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| 2024 -- S 2135 Enacted 01/18/2024 |
| S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N |
| COMMEMORATING JANUARY OF 2024, AS "RHODE ISLAND SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND |
Introduced By: Senators E Morgan, Zurier, F. Lombardi, Felag, and Britto |
| Date Introduced: January 18, 2024 |
| WHEREAS, Human trafficking, as recognized and defined by the United Nations in the |
| "Trafficking Protocol" is the "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of |
| persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of |
| deception,…for the purpose of exploitation." Exploitation can include forced prostitution and |
| other forms of sexual exploitation as well as forced labor. Women and children are particularly |
| vulnerable to being exploited in these ways; and |
| WHEREAS, It is estimated that approximately 50 million people are currently the |
| victims of human trafficking and are being used as slaves in some capacity. The International |
| Labour Office (ILO), estimates that human trafficking generates approximately $150 billion |
| dollars in profit; and |
| WHEREAS, In January of 2018, National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention |
| Month was first observed and more than $45 million was contributed to the Global Fund to End |
| Modern Slavery, which provided for enhanced collaboration amongst nations and their law |
| enforcement and other community and business organizations in order to dismantle transnational |
| criminal organizations that are involved in human trafficking activities. In 2021, more than $80 |
| million was raised; now, therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby commemorates |
| January of 2024, as "National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month" in the State of |
| Rhode Island; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, Joseph R. |
| Biden, Jr., the Governor of the State of Rhode Island, Daniel McKee, and the Secretary-General |
| of the United Nations, António Guterres. |
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