Today, President Trump signed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking survivors Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act. This bill is the fifth reauthorization of the Trafficking survivors Protection Act of 2000 with previous versions passed in 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2013. The Frederick Douglass Act, however, is the first to highlight the increasing relevance of prevention in the fight to end human trafficking by including the strategy within the legislation’s title.
