March 2005 The U.S. offered a resolution on human trafficking at the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The resolution - Eliminating Demand for Trafficked Women and Girls for All Forms of Exploitation - attracted 50 nations as co-sponsors and was adopted by consensus. This was the first resolution of a U.N. body to focus on eliminating demand for human trafficking, with the goal of protecting women and girls by drying up the "market" for victims, particularly for commercial sexual exploitation. With this resolution, the CSW also acknowledged the important link between commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking in women and girls. The resolution sets an important foundation for future efforts in international fora to address the demand that fuels the growth of human trafficking, particularly for commercial sexual exploitation.

Federal Anti-Trafficking Laws The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 is the first comprehensive federal law to address trafficking in persons. The law provides a three-pronged approach that includes prevention, protection, and prosecution. The TVPA was reauthorized through the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2003, 2005, and 2008.

-in terms of a major turning point, the collapse of the berlin wall and the end of the Soviet Union resulted in the start of sex traficking with young women around central and eastern Europe to work as prostitutes within the European Union -there has now been a re-focus in the fight against human traficking towards a more "women centered" approach -this involves better witnesss protection programs for the women who were victims of sex trafficking in europe

-when it comes to the U.S. it is important to crack down on smuggling. Also to target which countries have the greatest amount of immigrating/ smuggling numbers of people into the U.S. stricter regulations to filter out those smuggled for human trafficking purposes -amendments/laws must be passed through to strengthen the fight against the practice, make it less likely to encounter legal issues when fighting human trafficking -stop the practice at transit points