prostitution is not the only form of involuntary servitude outlined in this report. it contains true stories like a family in india that were bonded laborers until freed with the help of n.g.o. young boys abducted from their school by militia groups and tortured until they submitted to serving as soldiers. an eight-year-old girl given away as an unpaid domestic servant after her mother and brother died. these are real people. these are real stories. the u.s. is not immune from the problems of modern-day slavery. the 2009 trafficking in persons report highlights young girls brought to california from egypt by a wealthy couple who forced her to work up to 20 hours a day for just $45 a month. earlier in june more than a dozen filipinos were rescued from hotels in douglas and caspar, wyoming, where they were working with minimal pay and forced to live in horrendous conditions. their employment agency allowed their work visas to expire so they would be trapped into servitude as illegal aliens. a federal grand skwreurp brought forward a 45-count indictment on racketeering.

congress also gave us welcome criminal tools to ensure that promises do not expose workers to servitude and mandated that these the recipients receive information about their rights before they traveled to the united states. we welcome those tools, and we will use them. to echoe \ secretary clinton's call, -- to echo secretary clinton's call, we must build on our common interests and to attack this phenomenon. a number of partners have been featured as heroes. we are joined by some of them who the secretary will introduce, but several of them were unable to be there with us -- be here with us today. a greek police commander has dedicated his life to breaking up the trafficking rings that so often plagues southeastern europe. the trafficking survivor abdicates fiercely deliberate indonesian contracts labor is in the middle east. when over a bar patron boasting about a high and prostitution ring, in mozambiquean lawyer did not just walk away. he posed as a jaunt to infiltrate the organization so he could take the evidence to the police. those men are now standing trial in south africa. [a

she's compared pregnancy to involuntary servitude. describing pregnant women as losers in the contraceptive lottery. she even criticized then senator clinton for claiming a need to keep abortions traumatic experiences rare. she as i said has said that she beliefs that -- believes that being pregnant -- banning abortion undermines the 13th amendment which bans slavery. and she says that there is no father and no child just a fetus. any move of the courts to force a woman to have a child amounts to involuntary servitude. she goes on and on and on to talk about how horrible it is to bear a child. and i think it is a very sad, sad situation that the president has nominated a woman who has these kinds of beliefs to head up an extremely important position in the administration, the office of legal counsel. and i wanted to point that out as another inconsistency in the positions that he's taken. i yield back. mrs. schmidt: i thank you so much for that because consistently since january the words and the actions have not met. the conscience c

involuntary servitude, hereditary slavery which still exists in northwest african countries. sex trafficking people held in the sex industry through force and coercion. that manifests itself in a lot of different ways. really it is the same old evil we have been trying to deal with as a country and as a world for centu centuri centuries. host: how big is the problem, especially here in the united states. guest: the numbers are hard to get a handle on in the u.s. the number is as high as 14 to 15,000 people. there are victim benefits and visas from other people who have been victimized of the crimes to about 5,000 people over the last eight or 10 years. it is a significant problem. host: who is involved in the human trafficking? guest: it ranges from the stereotypical russian mobsters that hollywood and others think of the trafficking central all the way to opportunistic individual employers. when i was at the justice department, we helped rescue a young girl, nine years old, she was brought from egypt, she was enslaved by a couple in orange county, california as a domestic se

the slavery and involuntary servitude is something that cannot be remedied by having different immigration structures, having labor instructors and different policies about various things. it can only be dealt with by investigating and prosecuting the people who dare to do them. we stand ready not just abroad but also home for those countries who like to engage and you are willing to do the same type of self assessment that we did in our attorney general's report which was also released today with the get the strengths and weaknesses of the united states government's response for those countries who are willing to engage in that type of partnership -- the rest of the government stands ready to partner. >> what jumped out at me was the substantial increase in a number of the country's put on the tier 2 watch list. what is it a function of? this is a reflection of the at coming or this administration applying more stringent criteria than the last one dead? >> i think it is all of the above actually. we have seen one assembly countries this year -- 173 countries this year. congress changed th

