Letters: Support effort to fight human trafficking

On July, 28, Secretary of State John Kerry released the 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report, which ranks 188 countries on their efforts to combat human trafficking.

It is the world’s gold standard for information on modern-day slavery, and it shows a desperate need for more international assistance to free children, women and men from enslavement and to prosecute those who exploited and abused them.

There is a bipartisan initiative in Congress to provide increased U.S. foreign aid through a public-private partnership, the End Modern Slavery Initiative.

I support this initiative, and I hope our entire South Carolina delegation will co-sponsor this bill and push for its passage.

This story was originally published August 15, 2015 at 8:21 PM.