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Trafficked child slave working in construction in New Delhi.

Trafficked East European women forced to transact for commercial sex on the streets of Copenhagen.

Trafficked Roma children forced to beg in Tirana, Albania.

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Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008

President George W. Bush signs H.R. 7311,
the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act .

Named for English abolitionist William Wilberforce, who led the Parliamentary movement against the British slave trade in the early 19th century, this bill authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, enhancing measures to combat trafficking in persons.

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