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4	4	STSESSION S. RES. 39
5	5	Supporting the observation of National Trafficking and Modern Slavery Pre-
6	6	vention Month during the period beginning on January 1, 2025, and
7	7	ending on February 1, 2025, to raise awareness of, and opposition
8	8	to, human trafficking and modern slavery.
9	9	IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
10	10	JANUARY27, 2025
11	11	Mr. G
12	12	RASSLEY(for himself, Ms. CORTEZMASTO, Ms. COLLINS, Ms. MUR-
13	13	KOWSKI, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. DURBIN, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. BLUMENTHAL,
14	14	and Mrs. C
15	15	APITO) submitted the following resolution; which was consid-
16	16	ered and agreed to
17	17	RESOLUTION
18	18	Supporting the observation of National Trafficking and Mod-
19	19	ern Slavery Prevention Month during the period begin-
20	20	ning on January 1, 2025, and ending on February 1,
21	21	2025, to raise awareness of, and opposition to, human
22	22	trafficking and modern slavery.
23	23	Whereas the United States abolished the transatlantic slave
24	24	trade in 1808, and abolished chattel slavery and prohib-
25	25	ited involuntary servitude in 1865;
26	26	Whereas, because the people of the United States remain
27	27	committed to protecting individual freedom, there is a na-
28	28	tional imperative to eliminate human trafficking and
29	29	modern slavery, which is commonly considered to mean—
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33	33	(1) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, pro-
34	34	vision, or obtaining of an individual through the use of
35	35	force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjecting
36	36	that individual to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt
37	37	bondage, or slavery; or
38	38	(2) the inducement of a commercial sex act by force,
39	39	fraud, or coercion, or in which the individual induced to
40	40	perform that act is younger than 18 years of age;
41	41	Whereas forced labor and human trafficking generates reve-
42	42	nues of at least $150,000,000,000 annually worldwide,
43	43	and there are an estimated 50,000,000 victims of human
44	44	trafficking and modern slavery across the globe;
45	45	Whereas victims of human trafficking are difficult to identify
46	46	and are subject to manipulation, force, fraud, coercion,
47	47	and abuse;
48	48	Whereas children and youths experiencing homelessness are
49	49	particularly vulnerable and susceptible to manipulation,
50	50	making them a prime target for the lucrative criminal in-
51	51	dustry of human trafficking;
52	52	Whereas the Department of Justice has reported that human
53	53	trafficking and modern slavery has been reported and in-
54	54	vestigated in each of the 50 States and the District of
55	55	Columbia;
56	56	Whereas the Department of State has reported that the top
57	57	3 countries of origin of federally-identified human traf-
58	58	ficking victims in the United States in fiscal year 2021
59	59	were the United States, Mexico, and Honduras;
60	60	Whereas, to help businesses in the United States combat
61	61	child labor and forced labor in global supply chains, the
62	62	Department of Labor has identified 159 goods from 78
63	63	countries that are made by child labor and forced labor;
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67	67	Whereas, since 2007, the National Human Trafficking Hot-
68	68	line has identified 100,891 instances of human traf-
69	69	ficking involving 197,000 victims;
70	70	Whereas there are known risk factors that contribute to
71	71	youths running away, including domestic violence, child
72	72	sexual abuse, and neglect, and runaway youths who expe-
73	73	rience homelessness are potential targets for human traf-
74	74	ficking;
75	75	Whereas, in 2024, the National Center for Missing and Ex-
76	76	ploited Children received over 27,800 reports of possible
77	77	child sex trafficking;
78	78	Whereas, of the more than 29,000 missing children reported
79	79	to National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in
80	80	2024, 1 in 7 was likely a victim of child sex trafficking;
81	81	Whereas today, the average age of child sex trafficking vic-
82	82	tims reported missing to the National Center for Missing
83	83	and Exploited Children is only 15 years old;
84	84	Whereas youth experiencing homelessness experience high
85	85	rates of human trafficking, and 1 in 5 homeless youths
86	86	is a victim of sex trafficking, labor trafficking, or both;
87	87	Whereas 22 percent of youths who experience homelessness
88	88	were approached for paid sex on their first night of
89	89	homelessness;
90	90	Whereas LGBTQ youth are at higher risk of becoming sex
91	91	trafficking victims than their peers;
92	92	Whereas youths facing homelessness have a lower probability
