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PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 24-1768
PROPOSED RESOLUTION
PROPOSED RESOLUTION REQUESTING A PUBLIC HEARING OF THE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMITTEE TO ADDRESS THE TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MEN AND BOYS IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
WHEREAS, in the U.S. Department of State's fact sheet on 'Understanding Human Trafficking', it identifies "trafficking in persons" and "human trafficking" as umbrella terms-often used interchangeably-to refer to a crime whereby traffickers exploit and profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them to perform labor or engage in commercial sex; and
WHEREAS, in that same fact sheet, the U.S. Department of State further identifies that both labor and sex trafficking entails the use of force, fraud, or coercion that exploits the labor or services of another person or to compel their engagement in a commercial sex act; and
WHEREAS, under Illinois statute, 720 ILCS 5/10-9 , trafficking is defined as (1) the recruitment, enticement, harboring, transport, provision, or obtainment by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain by any means, another person, intending or knowing that the person will be subjected to involuntary servitude, or (2) the benefiting, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture that has engaged in an act of involuntary servitude or involuntary sexual servitude of a minor; and
WHEREAS, the statute goes on to define that a company commits trafficking in persons when the company knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture that has engaged in an act of involuntary servitude or involuntary sexual servitude of a minor; and
WHEREAS, based on these definitions, it bears emphasizing that adult consensual sex work is not trafficking; and
WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Office of Drugs & Crime Global Report on Trafficking Persons (2022), the majority of human traffick...
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