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Combating Modern Day Slavery
Posted by: Mark Lagon
About the Author: Ambassador Mark P. Lagon is Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Ambassador Lagon's previous post: Human Trafficking: The Basics.
In every country around the world, including the United States, there…
Human Trafficking: The Basics
Posted by: Mark Lagon
Ambassador Mark Lagon serves as Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
Every day, all over the world, people are coerced into bonded labor, exploited in domestic servitude, and enslaved in agricultural work and in factories. The majority of transnational victims are females trafficked into prostitution.
We estimate that approximately 800,000 people are trafficked internationally each year; millions more are enslaved in their own countries. Approximately eighty…
North Korea Fails To Combat Trafficking of its Citizens
Posted by: Mark Lagon
Ambassador-at-Large Mark P. Lagon serves as the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a source country for men, women and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor, and for the fifth consecutive year has been placed in Tier 3, the lowest tier, in our annual…