93	93	of being trafficked if they have a supportive adult in their
94	94	life;
95	95	Whereas the Administration for Native Americans of the De-
96	96	partment of Health and Human Services reports that
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100	100	American Indian, Alaska Native, and Pacific Islander
101	101	women and girls have a heightened risk for sex traf-
102	102	ficking;
103	103	Whereas the Department of Justice found that studies on the
104	104	topic of human trafficking of American Indians and Alas-
105	105	ka Natives suggest there are—
106	106	(1) high rates of sexual exploitation of Native
107	107	women and girls;
108	108	(2) gaps in data and research on trafficking of
109	109	American Indian and Alaska Native victims; and
110	110	(3) barriers that prevent law enforcement agencies
111	111	and victim service providers from identifying and re-
112	112	sponding appropriately to Native victims;
113	113	Whereas, according to the Government Accountability Office,
114	114	from fiscal year 2013 through fiscal year 2016, there
115	115	were only 14 Federal investigations and 2 Federal pros-
116	116	ecutions of human trafficking offenses in Indian country;
117	117	Whereas, to combat human trafficking and modern slavery in
118	118	the United States and globally, the people of the United
119	119	States, the Federal Government, and State, Tribal, and
120	120	local governments must be—
121	121	(1) aware of the realities of human trafficking and
122	122	modern slavery; and
123	123	(2) dedicated to stopping the horrific enterprises of
124	124	human trafficking and modern slavery;
125	125	Whereas the United States should hold accountable all indi-
126	126	viduals, groups, organizations, governments, and coun-
127	127	tries that support, advance, or commit acts of human
128	128	trafficking and modern slavery;
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132	132	Whereas, through education, the United States must also
133	133	work to end human trafficking and modern slavery in all
134	134	forms in the United States and around the world;
135	135	Whereas victims of human trafficking deserve a trauma-in-
136	136	formed approach that integrates the pursuit of justice
137	137	and provision of social services designed to help them es-
138	138	cape, and recover from, the physical, mental, emotional,
139	139	and spiritual trauma they endured;
140	140	Whereas combating human trafficking requires a whole-of-
141	141	government effort that rests on a unified and coordinated
142	142	response among Federal, State, Tribal, and local agencies
143	143	and that places equal value on the prevention of traf-
144	144	ficking, the identification and stabilization of victims, and
145	145	the investigation and prosecution of traffickers;
146	146	Whereas laws to prosecute perpetrators of human trafficking
147	147	and to assist and protect victims of human trafficking
148	148	and modern slavery have been enacted in the United
149	149	States, including—
150	150	(1) the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
151	151	(22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.);
152	152	(2) title XII of the Violence Against Women Reau-
153	153	thorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–4; 127 Stat.
154	154	136);
155	155	(3) the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of
156	156	2015 (Public Law 114–22; 129 Stat. 227);
157	157	(4) sections 910 and 914(e) of the Trade Facilita-
158	158	tion and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (Public Law
159	159	114–125; 130 Stat. 239, 274);
160	160	(5) section 1298 of the National Defense Authoriza-
161	161	tion Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (22 U.S.C. 7114);
162	162	(6) the Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017
163	163	(Public Law 115–392; 132 Stat. 5250);
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167	167	(7) the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2017
168	168	(Public Law 115–393; 132 Stat. 5265);
169	169	(8) the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Pre-
170	170	vention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018
171	171	(Public Law 115–425; 132 Stat. 5472);
172	172	(9) the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthoriza-
173	173	tion Act of 2017 (Public Law 115–427; 132 Stat. 5503);
174	174	(10) the Violence Against Women Act Reauthoriza-
175	175	tion Act of 2022 (Public Law 117–103; 136 Stat. 840);
176	176	(11) the Abolish Trafficking Reauthorization Act of
177	177	2022 (Public Law 117–347; 136 Stat. 6199);
178	178	(12) the Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protec-
179	179	tion Reauthorization Act of 2022 (Public Law 117–348;
180	180	136 Stat. 6211); and
181	181	(13) the End Human Trafficking in Government
182	182	Contracts Act of 2022 (Public Law 117–211; 136 Stat.
