EEOC Chair Attends Meeting of Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

On March 15, 2012, EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien participated in a meeting at the White House of the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Human Trafficking. The Task Force includes several members of President Barack Obama's cabinet and senior advisors, and is chaired by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The EEOC is a natural partner in the struggle against modern-day slavery, and is working across the country with vulnerable populations to protect one of the most basic of their human and civil rights – the right to equal employment opportunity. The agency is working with partners across federal, state and local levels to enhance the enforcement of laws to protect trafficked workers, and will continue to work to end this unspeakable cruelty.

• Meeting Transcript
  
• White House: Statement by the President on the Meeting of the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
• State Department: Trafficking in Persons Report 2011
• State Department: Obama Administration Accomplishments on Combating Trafficking in Persons as of February 2012
• EEOC: 1/19/11 Commission Meeting on Human Trafficking and Forced Labor
• EEOC: Selected Human Trafficking Cases
• • EEOC Files Its Largest Farm Worker Human Trafficking Suit Against Global Horizons, Farms (4/20/11)
  • EEOC Sues Marine Services Company for Labor Trafficking, Discrimination (4/20/11)
  • EEOC Resolves Slavery and Human Trafficking Suit Against Trans Bay Steel for an Estimated $1 Million (12/8/06)
  • Judge Orders John Pickle Co. to Pay $1.24 Million to 52 Foreign Workers in 'Human Trafficking' Case (5/26/06)