[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 33 (Tuesday, February 19, 2002)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 7259-7260]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4071]


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                Executive Order 13257 of February 13, 2002

                
President's Interagency Task Force To Monitor and 
                Combat Trafficking in Persons

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including the Trafficking Victims Protection 
                Act of 2000, (22 U.S.C. 7103) (the ``Act''), and in 
                order to combat trafficking in persons, a contemporary 
                manifestation of slavery whose victims are 
                predominantly women and children, to ensure just and 
                effective punishment of traffickers, and to protect 
                their victims, it is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. (a) The President's Interagency Task Force 
                to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons is hereby 
                established.

                    (b) The Task Force shall consist of:

  (i) the Secretary of State;

  (ii) the Attorney General;

  (iii) the Secretary of Labor;

  (iv) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;

  (v) the Director of Central Intelligence;

  (vi) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;

  (vii) the Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development; and

  (viii) any additional officers or employees of the United States as may 
be designated by the President.

                    (c) The Task Force shall be chaired by the 
                Secretary of State.

                Sec. 2. Activities. The Task Force shall, consistent 
                with applicable law and the constitutional authorities 
                and duties of the President, carry out the following 
                activities:

                    (a) coordinate the implementation of the Act;
                    (b) measure and evaluate progress of the United 
                States and other countries in the areas of trafficking 
                in persons prevention, protection, and assistance to 
                victims of trafficking in persons, and prosecutions and 
                other enforcement efforts against traffickers, 
                including the role of public corruption in facilitating 
                trafficking in persons;
                    (c) assist the Secretary of State in the 
                preparation of the annual reports described in section 
                110 of the Act;
                    (d) expand interagency procedures to collect and 
                organize data, including significant research and 
                resource information on domestic and international 
                trafficking in persons, while ensuring that any data 
                collection procedures involved, respect the 
                confidentiality of victims of trafficking in persons;
                    (e) engage in efforts to facilitate cooperation 
                among countries of origin, transit, and destination, 
                and such efforts shall aim to strengthen local and 
                regional capacities to prevent trafficking in persons, 
                prosecute traffickers and assist trafficking victims; 
                shall include initiatives to enhance cooperative 
                efforts between destination countries, transit 
                countries, and countries of origin; and shall assist in 
                the appropriate reintegration of stateless victims of 
                trafficking in persons;

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                    (f) examine the role of the international ``sex 
                tourism'' industry in the trafficking of persons and in 
                the sexual exploitation of women and children around 
                the world;
                    (g) engage in consultation and advocacy with 
                governmental and nongovernmental organizations, among 
                other entities, to advance the purposes of the Act; and
                    (h) address such other matters related to the 
                purposes of the Act as the President may determine.

                Sec. 3. Administration. (a) The Department of State 
                shall provide funding and administrative support for 
                the Task Force, except as otherwise provided by the 
                Act.

                    (b) At the call of the Chair, the Task Force shall 
                meet as necessary to accomplish its mission.
                    (c) Task Force members may designate 
                representatives from their respective agencies to 
                represent them at Task Force meetings.
                    (d) Whenever the work of the Task Force involves a 
                matter committed by law or Presidential directive to 
                the consideration of the National Security Council, or 
                by Executive Order 13228 of October 8, 2001, to the 
                consideration of the Homeland Security Council, that 
                work shall be undertaken, and any communication by the 
                Secretary of State to the President shall be 
                undertaken, in a manner consistent with such law, 
                Presidential directive, or Executive Order.
                    (e) The Task Force shall have no directive 
                authority or other substantial independent authority.
                    (f) As necessary and appropriate, the Task Force 
                shall report to the President, through the Secretary of 
                State, the following:

  (i) progress on the implementation of the Act; and

  (ii) recommendations for United States policy to monitor and eliminate 
trafficking in persons and to protect the victims of trafficking in 
persons.

                Sec. 4. Judicial Review. This order does not create any 
                rights or benefits, enforceable at law or equity, 
                against the United States, its departments, its 
                agencies, or other entities, its officers or employees, 
                or any other person.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                     February 13, 2002.

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