Luis CdeBaca

Ambassador at Large, senior advisor to the Secretary of State and director of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Luis CdeBaca, and the president of Slavery Footprint, Justin Dillon, talk about forced labor and measuring a person's slavery "footprint."

A new report by the State Department says 27 million people are victims of human trafficking worldwide. Though the report names Libya, Iran, Myanmar, and Sudan as the worst offenders when it comes to human trafficking, the United States is not immune to the problem. Hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked in the U.S., and most of them are women and children. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has advocated for a solution to this problem, saying world leaders need to do more to combat it. But our guests say it's not just up to law enforcement and border control to prevent trafficking—hospitality and travel workers can be the first line of defense.

 

President Obama's Ambassador-at-Large in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking In Persons, Luis CdeBaca speaks about the global human trafficking problem. Benjamin Skinner, author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy ...