This hearing was called by the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S. House of Representatives and focused on illicit financial flows and the key role of the banking industry in combating human trafficking.
This hearing examines how financial institution’s monitor, review, and verify depository relations with a payment processor. In particular, the Subcommittee seeks to better understand potential problems and long-term challenges that exist, including examples of how human traffickers avoid detection.
Witness List
Over the past ten years, academics, policy makers and civil society have increasingly called for a better understanding of the role of technology in preventing or facilitating human trafficking. Attention has focused on a range of issues from adult services...
Report launch: Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:00-17:30 ICT (Cambodia/Vietnam) | 11:00-12:30 CEST (Austria) | 10:00-11:30 BST (UK) The number of women travelling from Cambodia to China for forced or arranged marriages has surged since 2016 and experienced a further spike...
Social auditing can be improved with a deeper focus on the issues of human trafficking for forced labour and the unique circumstances facing migrant workers. Social auditors and certifiers can help eliminate human trafficking for forced labour by developing and...
In illegal mining, there is a high incidence of human trafficking for forced labour, including a system in which debt bondage is achieved by providing workers with advances or start-up capital. Workers in the mining sector are employed under extremely...
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