Imagine your 13-year-old daughter being forced to have sex with grown men in a country far from home instead of doing her math homework in the other room.
Picture your 12-year-old son being compelled to spend his day making bricks instead of playing a game of pickup basketball in your driveway.
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., has spent a good deal of time thinking about and looking into those kind of issues, which go on in America and across the world. And the international sex and labor slave trade — currently entrapping 27 million men, women and children — is something he wants to remedy.
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Today, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will introduce legislation that would create a nonprofit organization, the End Modern Slavery Initiative Foundation, that would employ programs with demonstrated success and best practices to free and sustain the recovery of victims of modern slavery, prevent people from becoming enslaved and enforce laws to punish individual and corporate perpetrators of such slavery.