华盛顿——美国国际开发署（US Agency for International Development，USAID）正在为消除当代奴役行径向学生们征集新颖、有创意的良方。

10月11日，美国国际开发署署长拉吉夫·沙阿（Rajiv Shah）在加利福尼亚州马利布市（Malibu）的佩珀代因大学（Pepperdine University）宣布启动“反人口贩运校园挑战计划”（Campus Challenge to Counter Trafficking in Persons）。

美国国际开发署说，“反人口贩运校园挑战计划”经由美国国际开发署网站ChallengeSlavery.org分三个阶段展开，目的在于提高全球对人口贩运的认识、在世界各地大专院校的学生和学者中发起相关的运动以及提出新颖的、有创意的想法和解决方案来制止人口贩运，帮助全球2090万遭受性剥削或劳役剥削的人。

在该计划的第一个阶段通过ChallengeSlavery.org网站从10月11 日至11月28日展开期间，学生们将有机会参加有关各种人口贩运话题的讨论组、主持网上对话并策划众包主题以确定将在下一阶段解决的问题。

比赛阶段从11月28日开始至2013年1月8日结束。在这个阶段，来自美国和世界各地的学生将提交建议书，提出有创意的技术方案来推动防止及打击人口贩运的工作。

从2013年1月9日至2013年1月30日，整个ChallengeSlavery.org社区将应邀对这些建议书进行评分，并就如何改善这些拟议方案提出建议。

2013年2月1日，美国国际开发署将公布进入半决赛的名单，并在接下来的3个星期里由反人口贩运专家技术小组对进入半决赛的建议书进行评判。获胜者名单将在2月底公布，他们将应邀与赞助方、反人口贩运专家和技术专家分享其建议书。

美国国际开发署表示，已被纳入开发署2012年反人口贩运政策的实施之中并建立在欧巴马总统在“克林顿全球倡议”（Clinton Global Initiative）发表的讲话基础之上的开发署的政策和计划更加强调创新、技术和实证研究，以帮助遏制人口贩运并向受害者提供援助。

美国国际开发署表示，它正在与“恕不出售”（Not for Sale）、“奴役足迹”（Slavery Footprint）、“解放奴隶”（Free the Slaves）及“终结剥削与人口贩运演唱会”（MTV Exit）就此项目展开合作，以扩大努力、激励已在为此而奋斗的数百万人士并邀请更多的活动人士加入这项事业，最终增强这个运动的力量以使每天都被剥夺尊严的数百万人重获自由。

突显当代奴役行为和人口贩运的猖獗性并打击这些邪恶行为历来是美国的重点工作。这场斗争中的一个重要工具是美国国务院每年发布的人口贩运问题（TIP）报告。该报告是帮助外国政府展开打击人口贩运行动的主要外交工具。国务院表示，这个报告同时也是有关世界各国政府打击人口贩运努力的最全面的资料，并体现了美国政府在这个关键的人权和执法议题上在全球发挥主导作用的承诺。

该报告以最新资料和全球性视角审视人口贩运活动的本质和规模，以及政府为打击、取缔人口贩运所采取的广泛行动。美国政府通过人口贩运报告与外国政府展开对话，以推动反贩运方面的改革并打击贩运，同时将资源集中投入到预防项目、保护项目和惩处项目中。

此外，在2001年至2010年期间，美国国际开发署在68个国家和地区为反人口贩运活动提供了1.633亿美元资金并将继续在全球展开这一努力。

Lucy Liu, actress and UNICEF ambassador, speaks at a USAID symposium in 2009 about the need to stop human trafficking. Since 2001, USAID has provided more than $163 million to combat human trafficking.

Washington — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is asking students to come up with new and innovative ways to end modern slavery.

USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah announced the Campus Challenge to Counter Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) on October 11 at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

Across three phases and through the USAID website ChallengeSlavery.org, the C-TIP Campus Challenge is designed to increase global awareness about trafficking, inspire activism among students and scholars at colleges and universities worldwide and generate new, creative ideas and solutions to stop human trafficking and help the 20.9 million people around the world are enslaved in sex or labor exploitation, USAID said.

During the first phase from October 11 to November 28 at ChallengeSlavery.org, students will have the opportunity to participate in discussion groups on various trafficking subtopics, host online conversations, and crowdsourcing issues that will frame the problems to be addressed in the next phase.

The contest phase, from November 28 to January 8, 2013, will be open for applications from U.S. and international students proposing innovative technological solutions to advance trafficking-in-persons prevention and protection.

From January 9, 2013, to January 30, 2013, the ChallengeSlavery.org community will be invited to rate the proposals and provide suggestions on how submissions can be improved.

On February 1, 2013, USAID will announce the semifinalists and in the following three weeks, semifinalist proposals will be judged by an expert C-TIP and technologist panel. The winners will be announced at the end of February and will be invited to share their proposals with donors, C-TIP and technology professionals.

Included in the implementation of the USAID’s 2012 C-TIP Policy, and building on President Obama’s speech at the Clinton Global Initiative, USAID policy and programs place a heightened emphasis on innovation, technology and empirical research to help prevent trafficking and provide assistance to victims, USAID said.

USAID said it is partnering with Not for Sale, Slavery Footprint, Free the Slaves and MTV Exit on this project to maximize efforts and inspire millions of people already working on the issue and invite new activists to the cause, ultimately, strengthening the movement to return freedom to the millions of people robbed of their dignity every day.

Highlighting the prevalence of modern-day slavery and human trafficking and combating these ills have been priorities for the United States. One of the primary tools in this battle is the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report issued by the U.S. State Department. The report is the principal diplomatic tool to engage foreign governments on human trafficking. The State Department says the report is also the world’s most comprehensive resource of governmental anti-human trafficking efforts and reflects the U.S. government’s commitment to global leadership on this key human rights and law enforcement issue.

The report represents an updated, global look at the nature and scope of trafficking in persons and the broad range of government actions to confront and eliminate it. The U.S. government uses the TIP report to engage foreign governments in dialogues to advance anti-trafficking reforms and to combat trafficking and to target resources on prevention, protection and prosecution programs.

In addition, USAID programmed $163.3 million in C-TIP activities in 68 countries and regional missions between 2001 and 2010 and continues to work around the world.