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You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 7 recorded in July 2011. Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

And I’m Sandra Morgan from the Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University of Southern California.

And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. And Sandie, we’re back for another episode to help all of us learn more about this issue, if I can speak today, so we can really help empower others with knowledge that will help them study the issues and be a voice and end human trafficking.

Absolutely, it’s summer. I understand everybody’s on vacation. But the thing is, human trafficking doesn’t take a hiatus. So we have to keep pushing forward on our efforts to understand what we can do and say to be strong advocates to fight this. I was very excited last week because the brand new 2011 TIP report, Trafficking in Persons report, from the U.S. State Department was released. And the exciting addition and enhancement that they made to that report was to introduce a fourth P.

And so we talked about the Trafficking in Persons report back on episode 5 last month. And hopefully, folks have had a chance to listen to it already. If you haven’t, you may want to go back before we talk about the report today and listen to episode number 5. And for those of you who aren’t, or are just looking at finding this episode the first time you can hop onto iTunes and just search for Ending Human Trafficking, you’ll be able to find episode 5 that way. Or you can go directly to our website at gcwj.vanguard.edu and you’ll see a category there for the Ending Human Trafficking podcast, and you can look at episode 5 that way too. And that’ll provide a great introduction to what we’re going to be talking about today, which is what is now in the 2011 report that has been released since that episode was published. And before we even go further though, you may have questions or comments for us on this episode as you’re listening to it or past episodes, or you may have a suggestion for something you’d like to hear in the future. And so before we jump in, if you have a question or comment for us, be sure to email that to us. And you can email us at [email protected] or you can call and leave a message for us or even talk to Sandie directly. And the number for folks to reach you at Sandie?

Area code 714-556-3610, extension 2242.

And that’s the number for the Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University, which of course, Sandie is the Director of and we’re based out of. So I think with that Sandie, we should jump right in and talk about the report and specifically talk about this, this fourth P, and we were talking about this earlier before we even started recording today. And I wasn’t familiar with the first three Ps; so I was wondering if you could give us a little background on first of all, what the first three Ps were and then talk about the addition that’s happened in this year’s report.

Well, in the past, the three Ps have been the structure for building our policy globally, nationally and locally. So that we would address prevention, protection, and prosecution. Prevention is always going to be the most effective means of reducing an illness or a blight, whatever. So what what kind of steps can we do for better prevention? And that will include things like education, for in the community, as well as for law enforcement and in areas of business, et cetera. And we can spend a whole podcast talking about prevention strategies, which is one of my favorite things.

And we probably will in an upcoming show.

Absolutely, ...