Here is a look at what is coming up tonight on cspan. First a discussion about efforts to combat Human Trafficking and ys to help victims. Then senator merkley talks aut climate change, following one of the hottest months on record. And later, President Bidens economic agenda and Public Opinion on his efforts. Cspan is your unfiltered view of government funded by these Television Companies and more including cox. This syndrome is extremely rare. Hi. Prince dont have to be. This is joe. When you are connected, you are not alone. Cox support cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Coming up, the u. S. Chamber of commerce hosting a discussion on implement measures to combat Human Trafficking. Human rights advocates discuss support for victims and how to spot and the role of business and government in stopping it. [indiscernible voices] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [indiscernible voices] good morning, everybody. Lets take our seats and get started. I am stephan the cochair of the human rights and Business Practices group, and chair of the u. S. Chamber of Commerce Task force to eradicate Human Trafficking. I would like to welcome you all to todays event, the role of Public Private partnerships to combat Human Trafficking. When i mentioned the term Human Trafficking, what am i talking about . The keywords are that trafficking involves the elements of force, fraud, coercion, forced later, or commercial sexual exploitation. Human trafficking is a global problem affecting millions of people each year who are illegally lured into forced labor and sexual expectation through force, fraud, or coercion. The u. S. To permit of Homeland Security says it is only second to Drug Trafficking is the most profitable form of transnational crime generating billions of dollars a year in illicit profits, and all victims of trafficking share one essential experience, the loss of freedom. We know that Human Trafficking is a sensitive topic that dwells on the worst behaviors of mankind. In an interconnected world Human Trafficking is a global problem that touches Many Industries and business relationships. The private sector is empowered to lead the fight against this heinous problem based on Financial Resources and civic leadership. Businesses cannot do this work alone. They need to partner with governments and nongovernmental organizations. Employers are leading efforts to raise education and awareness to fight Human Trafficking in conjunction with governments and nongovernmental organizations. That is why the u. S. Chamber of commerce established a task force to eradicate Human Trafficking a number of years ago. This task force is an Advisory Group consisting of members who work with the federal government and the private sector to develop Commonsense Solutions and speak with one voice. The chamber[tas force develops toolkits t chambers taskforces about toolkits and meets with members to advocate and also offers companies a platform for educating the public about their initiatives to support trafficking victims. As we hear today from experts, i would be remiss to mentioned that around the globe the Business Community is facing a plethora of laws that intent to mandate supplychain reporting requirements, complying with a multitude of these types of laws are impractical, as there may be a need for global standard, and companies are acting voluntarily to be part of that solution. The days form is part of the chambers education and Awareness Campaign to highlight the accomplishments of the business sector. This event is held in advance but honoring the spirit of the world day against trafficking of persons which falls every year on july 30. Even trafficking is too big of a societal problem for one industry dissolve on its own, therefore the keyword is partnership. The u. S. State department estimates that 27 point 6 Million People worldwide are victims of Human Trafficking. To have an effective strategy, the u. S. Chamber of commerce recognizes the Important Role that each of these entities plays in preventing this evil scourge. That is why we are here today to solve this problem once and for all, to have an effective strategy, the u. S. Chamber recognizes the Important Role that each of these entities play in this work. Human trafficking is a complex problem and requires complex solutions at all stages. A holistic approach is necessary when addressing Human Trafficking. We are here today to make in part to make bold change in how we Work Together across the public and private sectors to stop traffickers as a coordinated effort is needed for a response of this magnitude. Sharing best practices in carrying these best practices into the Global Community inspires others and serves as a basis for broader collaboration among Intergovernmental Organization coordination efforts. We know from expense that was educational institutions Law Enforcement, business, governments and nongovernmental organizations collectively join forces, there is an opportunity to solve this problem with upstream and downstream solutions. Upstream measures focus on prevention by aiming to prevent trafficking before it occurs and by addressing underlying risks, while downstream interventions emphasize the importance of remedying the harm, if it does occur, when it does occur. When combined with the downstream interventions like victim Identification ServiceProvisions Health care, Behavioral Health treatment in criminal investigations and the like of these efforts combined to increase the number of individuals who are expensing trafficking. In a moment i will call to the stage Glenn Spencer the Senior Vice President of the Employment Policy division would discuss the publication of the task force that it has produced and make an announcement about two publications being released today. Before i do that, i would like to acknowledge our sponsors, counterforce labor technologies, the American Hotel and lodging association with the American Hotel and lodging Association Foundation, and the National Coalition for the prevention of Human Trafficking and sex trafficking. Thank you very much for your support. Glenn . [applause] glenn thank you, stephan, for those opening remarks, and thank all of you for coming down to the chamber on a hot monday morning. In this postcovid era, it is unusual to see so many people in the building, mondaybut thanks for being her monday, but thanks for being here. Amongst my many responsibilities , i have oversight of this task force. Michael bell it who will come up to the stage in a moment manages that for us so we are grateful for his work. As you heard from stephan, the task force is an Advisory Group and members who work with the federal government and private sector to develop Common Sense Solutions and to speak with one voice. The objectives of this task force are threefold. One, increase prevention. We want to raise awareness. We want to enable empowerment. Part of doing all three of those is the advocacy work we do around this issue with congress. Today i want to highlight a couple of recent publications in all our publications are available on a website. You each have a bag in a chair that has more publications in their so please take a look at those. First i want to announce the date is the update to the u. S. Chamber publication antiHuman Trafficking laws which we published last summer. This is essentially a 101 on the various laws, treaties, and conventions out there that deal with Human Trafficking. This particular update discusses canadas s 211 which includes modern slavery reporting requirements, the child