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Holly Burkhalter Testifies Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee!
Last Tuesday, IJM Vice President of Government Relations Holly Burkhalter testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about effective tools and policy improvements that are needed to fight human trafficking in the next ten years.
Senators John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Marco Rubio, Dick Durbin, Ben Cardin and Jim Webb joined the conversation with the three panelists who testified including Holly, Humanity United's Vice President for Policy and Government Relations David Abramovitz, and actress and activist Jada Pinkett-Smith. After the testimonies, the Senators engaged questions on how to best implement these proposed policies in the following years so that the United States remains on the forefront in the fight against human trafficking.
You can find the full video of the hearing here: http://bit.ly/OBcVPl. Or read Holly's full testimony: http://bit.ly/MaPbTF
Kate Case is an intern for IJM's Justice Campaigns. Justice Campaigns mobilizes people around the country in support of U.S. policies that will lead to the abolition of human trafficking and modern-day slavery.