Shawna Bader-Blau the Executive Director of Solidarity Center, an organization that protects worker rights, testified at the hearing alongside two other witnesses -- seven-time Grammy-nominated Christian singer Natalie Grant who is also the Co-founder of Hope for Justice and Ambassador John Cotton Richmond from the Office to Monitor & Combat Trafficking at the U.S. Department of State.
Senator Tim Kaine had some good questions for Ms. Bader-Blau, and there was some also some interesting dialogue about Saudi Arabia. From Ms. Bader-Blau at 1:30:24:
I would urge the members of the committee in your conversations later about Saudi Arabia and ongoing to really take advantage of the spotlight on Saudi Arabia to highlight the extreme problem of trafficking and forced labor in that country. Its um brutal. It isn’t just people being beheaded. It’s virtually the entire migrant low wage workforce is in some spectrum of trafficking in Saudi Arabia and they need to be held accountable for that.
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| Witnesses at the Hearing "The Global Fight to End Modern Slavery" | Source: foreign.senate.gov |
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