I am way behind on this bit of good news. However, I am happy to have finally come across it. My buddy Greg Cochran posted on this earlier in the month and referenced the blog, second-hand smoke.
The law–that will be in effect until 2011–focuses on trafficking within the United States and throughout the world; it greatly strengthens the role and authority of the Trafficking in Persons Office and greatly enhances the tools available to domestic criminal prosecutors of traffickers. It also increases protections available to trafficking victims in the U.S. through newly authorized programs to assist U.S. victims of trafficking and vulnerable-to-trafficking unaccompanied foreign national children brought to the United States. The Act also greatly strengthens U.S. government efforts to end the use of child soldiers.
Read the whole thing here. Go here for the an overview of the legislation.
