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More Than One Million Anti-Human Trafficking Trainings Completed by Hotel Industry Employees
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More Than One Million Anti-Human Trafficking Trainings Completed by Hotel Industry Employees

ByEyes on Trafficking News

WASHINGTON, DC – The AHLA Foundation proudly announced today that Foundation-funded human trafficking awareness trainings have been completed more than one million times by hotel employees across the industry. Developed by Marriott International and administered by PACT (previously known as ECPAT-USA), the trainings are part of an industry-wide initiative to help hotel employees recognize and…

AHLA Unveils Human Trafficking Advisory Council, Survivor Fund
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AHLA Unveils Human Trafficking Advisory Council, Survivor Fund

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The American Hotel & Lodging Association Foundation has launched an advisory council of industry leaders dedicated to preventing human trafficking and supporting trafficking victims, it announced Tuesday. The No Room for Trafficking Advisory Council will develop and oversee a fund support human trafficking survivors and further “collective anti-trafficking efforts that meet the needs of today’s hospitality employers, employees and…

Trafficking survivor comes out of the shadows to get hotels to curb crime
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Trafficking survivor comes out of the shadows to get hotels to curb crime

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The first time Anneke Lucas heard about legislation designed to rescue human trafficking victims in hotels, she couldn’t help but think about how something like that could have helped her as a child. “If I had seen the definition that said I was not a prostitute, that would have made a difference for me,” Lucas…

Combating Human Trafficking – AHLA Foundation
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Combating Human Trafficking – AHLA Foundation

ByEyes on Trafficking News

800K+ Employees Trained to Identify & Report Suspected Human Trafficking Since 2020 $2.5M Contributed to industry’s first-ever Survivor Fund “In 2021, 10,359 situations of human trafficking were reported to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline involving 16,554 individual victims. Shocking as these numbers are, they are likely only a fraction of the actual problem,” said…