
Laws
Laws

This Platform contains the Laws, Policies, Directives, and Regulations commonly utilized in cases of human trafficking.
Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and its Reauthorizations, and Other Related Federal Law on Human Trafficking:
- Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022 (January 5, 2023)
- Abolish Trafficking Reauthorization Act of 2022 (January 5, 2023)
- End Human Trafficking in Government Contracts Act of 2022 (October 17, 2022)
- Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (December 23, 2021)
- Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017 (January 9, 2019)
- Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018 (January 8, 2019)
- Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017 (December 21, 2018)
- Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2017 (December 21, 2018)
- Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 (May 29, 2015)
- National Defense Authorization Act FY2013, Title XVII, “Ending Trafficking in Government Contracting”
- Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Title XII of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013) (March 7, 2013)
- William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (December 23, 2008)
- Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (January 10, 2006)
- Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 (December 19, 2003)
- U.S. Leadership on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (May 27, 2003)
- Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 (PROTECT Act) (April 30, 2003)
- Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (October 28, 2000)
- Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 Convict-made goods; importation prohibited
- Child Soldiering Prevention Act of 2008
Federal Statutes from 18 USC Chapter 77: Peonage Slavery and Trafficking in Persons:
- § 1581. Peonage; obstructing enforcement
- § 1582. Vessels for slave trade
- § 1583. Enticement into slavery
- § 1584. Sale into involuntary servitude
- § 1585. Seizure, detention, transportation or sale of slaves
- § 1586. Service on vessels in slave trade
- § 1587. Possession of slaves aboard vessel
- § 1588. Transportation of slaves from United States
- § 1589. Forced labor
- § 1590. Trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor
- § 1591. Sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud, or coercion
- § 1592. Unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor
- § 1593A. Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons
- § 1594. General provisions
- § 1597. Unlawful conduct with respect to immigration documents

§1589, 1590, 1591, and 1592 are the statutes most often used to prosecute trafficking in persons offenses.
Other relevant statutes may include:
18 U.S.C. Chapter 110 Sexual Exploitation and Other Abuse of Children:
- § 2251. Sexual exploitation of children
- § 2251A. Selling or buying of children
- § 2252. Certain activities relating to material involving the sexual exploitation of minors
- § 2252A. Certain activities relating to material constituting or containing child pornography
- § 2253. Criminal forfeiture
- § 2254. Civil forfeiture
- § 2255. Civil remedy for personal injuries
- § 2258. Failure to report child abuse
- § 2259. Mandatory restitution
- § 2260. Production of sexually explicit depictions of a minor for importation into the United States
18 U.S.C. Chapter 109A Sexual Abuse:
- § 2241. Aggravated sexual abuse
- § 2242. Sexual abuse
- § 2243. Sexual abuse of a minor or ward
- § 2244. Abusive sexual contact
- § 2245. Sexual abuse resulting in death
- § 2246. Definitions for chapter
- § 2247. Repeat offenders
- § 2248. Mandatory restitution
18 U.S.C. Chapter 117 Transportation for Illegal Sexual Activity and Related Crimes:
- § 2421. Transportation generally
- § 2421A. Promotion or facilitation of prostitution and reckless disregard of sex trafficking
- § 2422. Coercion and enticement
- § 2423. Transportation of minors
- § 2424. Filing factual statement about alien individual
- § 2425. Use of interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor
- § 2426. Repeat offenders
- § 2427. Inclusion of offenses relating to child pornography in definition of sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense
- § 2428. Forfeitures
- § 2429. Mandatory restitution
Forced Labor:
- § 371. Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States
- § 1542. False statement in application and use of passport
- § 1544. Misuse of passport
- § 1351. Fraud in foreign labor contracting
10 USC 917a: Article 117a. Wrongful broadcast or distribution of intimate visual images
10 USC 920b: Article 120b. Rape and sexual assault of a child