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

 

post

page

attachment

revision

nav_menu_item

custom_css

customize_changeset

oembed_cache

user_request

wp_block

wp_template

wp_template_part

wp_global_styles

wp_navigation

wp_font_family

wp_font_face

acf-taxonomy

acf-post-type

acf-field-group

acf-field

ai1ec_event

exactmetrics_note

Responses to the Global Trade in Illicit Organs
VideosWebinarsEvents

When: June 17, 2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Transplant lists grow longer year on year, and the percentage of successful matches made is in the single digits in most countries. While the purchase of organs is illegal almost everywhere in the world, organs are still procured through the growing...

Illegal Logging, Environmental Crime, and Human Trafficking
VideosWebinarsEvents

When: February 22, 2018 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

The environmental crime of illegal logging creates a layered web of exploitation. Natural resources, protected lands, and threatened species of plants and trees are exploited as well as trafficked labour. Criminal networks often force indigenous populations into slavery and other...

TAGS: Global
Inside San Diego’s $810m human trafficking industry
Videos

Considered among the best cities to work and live in the US, San Diego also ranks in the FBI’s 13 highest-intensity trafficking areas in the country. Sex trafficking generates $810m in annual revenue for local pimps and gangs, making it the county...Read More

New technologies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Tackling Human Trafficking
VideosWebinarsEvents

When: January 1, 2017 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

This introduction webinar for the RESPECT Webinar Series 2017 New technologies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Tackling Human Trafficking was held on 8th December 2016. How are new technologies and innovations impacting human trafficking? How can new technologies and innovation address and combat human...