183	183	2248);
184	184	Whereas the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015
185	185	(Public Law 114–22; 129 Stat. 227) established the
186	186	United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking to
187	187	provide a formal platform for survivors of human traf-
188	188	ficking to advise and make recommendations on Federal
189	189	anti-trafficking policies to the Interagency Task Force to
190	190	Monitor and Combat Trafficking established by the
191	191	President;
192	192	Whereas the Department of Defense, the General Services
193	193	Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space
194	194	Administration issued a final rule entitled ‘‘Federal Ac-
195	195	quisition Regulation; Ending Trafficking in Persons’’ (80
196	196	Fed. Reg. 4967 (January 29, 2015)) to implement Exec-
197	197	utive Order 13627 (41 U.S.C. 3101 note; relating to
198	198	strengthening protections against trafficking in persons
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202	202	in Federal contracts), which clarifies the policy of the
203	203	United States on combating trafficking in persons as out-
204	204	lined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation by strength-
205	205	ening the prohibition on contractors from charging em-
206	206	ployee recruitment fees;
207	207	Whereas, although such laws and regulations are currently in
208	208	force, it is essential to increase public awareness, particu-
209	209	larly among individuals who are most likely to come into
210	210	contact with victims of human trafficking and modern
211	211	slavery, regarding conditions and dynamics of human
212	212	trafficking and modern slavery, precisely because traf-
213	213	fickers use techniques that are designed to severely limit
214	214	self-reporting and evade law enforcement;
215	215	Whereas January 1 is the anniversary of the effective date
216	216	of the Emancipation Proclamation;
217	217	Whereas February 1 is—
218	218	(1) the anniversary of the date on which President
219	219	Abraham Lincoln signed the joint resolution sending the
220	220	13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United
221	221	States to the States for ratification to forever declare,
222	222	‘‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
223	223	punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been
224	224	duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or
225	225	any place subject to their jurisdiction’’; and
226	226	(2) a date that has long been celebrated as National
227	227	Freedom Day, as described in section 124 of title 36,
228	228	United States Code; and
229	229	Whereas, under the authority of Congress to enforce the 13th
230	230	Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ‘‘by
231	231	appropriate legislation’’, Congress, through the Traf-
232	232	ficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101
233	233	et seq.), updated the post-Civil War involuntary servitude
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237	237	and slavery statutes and adopted an approach of victim
238	238	protection, vigorous prosecution, and prevention of
239	239	human trafficking, commonly known as the ‘‘3P’’ ap-
240	240	proach: Now, therefore, be it
241	241	Resolved, That the Senate supports— 1
242	242	(1) observing National Trafficking and Modern 2
243	243	Slavery Prevention Month during the period begin-3
244	244	ning on January 1, 2025, and ending on February 4
245	245	1, 2025, to recognize the vital role that the people 5
246	246	of the United States have in ending human traf-6
247	247	ficking and modern slavery; 7
248	248	(2) marking the observation of National Traf-8
249	249	ficking and Modern Slavery Prevention Month with 9
250	250	appropriate programs and activities, culminating in 10
251	251	the observance on February 1, 2025, of National 11
252	252	Freedom Day, as described in section 124 of title 12
253	253	36, United States Code; 13
254	254	(3) urging continued partnerships with Federal, 14
255	255	State, Tribal, and local agencies, as well as survivors 15
256	256	of human trafficking, social service providers, and 16
257	257	nonprofit organizations to address human trafficking 17
258	258	with a collaborative, victim-centered approach; and 18
259	259	(4) all other efforts to prevent, eradicate, and 19
260	260	raise awareness of, and opposition to, human traf-20
261	261	ficking and modern slavery. 21
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