It's also working with legislators to turn human trafficking legislation into law, which Haiti so far does not have.
Alex Salmond, the SNP's leader, was quick to note that although it can impose motorway tolls, it cannot order 20mph speed limits on roads passing schools, because road-traffic legislation remains Westminster's responsibility.
On this basis, prostitutes were regularly criminalised and deported before trafficking legislation was brought in to safeguard women who had been coerced into the work.
He said Lynch had shown grace during the months-long confirmation process, in which her nomination became caught up in Congress a dispute over human trafficking legislation.
Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, and Senator Mark Kirk, Republican of Illinois, have agreed to work together on gun trafficking legislation that would seek to crack down on illegal guns.
It is self-serving and reckless for the sex workers' lobby to argue against trafficking legislation simply because recognition of the scale of the problem undermines a central plank of their argument: that prostitution is freely chosen.
Senators, meanwhile, are pushing similar gun trafficking legislation, sponsored by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y).
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats filibustered anti-human trafficking legislation on Tuesday because of an anti-abortion provision Republicans slipped into it.
