Department of State Source

The Department of State is required by law to

submit a Report each year to the U.S. Congress

on foreign governments’ efforts to eliminate

severe forms of trafficking in persons. This Report

is the seventh annual TIP Report. It is intended

to raise global awareness, to highlight efforts of

the international community, and to encourage

foreign governments to take effective actions to

counter all forms of trafficking in persons.

The U.S. law that guides anti-human trafficking

efforts, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of

2000, as amended (TVPA), states that the purpose

of combating human trafficking is to punish

traffickers, to protect victims, and to prevent

trafficking from occurring. Freeing those trapped

in slave-like conditions is the ultimate goal of this

Report—and of the U.S. government’s anti-human

trafficking policy.

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/82902.pdf