The Washington, DC Human Trafficking Task Force is the official partner for the Washington Nationals vs. Philadelphia Phillies baseball game. They'll be showing up at the stadium in the hundreds, brandishing "Stop Human Trafficking T-shirts." Get the T-shirts, go to the game, and show your support en mass!

In a recent study, Shared Hope International found that child sex slaves in the U.S. are "victimized twice—first by the prostitution and then by the broken system that treats them like criminals."

Eskinder Nagesh is named the new director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.

CAST contributes to the pamphlet, to be distributed to applicants of certain temporary working visas to the U.S. Pamphlet will inform potential victims of trafficking of their legal rights, warning signs of trafficking, and how to get help.

Wealthy Washington, D.C.-area households used the services of domestic servants who were victims of trafficking. Prosecutors say employers "knew or were willfully blind" to victims of modern-day slavery.

Anti-Human Trafficking Bill, authored by San Francisco Senator Leland Yee has been approved by California's Assembly Public Safety Committee.

M&M/Mars and Cadbury have taken steps to end abusive child labor practices in the cocoa industry. Demand that Hershey do the same!

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says anti-human trafficking organizations should work in partnership with each other.

The Attorney Generals' annual report includes information on CAST.

Hillary Clinton presented  the 9th annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which highlights the U.S.'s culpability in modern day slavery, and indicates that the recession has fueled global demand for trafficked labor.

ACLU sues to stop Catholic bishops from restricting trafficking victims’ access to birth control and abortion

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - Human trafficking is modern day slavery, and it's happening right here in San Antonio.

HOUSTON — Like dozens of other workers from Vietnam and China, Tiep Ngo had been lured to the Daewoosa clothing factory in American Samoa by hollow promises of good pay. She left behind her child, her husband and her parents and paid $5,000 for her job contract only to be starved, beaten and cheated of wages.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Luis C. de Baca as Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the State Department.

The girls next door never rest. They work day and night and weekends taking care of the old people, and they never, ever leave the eldercare home on Vernon Street, hidden in plain sight inside an ordinary suburban tract house in Long Beach with light-tan stucco, white trim, burgundy awnings, a two-car garage and an American flag waving in the front entryway.

The beating was the final straw. The relentless daily psychological abuse had been bad enough; the endless days of work stretching into weeks and finally into months had been exhausting beyond endurance. Somehow she managed to get through.

OAXACA, México.— Adivinar si es barro o excremento lo que pisa Carolina* resulta difícil.