President Barack Obama pronounced January as the National Human Trafficking and Prevention month. The month is organized to make the U.S. more aware of the illegal trade. This crime endangers millions of people around the globe and its victims are women, men, and children of all ages. No country is exempt from the tragedy of modern slavery.
In Obama’s Proclamation, he wrote, “President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation – a document that reaffirmed the noble goals of equality and freedom for all that lie at the heart of what it means to live in America. In the years since, we have tirelessly pursued the realization and protection of these essential principles. Yet, despite our successes, thousands of individuals living in the United States and still more abroad suffer in silence under the intolerable yoke of modern slavery.” January 11, is declared by Congress as National Human Trafficking day.
