Executive Order

Executive Order 13257: President’s Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Federal Register Vol. 67, no. 33 (19 February 2002): 7259-7260. http://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=456930 (accessed 27 September 2011).

This executive order mandates the creation of the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons to “combat trafficking in persons, a contemporary manifestation of slavery whose victims are predominantly women and children, to ensure just and effective punishment of traffickers, and to protect their victims.”