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Homeland Security Components

Related Resources

U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report 2010
Attorney General's Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2008 (PDF - 131 pages, 2.81 MB)
The Department of Labor's List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor (PDF - 194 pages, 3.3 MB)
The Department of Labor's 2008 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor under the Trade and Development Act (PDF - 626 pages, 22 MB)
National Institute of Justice Publications

Current National Threat Level is elevated

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Human Trafficking

Report Human Trafficking, 24 Hours

To report suspicious activity to law enforcement:
866-347-2423
To reach a non-governmental organization:
National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline
888-3737-888

Human trafficking is a crime and a human rights abuse involving commercial sexual exploitation of a child or the use of force, coercion or fraud to compel someone into labor servitude or commercial sexual exploitation. Thousands of men, women, and children are trafficked in the United States every year.

Learn more about human trafficking

What You Can Do

Anti-Human Trafficking Resources for:

Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery. Whether you are a victim, a concerned neighbor, a police officer, a teacher, or a business owner, you can help stop human trafficking in your community.

The Daily Human Trafficking and Smuggling Report is a 2-page summary of open-source information about current human trafficking issues. The DHS Open Source Enterprise collects and distributes the report each weekday.
Sign up for the report.

What We're Doing

The Department of Homeland Security is committed to combating the global crime of human trafficking. Through public outreach, victim protection, and law enforcement training, the Department works diligently to prevent human trafficking before it occurs, to protect victims when it has occurred, and to minimize reoccurrence by conducting investigations to bring traffickers to justice.