Ending Human Trafficking in the Twenty-First Century

In this Council Special Report, Jamille Bigio, senior fellow for the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rachel Vogelstein, Douglas Dillon senior fellow and director of the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, offer a valuable primer on the nature and extent of the problem, explain why it matters, and provide numerous viable policy prescriptions. They also deftly take stock of the frameworks currently in place meant to stop human trafficking, including the Palermo Protocol and, in the United States, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act; describe how and why these policies fall short; and suggest how vi Foreword governments, private industry, and the security and development sectors can narrow this gap.