 2000 SEC. 101. SHORT division may be cited as the TRAFFICKING VICTIMS ProtectionAct of 2000 .SEC. 102. PURPOSES AND FINDINGS.(a) PURPOSES. The purposes of this division are to combattrafficking in persons, a contemporary manifestation of slaverywhose VICTIMS are predominantly women and children, to ensurejust and effective punishment of traffickers, and to protect theirvictims.(b) FINDINGS. Congress finds that:(1) As the 21st century begins, the degrading institutionof slavery continues throughout the world.

8 TRAFFICKING in per-sons is a modern form of slavery, and it is the largest manifesta-tion of slavery today. At least 700,000 persons annually, pri-marily women and children, are trafficked within or acrossinternational borders. Approximately 50,000 women and chil-dren are trafficked into the United States each year.(2) Many of these persons are trafficked into the inter-national sex trade, often by force, fraud, or coercion. The sexindustry has rapidly expanded over the past several involves sexual exploitation of persons, predominantly womenand girls, involving activities related to prostitution, pornog-raphy, sex tourism, and other commercial sexual services. Thelow status of women in many parts of the world has contributedto a burgeoning of the TRAFFICKING industry.

9 (3) TRAFFICKING in persons is not limited to the sex growing transnational crime also includes forced laborand involves significant violations of labor, public health, andhuman rights standards worldwide.(4) Traffickers primarily target women and girls, who aredisproportionately affected by poverty, the lack of access toeducation, chronic unemployment, discrimination, and the lackof economic opportunities in countries of origin. Traffickerslure women and girls into their networks through false promisesof decent working conditions at relatively good pay as nannies,maids, dancers, factory workers, restaurant workers, salesclerks, or models. Traffickers also buy children from poor fami-lies and sell them into prostitution or into various types offorced or bonded labor.

10 (5) Traffickers often transport VICTIMS from their homecommunities to unfamiliar destinations, including foreign coun-tries away from family and friends, religious institutions, andother sources of protection and support, leaving the victimsdefenseless and vulnerable.(6) VICTIMS are often forced through physical VIOLENCE toengage in sex acts or perform slavery-like labor. Such forceincludes rape and other forms of sexual abuse, torture, starva-tion, imprisonment, threats, psychological abuse, and coercion.(7) Traffickers often make representations to their victimsthat physical harm may occur to them or others should thevictim escape or attempt to escape. Such representations can22 USC USC Act 11-MAY-2000 00:05 Nov 16, 2000 Jkt 089139 PO 00386 Frm 00004 Fmt 6580 Sfmt 6581 E:\PUBLAW\ APPS24 PsN: PUBL386114 STAT.