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HCONRES 114 105th Congress House

Expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the world-wide trafficking of women and girls, whereby women and girls are coerced, abducted, or deceived into migrating within or across national…

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Official title: Expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the world-wide trafficking of women and girls, whereby women and girls are coerced, abducted, or deceived into migrating within or across national borders, and particularly the trafficking of Burmese women and girls in Thailand for the purposes of forced prostitution.

Introduced: July 25, 1997 See on congress.gov
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
Aug 21, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights.
Aug 21, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
Jul 10, 1997
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Jul 10, 1997
Introduced in House
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 Latest action August 21, 1997

Referred to the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) trafficking in persons violates the fundamental principles of human dignity and that forced prostitution involving coercion or debt bondage constitutes a form of forced labor and a slavery-like practice; (2) the State Department or other appropriate Government agencies should investigate, combat, and report to the Congress annually on trafficking of women and girls and forced prostitution; (3) the international working group formed as a result of the World Congress on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children should continue its efforts; (4) the executive branch should take steps to assure that weapons and equipment provided or sold to the Thai police do not become available to members of forces involved in trafficking, forced prostitution, or abuse of women and girls who are apprehended; (5) the United States Agency for International Development should target a portion of its assistance to Thailand for AIDS prevention and control to the foreign population in Thailand, particularly Burmese women and girls in the Thai sex industry; and (6) the State Department should take specified steps, such as urging the Thai Government to strictly enforce the law criminalizing brothel operators, procurers, Thai police complicity in forced prostitution, and customers of women and children trafficked for the purpose of forced prostitution.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Con. Res. 114: Expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the world-wide trafficking of women and girls, whereby women and girls are coerced, abducted, or deceived into migrating within or across national borders, and particularly the trafficking of Burmese women and girls in Thailand for the purposes of forced prostitution.. 105th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HCONRES-114/
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"H. Con. Res. 114: Expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the world-wide trafficking of women and girls, whereby women and girls are coerced, abducted, or deceived into migrating within or across national borders, and particularly the trafficking of Burmese women and girls in Thailand for the purposes of forced prostitution.." 105th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HCONRES-114/.
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H. Con. Res. 114, 105th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HCONRES-114/.
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[H. Con. Res. 114: Expressing the sense of the Congress concerning the world-wide trafficking of women and girls, whereby women and girls are coerced, abducted, or deceived into migrating within or across national borders, and particularly the trafficking of Burmese women and girls in Thailand for the purposes of forced prostitution.](https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HCONRES-114/)
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