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| 2025 -- H 5060 Enacted 01/15/2025 |
| 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 |
| 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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