Executive Order 13257 of February 13, 2002
President’s Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, (22 U.S.C. 7103) (the ‘‘Act’’), and in order to combat trafficking in persons, a contemporary manifestation of slavery whose victims are predominantly women and children.