Presidential Document2024-00052
National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 2024
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Published
January 4, 2024
Signed
December 29, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 3 (Thursday, January 4, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 443-444]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00052]
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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 3 / Thursday, January 4, 2024 /
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Proclamation 10693 of December 29, 2023
National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
More than 27 million people around the world endure the
abhorrent abuse of human trafficking and forced labor,
including thousands of people right here in the United
States. It is a threat to global security, public
safety, and human dignity. During National Human
Trafficking Prevention Month, we reaffirm our
commitment to ending these predatory crimes at home and
across the globe.
In 2021, I signed an updated National Action Plan to
Combat Human Trafficking, outlining my Administration's
efforts to prevent trafficking, prosecute perpetrators,
and protect survivors. The plan reflects our commitment
to standing up for the most vulnerable among us, and it
is a foundation for our work to ensure safe, orderly,
and humane migration. Federal agencies are today
working closely with governments and organizations
around the world to address the root causes of
trafficking, bring traffickers to justice, and support
survivors as they recover and rebuild their lives.
The plan also reflects our commitment to workers'
rights and ending forced labor in global supply chains.
Two years ago, I signed the bipartisan Uyghur Forced
Labor Prevention Act, and we will continue working with
global leaders to make sure that American imports are
produced without forced labor and that the global
economic system offers traffickers no safe harbor. More
recently, I issued a first-ever Presidential Memorandum
elevating and integrating workers' rights and high
labor standards into our Nation's foreign policy
priorities, including preventing forced labor and other
abuses.
The vast majority of human trafficking victims are
women and girls. In 2022, we reauthorized the Violence
Against Women Act, which I first wrote as a United
States Senator some 30 years ago--this time expanding
the jurisdiction of Tribal courts to prosecute non-
Native American sex traffickers. The American Rescue
Plan also provided tens of thousands of housing
vouchers to help people fleeing domestic violence or
human trafficking find a safe home and reclaim their
lives. As we work to help people disproportionately
affected by human trafficking, including members of
racial and ethnic minorities, women and girls, the
LGBTQI+ community, and migrants, we remain committed to
learning from and partnering with survivors to support
their recoveries and to recruit their help in better
spotting and preventing these too often overlooked
crimes.
There is no greater sin than the abuse of power, and
human trafficking is among the worst abuses that exist.
We must each play a role in ending it; we cannot turn
away. This month, we urge every American to learn how
to identify the signs of trafficking and to share the
National Human Trafficking hotline (888-373-7888)--an
important resource to report a tip or to ask for help.
Together, we must make sure every human being is free
to live a life full of dignity and respect.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 2024
as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. I call
upon businesses, civil society organizations,
communities of faith, families, and all Americans to
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recognize the vital role we play in combating human
trafficking and to observe this month with appropriate
programs and activities aimed at preventing all forms
of human trafficking.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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