Sec. 203. United States support for integration of anti-trafficking in persons interventions in multilateral development banks
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The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State acting through the Ambassador at Large for Monitoring and Combating Trafficking in Persons, shall instruct the United States Executive Director of each multilateral development bank— to vote against proposed projects in Tier 2 Watch List and Tier 3 countries (as such terms are defined for purposes of section 110 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000) unless there is a counter-trafficking strategy, including assessment and mitigation efforts as needed, as part of the project; and to initiate discussions with the other executive directors and management of the respective multilateral development bank to— further develop anti-trafficking in persons provisions in relevant project development, safeguards, procurement, and evaluation policies; employing a risk-based approach, require human trafficking risk assessments and integration plans as a routine part of developing projects through existing, forthcoming, or new mechanisms and processes; support analyses of the impact of severe forms of trafficking in persons on key indicators of economic and social development and of the benefits of reducing human trafficking on economic and social development; support the proactive integration of effective anti-trafficking interventions into projects with the objectives of enhancing development outcomes and reducing the incidence of severe forms of trafficking in project areas; increase the capacity of multilateral development banks and of recipient governments to conduct human trafficking risk assessments and integrate anti-trafficking in persons interventions into projects; support the development of meaningful risk mitigation and reduction policies, regulations, and strategies within the multilateral development banks to reduce the incidence and prevalence of severe forms of trafficking in persons and enhance development outcomes that may be improved by reducing the incidence and prevalence of human trafficking; and support the inclusion of human trafficking risk analysis in the development of relevant country strategies by each multilateral development bank.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall make relevant officials available to brief the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives on the implementation of this section.