to prevent men, women, and children from being trafficked for sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude. slavery. iran's pour human-rights record worsened, and continued to commit serious abuses. the government severely limited the citizen's right to change their government peaceably through free and fair elections. authorities held political prisoners, and intensified a crackdown against women's rights reformers, ethnic minority rights activists, student activists, and religious minorities. we must look beyond the past week, which is almost the most -- which is only the most recent example. we cannot afford to lose sight of the threat that it presents to our own national security interests, and indeed, to global peace and security. iran draws even closer to crossing the nuclear point of no return. admiral mike mullen, the chairman of our joint chiefs of staff has stated that they have enough uranium to make an atomic bomb. international inspectors also report that iran has enough low ridge uranium to achieve nuclear weapons break out possibilities and possible military dimensions to it

slavery and involuntary servitude that the traffickers hold their victims in is something that cannot simply be remedied by having different immigration structures, by having labor inspectors, by having different policies about various things. rather, it can only be dealt with by prosecuting the people that dare do this. we stand ready, not just a broad, but at home. for other countries that are willing to the same type of assessments that we did in the attorney general's report which was also released today where we look at, what are the strengths, where the weaknesses of the united states government's response to those countries who are willing to engage in that type of partnership. the justice department and the rest of the u.s. government stands ready to partner. >> the thing that jumped out of me when looking at this report is the rather substantial increase in the number of countries on the tier 2 watch list. i am wondering what you attribute that to. what is it a function of? is it a function of a larger pool of countries being reviewed? is it a function of the economy? is it a

. >> the redesigned book -- >> -- slavery and involuntary servitude, pull their victims -- >> we're going to leave this program and take you live to an event with white house chief of staff rahm emanuel. he is expected to talk about education and health care as part of a conference hosted by the democratic. and council. he was a member of congress. live coverage from the press club in washington on c-span2. >> getting things done is what rahm emanuel lives to do. everyday from the time he hits the pool at 5:00 a.m. to his last round of phone calls, he is fighting for the ideas we care about. to create a new energy economy and give every american the skills they need to finish college. he keeps a copy of our book, when he gets another done, those who had a chance to work with rahm emanuel always do what he is capable of doing. it is wonderful to see his personality sweet the town off of its feet. it is a pleasure to introduce a man of ideas, and the greatest champions the cause has ever had, chief of staff to the president of the united states, rahm emanuel. >> nothing like getting through

held in bondage worldwide of whom they estimated about 1.5 million are for sexual slavery, sexual servitude which is perhaps a little bit counterintuitive to what people have seen the modern slavery or the human trafficking problem as historically. certainly press accounts, what you see in movies, what you see in mass culture tends to define this as a problem of people being moved for prostitution, people perhaps being kidnapped into prostitution. whether what we see, what the unodc has reported on in their trafficking report earlier this year and what the ilo is reporting on is people are being enslaved, whether it is prostitution, labor, agriculture, factories, fields, domestic service they are often entering into the relationship voluntarily and then becoming enslaved within that. and so, of course, the notion of obtaining -- while that is certainly one of the ways in which trafficking manifests itself, we often see maintaining the victims as just as important. and that makes sense because you often have situations where a person will have agreed to work as a maid, for instance, and it's

to prevent men, women, and children from being trafficked for sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude, slavery. likewise, as the state department's human rights report for 2008 noted, iran's poor human rights record worsened and it continued to commit numerous serious abuses. the government severely limited citizens' right to change their government peacefully through free and fair elections. authorities hilled political prisoners and intensified a crackdown against women's rights reformers, ethnic minority rights activists, student activists, and religious minorities. it is a pattern for decades system of we must look beyond the past week, which was only the most recent demonstration of the regime's brutality and authoritarianism. but the iranian regime is not just a threat to its own people. we cannot afford to lose sight of the flet that it presents to our own national security interests and indeed to global peace and security. iran draws -- draws even closer to crossing the nuclear point of no return. a admiral mike mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said that iran lik