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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

COMMEMORATING JANUARY OF 2025, AS "RHODE ISLAND SLAVERY AND HUMAN

TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

     Introduced By: Representatives Roberts, Chippendale, Quattrocchi, Santucci, Newberry,
Place, Paplauskas, Nardone, Read, and Blazejewski

     Date Introduced: January 15, 2025

     Referred To: House read and passed

     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 27.6 million people are currently the victims of human

trafficking worldwide and are being used as slaves in some capacity. The International Labour

Office (ILO), estimates that human trafficking generates approximately $236 billion dollars in

profit; and

     WHEREAS, National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month was first

observed in January, 2018 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 2024, more than $75

million was raised; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island hereby

commemorates January of 2025, 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, Donald

Trump, the Governor of the State of Rhode Island, Daniel McKee, and the Secretary-General of

the United Nations, António Guterres.

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