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One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a low-cost, connected laptop for the world's children's education. Texas Summit on the Trafficking and Exploitation of Children in Houston. TABC is co-sponsoring a Texas Summit on the Trafficking and Exploitation of Children, this time in Houston. TABC's own Sergeant Michael Barnett will be presenting on how TABC collaborates with community partners and enforces the sign posting law in bars. In 2005, Sergeant Barnett worked a case in Houston that resulted in the rescue of about 120 women and girls who had been enslaved, forced into prostitution, and were being physically abused and psychologically tortured. This horrendous activity was taking place in TABC-licensed cantinas in Houston. The purpose of this event is educate the community on the state of the anti-trafficking movement in Houston, and what solutions exist to end this crisis.

Please take a look at the agenda below, and you can register for the summit here. Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PMLocation: United Way of Greater Houston - 50 Waugh Drive - Houston, TX. What is Modern Slavery? “Modern slavery,” “trafficking in persons,” and “human trafficking” have been used as umbrella terms for the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-386), as amended (TVPA), and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Protocol) describe this compelled service using a number of different terms, including involuntary servitude, slavery or practices similar to slavery, debt bondage, and forced labor.

Human trafficking can include, but does not require, movement. Sex Trafficking Child Sex Trafficking Forced Labor Bonded Labor or Debt Bondage One form of coercion is the use of a bond or debt. Domestic Servitude Forced Child Labor. Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery. Migration, Sexual Exploitation, and Women's Health — Violence Against Women.