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44 Cornell Int'l L.J. 33 (2011)
Greasing the Palm: An Argument for an Increased Focus on Public Corruption in the Fight against International Human Trafficking

handle is hein.journals/cintl44 and id is 37 raw text is: Greasing the Palm: An Argument for an Increased Focus on Public Corruption in the Fight Against International Human Trafficking Virginia M. Kendall Introduction ..................................................... 33 I. Examining the Links Between Public Corruption and Hum an Trafficking ....................................... 36 11. Current Anti-Trafficking Programs and Protocols Focus on Traffickers and Victims, Ignoring the Critical Role Played by Public Corruption ..................................... 38 A. International Reporting Mechanisms ................... 38 B. National Reporting Mechanisms ....................... 39 III. Ideas and Proposals ...................................... 40 C onclusion ...................................................... 47 Introduction The global problem of international human trafficking' is a complex, difficult, and multi-faceted one. Although the U.S. government and inter- t The Honorable Virginia M. Kendall is a federal District Court judge in the Northern District of Illinois. Judge Kendall was appointed to the federal bench in 2006. Prior to coming to the bench, she served for over ten years as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Illinois, where as a Deputy Chief she coordinated child exploitation and crimes against women cases and also served in the Public Corruption Unit. During her time as a prosecutor, she tried numerous jury trials involving both public corruption and crimes against children. She served on the Attorney General's Advisory Committee reviewing federal national and international child exploitation cases impacting multiple jurisdictions and has received numerous awards for her work in protecting victims' rights. Currently, she teaches at Northwestern University School of Law and Loyola University School of Law in Chicago. She also partners with Lawyers without Borders and the Department of Justice to teach judges in Kenya, Zambia, and Liberia about the unique issues they may face when presiding over cases involving crimes against women and children. Judge Kendall wishes to thank Krista Stone-Manista for her assistance. 1. Definitions of human trafficking vary widely. The present Article adopts the definition of the United States Trafficking Victims Protection Act, describing severe trafficking as sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age or as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the pur- pose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery and sex trafficking as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 § 103(8)-(9), 22 U.S.C. § 7102(8) & (9). 44 CORNELL INr'L LJ. 33 (2011)

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