Sec. 2. Sense of congress
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It is the sense of Congress that— the United States has a long history of domestic and international engagement in preventing and responding to modern slavery; modern slavery involves extensive criminal activity and demands the full attention and commitment of the United States; the United States Government should continue to coordinate across departments and agencies to prevent and respond to this heinous activity that involves over 21,000,000 people worldwide through sustained investment in integrated, interagency anti-trafficking initiatives; while United States Government efforts continue to address many facets of modern slavery, there is an urgent need today for international public and private cooperation to increase resources available to programs that can make a measureable impact in reducing the prevalence of modern slavery by building the capacity of foreign governments to sustainably deter perpetrators of modern slavery through— establishing and enforcing the rule of law to hold perpetrators of modern slavery accountable, including— those who enslave children and adults in the sex trade; and those who enslave through forced labor and abusive labor recruitment practices and fees; promoting justice for victims of modern slavery; restoring and protecting survivors of modern slavery; and building partnerships between governments, civil society organizations, private sector entities and individuals, and survivors to seek to bring an end to modern slavery; and countries that fall within the first and second tiers of the United States Department of State’s annual Trafficking in Persons report could qualify as partner countries for the purposes of this Act, and many countries that fall within the Tier 2 watch list may also qualify, and therefore should be eligible for funding as partner countries under this Act, along with key jurisdictions of other countries, such as Tier 3 countries.