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United States Department of Health and Human Services Announces Anti-Trafficking Hotline
On March 11, 2004, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G.

National Conference on Human Trafficking, Dallas, TX
The Second Annual Trafficking in Persons Conference on Modern Day Slavery: Global, National and Local Perspectives for Prevention, Protection and Prosecution will be held at the Adams Mark Hotel in Dallas Texas from 3-5 March 2004.

World Vision Launches Sex Tourism Prevention Program
At the start of March 2004, World Vision launched a Child Sex Tourism Prevention Program in Cambodia, Costa Rica, Thailand and the United States.

UNDP Launches Anti-Trafficking Trainers Manuals
In February, the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior launched an initiative in Bucharest with UNDP and the U.S.

US-ASEAN Dialogue 29-30 January 2004
The ASEAN-US dialogue relationship began in 1977.

US Ambassador to Philippines visits Trafficking Halfway House
US Ambassador to the Philippines Francis Ricciardone visited the Bahay Silangan sa Daungan (Port Halfway House) at the Manila Harbor last December 9, 2003.

Human Rights Challenge of Globalization in Asia-Pacific-US: The Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
The "Human Rights Challenge of Globalization in Asia-Pacific-US: The Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children" conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii was the initial event in Globalization Research Center's (GRC) on-going research project on Trafficking: Globalization and Labor.