Evaluating U.S. Trafficking Policy

At a recent event marking the 10th anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Open Society Fellow Noy Thrupkaew offered an assessment of the successes and failures of U.S. trafficking policy over that period. She drew on her recent trip to Cambodia, a case study offering both cautionary tales and the possibility of innovative engagement and partnerships between government, civil society actors, and human rights activists.

Thrupkaew’s fellowship project looks at the unintended consequences of the conflation of prostitution and trafficking and the overreliance on the law enforcement practice of “raid and rescue.”

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