labor import ban in the eu proposal regarding forced labor, and domestic laws signed by President Biden in the 117 congress. Although she will find in that update. The next publication is the counterforce labors Technology Solutions publication. They are our partner in todays event and are a great partner overall and there is a new publication known as counter journal volume seven issue to which you will find in your bag. And that publication but you will find is descriptions of the mission of our task force here and an overview of dhss campaign in a number of Interesting Articles including i would know two articles about the work of the first ladies who will be joining us today. Again, we are very grateful for their participation in todays events. Later this morning you will hear a prerecorded announcement about an exciting new toolkit the u. S. Chamber is coproducing with a 21 and the National Beer wholesalers association. This document will provide additional education on forced labor indicators in the business environment. That toolkit will be released just a bit later this summer, or maybe early fall. Uh, also you will hear about an upcoming joint publication from Ashley Chapman of the alliance for freedom restoration and justice. That joint publication from both organizations will highlight the work of business in helping to end Human Trafficking in the Atlanta Metro region. Now, as they say come on with the show, so i want to call up to the stage michael bell it who runs the task force for us. I want to thank our sponsors for being here today and working with us on this event, the counterforce labor technologies of the American Hotel lobbying association and the American Hotel lobbying Association Foundation in the National Coalition for the prevention of human sex trafficking. So again, thank you to all her sponsors for working with us on this event. With that, michael, come on up and i will let you run the show from here. Michael glenn, stephan, thank you for your marks and ongoing support of the activities and efforts of the task force. Good morning for those on the livestream. I am michael bell it, director of research here at the u. S. Chamber. As part of my core responsibility site manage the daytoday operations of the task force. Before i go into a brief overview of todays agenda i want to highlight a few key findings from our report. Human trafficking is an underreported crime for various reasons. Some reasons are they are unaware they are being trafficked but they dont think of themselves as being traffic. They are afraid to talk about enforcement due to the control the trafficker has over them or hesitant to accept help from the authorities because they fear they will get into criminal trouble, so as we discussed the prepayments of trafficking which is a term sort of used in this field, all of us in this room and watching on my note that interventions are needed to prevent those that are at risk of being trapped again to help those who have not been traffic. What you will hear is a critical first step to address this problem. We need to break free of this cycle and arrive at strategic innovative and Effective Solutions to complex problems but we also have to learn here to engage in constructive discourse and go beyond the problem at hand and consider the system that allowed this problem to exist before we can develop a solution that will truly address the source and during the event we will try to address the following two questions. How do we create Affordable Housing solutions and trauma informed work and permits to break the cycle of victimization, and also how do we equip business to protect itself against being used by traffickers. As you heard from stephan and glenn, a conference approach to trafficking is going to have to unite communities and organizations and businesses and legislators to produce pursue solutions that address the full solution and we have to think about this is a function like the spokes of the wheel and each spoke is a resource and information to operate effectively and its work helps to move the wheel towards his destination and when Law Enforcement is using the victimcentered approach we see higher rates of prosecution of traffickers and we see a continuum of care which support survivors exiting a trafficking situation and reintegrating into society and decrease revictimization rates and see more healing and as policymakers in the chamber especially effective as a longstanding employee of doing advocacy work as we passed legislation that creates sustainable solutions, we will be able to build the infrastructure to eradicate trafficking in the u. S. Problems are not also been the same level in which they are created in this alone cannot be the responsibility of one person or one organization or one policymaker. We all have to get together on this topic and we know that injustice on the scale requires a collective movement of people so that what we kind of give permission to tolerate we give permission to existent this is totally unacceptable in every way shape and form and we know that the Business Community and collaboration with government, ngos, nonprofits and our rising up to this challenge but we have even more work to do so you know i challenge everybody in this, to think about Effective Solutions. I was reminded you know recently that we really need to have more compassion for other people in this part of the know the chambers efforts but this is just overall good work and having compassion for other people and learning and caring about how they are different from each other and how we can relate to them so today you will hear from many representatives and i have a list and i dont think i will go through them. I think i have close to 30 speakers less time i checked them and so we have many people from both Law Enforcement, the first ladies who will be joining us from work, a democratic governor said this is a bipartisan issue. I am fortunate that when i reached out here he said we are integrated now and in the center for Human Trafficking and i thought great we will get the director over and so we got the director over so this is great. So no there is speaker bios. For the people online, there is at the righthand side of the screen and you know this program really cant be possible without our sponsors, both at breakfast and the launch overall in terms of the agenda so again i want to thank the counterforce labor technologies, American Hotel and lodging association and the foundation on the National Coalition for the prevention of human sex trafficking into Getting Started im going to call onto the stage the Vice President of awareness and prevention programs at the American Hotel lodging association and you will hear of another person at Survivor Alliance, so as they say, we will get this program started. So i will be the host. Thank you. [applause] good morning, everyone. It is nice to be with you here all this morning first thing. You have heard my organizations name four or five times already this morning, but by and with the hla foundation and excited to be here in sponsoring this event because between those we represent the combination of the private industry sector, the hotel and lodging industry, as well as our Charitable Giving arm that works in the nonprofit space and social impact. So i am excited to be here this morning, particularly with my colleagues here on the stage because in our industry we have had a longstanding commitment to Human Trafficking prevention and it has been a combination of training our industry employs, a commitment to train every singe