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GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc. The Project to End Human Trafficking | ABOUT US. Our Mission: The Project to End Human Trafficking works toward the prevention and elimination of trafficking in persons through awareness raising, direct service coordination, capacity building and collaboration with key stakeholders. Our Story: The Project to End Human Trafficking (PEHT) is a non-profit organization managed entirely by volunteers. Our main office is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and we have a chapter in Washington D.C. and a sister office in Mokono Uganda. While our primary operations, such as direct services to victims and survivors, are based locally in the Greater Pittsburgh Area, our educational outreach and coalition building efforts stretch to a national and global scale.

As part of the anti-slavery movement, PEHT was founded in 2004 by Dr. In 2003, when Dr. Shortly after PEHT was founded, Dr. Our Scope: The scope of PEHT's efforts and operations are local, regional, national, and international. General Logon Page. GIC Logout. User Identification Form. GIC Logout. General Logon Page. General Logon Page. General Logon Page. Points of View Reference Center Home: HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE UNITED STATES. Points of View Reference Center Home: Point: Human trafficking is a domestic and transnational crime. Governments. Points of View Reference Center Home: Sex Trafficking and HIV/AIDS. “The Government Could Have Stopped This” The Hidden Victims of Human Trafficking. Being forced into domestic servitude is one of the most common forms of human trafficking. Yet it remains one of the most invisible, including meager media coverage and law enforcement efforts.

On June 27, the US State Department released its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, an annual ranking of how well -- or how badly -- countries around the world are doing to fight modern forms of slavery. The report is a sobering litany of horrific abuses, including against domestic workers, and the faltering efforts of many governments to stop these crimes. I have spent several years trying to raise the profile of domestic workers' rights in Asia and the Middle East. A landmark treaty adopted less than two weeks ago may help to change that, however. Many of the worst offenders in this year's TIP report are not a big surprise. All of these countries, despite early opposition from some of them, voted in favor of the new ILO convention on domestic work. Breaking the Silence. Walmart's Human Trafficking Problem. Americans love shrimp, there’s no doubt about it. Per capita consumption in the United States stands at about four pounds a year, the country’s most consumed seafood.

The popularity stems from multiple qualities: its durability when frozen, ease of cooking, and culinary versatility, articulated famously by Bubba in the movie Forrest Gump: “pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp.” Shrimp is also very easy to farm. Although there was a time when most shrimp consumed in the United States was caught by shrimpers working the coast of Louisiana, today most of it comes from aquaculture farms in Asia.

According to the USDA, the leading country of origin is now Thailand, and the United States is Thailand’s largest export market. But the American appetite for shrimp now poses challenges for U.S. companies that import it. But labor organizers on the ground say that problems at the factory ran far deeper. There really is no doubt about the Walmart connection.