Congress needs to fund programs combatting human trafficking
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:59 pm
Tell Congress to Fund Crucial Programs to Combat Human Trafficking
About this Petition:
We applaud you for your leadership and work to help end slave labor and involuntary servitude and appreciate your efforts to pass legislation to curtail these practices and provide resources to the federal agencies that are engaged in this issue. As you are aware an estimated 27 million people are enslaved today with 17,500 individuals trafficked into the United States each year.
The Desired Outcome of this Petition:
Funding to combat trafficking that has been authorized through the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) for fiscal year 2011
Signatures 3103 – 3116
To: Honorable Representative Obey and Honorable Senator Harkin
We petition that…
As a concerned citizen we are writing to seek your support to help fund several programs within the Department of Labor and Department of Health and Human Services authorized for Fiscal Year 2011 through the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). Specifically we urge you to provide:
· $7 million for the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking within the Department of Labor to implement relevant sections of the TVPRA;
· $11.8 million for the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to identify and serve foreign trafficking victims;
· $4 million to ORR to provide shelters for minor victims of sex trafficking; and
· $6 million to ORR provide grants for communities around the country providing services for US citizens and legal permanent resident victims of trafficking.
We thank you for your leadership and please do continue to support needed programs that help combat human trafficking.
GO TO: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/petitions/403
to sign the petition.
Petition Sponsor:
Not For Sale Campaign wrote and will deliver this petition.
Petition Due Date:
March 27, 2010
4 days left
About this Petition:
We applaud you for your leadership and work to help end slave labor and involuntary servitude and appreciate your efforts to pass legislation to curtail these practices and provide resources to the federal agencies that are engaged in this issue. As you are aware an estimated 27 million people are enslaved today with 17,500 individuals trafficked into the United States each year.
The Desired Outcome of this Petition:
Funding to combat trafficking that has been authorized through the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) for fiscal year 2011
Signatures 3103 – 3116
To: Honorable Representative Obey and Honorable Senator Harkin
We petition that…
As a concerned citizen we are writing to seek your support to help fund several programs within the Department of Labor and Department of Health and Human Services authorized for Fiscal Year 2011 through the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). Specifically we urge you to provide:
· $7 million for the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking within the Department of Labor to implement relevant sections of the TVPRA;
· $11.8 million for the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to identify and serve foreign trafficking victims;
· $4 million to ORR to provide shelters for minor victims of sex trafficking; and
· $6 million to ORR provide grants for communities around the country providing services for US citizens and legal permanent resident victims of trafficking.
We thank you for your leadership and please do continue to support needed programs that help combat human trafficking.
GO TO: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/petitions/403
to sign the petition.
Petition Sponsor:
Not For Sale Campaign wrote and will deliver this petition.
Petition Due Date:
March 27, 2010
4 days left