Washington D.C., Jun 12, 2013 / 16:04 pm
A U.S. congressman urged the international community to train transportation employees to identify and fight human trafficking situations, as well as to establish a hotline for trafficking victims.
"Combatting modern-day slavery is everybody's business. We are all in this together," said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) on June 10.
"Cooperation and coordination are key to mitigating – and someday ending – the cruelty of human trafficking," he stated. "Best practices need to be shared and implemented to the widest extent possible."
Smith delivered an address at an international conference on trafficking, held in Kiev, Ukraine, by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.