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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
NATIONAL SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH
WHEREAS, on January 4, 2010, President Barack Obama made the first Presidential Proclamation declaring January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month, culminating in the annual celebration of National Freedom Day on February 1; and
WHEREAS, the start of the year holds some of the nation's most important holidays and anniversaries of freedom including the federal ban on the transatlantic slave trade which went into effect on New Year's Day 1808, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which was delivered 55 years later on New Year's Day 1863, and the signing of 13th Amendment by President Abraham Lincoln and sent to the States for ratification on February 1, 1865; and
WHEREAS, human trafficking describes the crime of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving of people through force, fraud, or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit; and
WHEREAS, in the United States, human trafficking includes both forced labor and sex trafficking; and
WHEREAS, under 22 USC ? 7102, sex trafficking is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; and
WHEREAS, 22 USC ? 7102 additionally defines labor trafficking 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 purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery; and
WHEREAS, on November 15, 2000, The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons was adopted as part of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and became the f...
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