WASHINGTON—After the U.S. Home of Representatives handed laws from Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., to reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Safety Act for 5 years, American Lodge & Lodging Affiliation President and CEO Chip Rogers launched the next assertion:
“The lodge trade is united behind stopping human trafficking and serving to survivors, and AHLA applauds Home lawmakers for this bipartisan vote to increase the Trafficking Victims Safety Act,” mentioned Rogers. “The invoice gives important funding for trafficking prevention and consciousness efforts in addition to housing, employment, and education schemes for trafficking survivors. These initiatives complement AHLA Basis’s No Room For Trafficking initiative, which helps human trafficking prevention efforts within the lodge and lodging trade.”
The Home-passed invoice now strikes to the Senate for consideration.
AHLA Basis’s No Room For Trafficking (NRFT) effort unites the lodge trade round an strategy to figuring out, reporting, and stopping human trafficking whereas supporting survivors on their path ahead.
NRFT facilities on coaching employees on the way to spot and reply to human trafficking, displaying human trafficking indicator signage in inns, establishing company-wide insurance policies, coordinating with legislation enforcement, and sharing success tales and greatest practices. Greater than 1.6 million coaching classes have been carried out beneath the initiative since 2020.
