[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 19 (Friday, February 18, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E281]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  INTRODUCTION OF THE ``PREVENTION OF TRAFFICKING OF TSUNAMI ORPHANS 
                                 ACT''

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 17, 2005

  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, today, I, along with Representatives 
Charles Rangel, Charles Gonzalez, Juanita Millender-McDonald, and 
Robert Wexler, introduce legislation, the ``Prevention of Trafficking 
of Tsunami Orphans Act,'' which would authorize critical assistance to 
the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International 
Development to support programs that are being carried out by 
nongovernmental organizations to protect children who are homeless or 
orphaned as a result of the Indian Ocean tsunamis in December 2004.
  According to the June 2004 Trafficking in Persons Report released by 
the Department of State, approximately 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, 
and children are trafficked across international borders each year. 
Instead of dreams of better jobs and better lives, they are trapped 
into a nightmare of coercion, violence, and disease. This legislation 
will help to prevent the children left orphaned or homeless by the 
Indian Ocean tsunamis from suffering a similar fate.




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