President Donald J. Trump Proclaims January 2018 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we recommit ourselves to eradicating the evil of enslavement. Human trafficking is a modern form of the oldest and most barbaric type of exploitation. It has no place in our world. This month we do not simply reflect on this appalling reality. We also pledge to do all in our power to end the horrific practice of human trafficking that plagues innocent victims around the world.
Human trafficking is a sickening crime at odds with our very humanity. An estimated 25 million people are currently victims of human trafficking for both sex and labor. Human traffickers prey on their victims by promising a life of hope and greater opportunity, while delivering only enslavement. Instead of delivering people to better lives, traffickers unjustifiably profit from the labor and toil of their victims, who they force — through violence and intimidation — to work in brothels and factories, on farms and fishing vessels, in private homes, and in countless industries.
My Administration continues to work to drive out the darkness human traffickers cast upon our world. In February, I signed an Executive Order to dismantle transnational criminal organizations, including those that perpetuate the crime of human trafficking. My Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons has enhanced collaboration with other nations, businesses, civil society organizations, and survivors of human trafficking. The Department of Health and Human Services has established a new national training and technical assistance center to strengthen our healthcare industry’s anti-trafficking response. The Department of State has contributed $25 million to the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, because of the critical need for cross-nation collaborative action to counter human trafficking. The Department of Labor has released an innovative, business-focused mobile app that supports private-sector efforts to eradicate forced labor from global supply chains. And this month, I will sign into law S. 1536, the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act and S. 1532, the No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act. These bills will keep those who commit trafficking offenses from operating commercial vehicles, improve anti-human trafficking coordination within Federal agencies and across State and local governments, and improve efforts to recognize, prevent, and report human trafficking.
In addition to these governmental actions, Americans must learn how to identify and combat the evil of enslavement. This is especially important for those who are most likely to encounter the perpetrators of slavery and their victims, including healthcare providers, educators, law enforcement officials, and social services professionals. Through the Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign, all Americans can learn to recognize the signs of human trafficking and how to report suspected instances. By taking steps to become familiar with the telltale signs of traffickers or the signals of their victims, Americans can save innocent lives.
Our Nation is and will forever be a place that values and protects human life and dignity. This month, let us redouble our efforts to ensure that modern day slavery comes to its long overdue end.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, 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 2018 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, culminating in the annual celebration of National Freedom Day on February 1, 2018. I call upon industry associations, law enforcement, private businesses, faith-based and other organizations of civil society, schools, families, and all Americans to recognize our vital roles in ending all forms of modern slavery and to observe this month with appropriate programs and activities aimed at ending and 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 seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-second.
DONALD J. TRUMP
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FE_Rebekah ago
Yeah, let’s have a month and maybe a pretty colored ribbon and a hashtag and turn it into a marketing tool 🙄. If this is what Americans need to care about child trafficking, fuck it. Just fuck this whole entire country.
carmencita ago
No one is going to do that, at least not us here on vote. We are not for turning this into a Carnival Event. It is being done to draw attention to the horrors of human trafficking. It is that simple.
FE_Rebekah ago
I know that carmencita. I’ve been on and off Voat because as a victim of CSA myself, it gets too hard sometimes to deal with the complicit. Plus some of the shills running this place. But I recognize your user name, and I believe you to be a real person on here who truly cares. I’m just discouraged right now. I can’t even get my own family and friends to care right now, and I don’t have a lot of hope that the masses are gonna stop posting cat videos and being hypnotized by the complete garbage they program us with.
We could do this if people woke up, but like Nietzsche said, “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
Big hugs to you..
shoosh ago
Your Nietzsche quote is the sad realization that confronts my daily observations. Programming on other levels is so intense to the point that observably folks are addicts walking around - addicted to various shit that passes for shinola.
Many of us folks are dealing with the financial slavery system, and not well I might add. It makes me wonder if the human trafficking slavery is throwing the dog a bone to shut it up while that dog keeps its head down in many other forms of financial-life slavery.
Even those who claim to be enlightening folks are presenting videos or articles that keep the world programmed in the name of awakening them with information.
But it all boils down to your Nietzche line; people don't want their game destroyed. They throw the dog a bone, or a cat video.