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Washington, DC - Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State: Today marks National Freedom Day, a day that commemorates President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the joint resolution that established the Constitution’s 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in the United States. It is a day when, thanks to the decades-long push of Richard R. Wright and his fellow civil rights advocates, we commemorate our dedication to the ideal of freedom for all. National Freedom Day also marks the culmination of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. More than 150 years after President Lincoln’s promise of freedom, an estimated 24.9 million individuals around the world are exploited by human traffickers. Our nation struggles to overcome the consequences of both the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the ensuing campaigns of oppression against newly freed people and their descendants.
ALBANY, N.Y. â Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon announced her office, together with federal, state, and local law enforcement, has launched a law enforcement task force focused on combating human trafficking.
The task force is comprised of members from the United States Attorneyâs Office; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Homeland Security Investigations; Drug Enforcement Administration; New York State Police; the Police Departments of Albany, Colonie, Rotterdam, Schenectady, Troy; Sherriffâs Offices of the Counties Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, and Ulster; Rensselaer County Probation Department; and the Offices of the District Attorneys of Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady, and Saratoga Counties. The United States Attorneyâs Office plans to expand the task force to cover all 32 counties it serves.
I Escaped. Now I m Using My Voice for Victims Trafficked to the U.S.
It’s National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month, it’s vital that we all do our part to end human trafficking.
Pulcherie Kindoho
I spent more than four years living in the shadows as a victim of human trafficking. America may have outlawed slavery a century and a half ago, but there is still a frightening underground network of labor and sex trafficking in this country, even in the most unassuming communities.
I grew up in West Africa in a loving family, but my parents struggled to make ends meet. To us, Europe and America were places of prosperity and opportunity. I was 19 years old when, in 1999, a family friend asked me to go to Paris with her to help her with hair braiding. I was excited; I had never been out of West Africa before, and I was hopeful that I would be able to make money that I could send back to my family.
The vast repair work to be undertaken by the Biden administration offers an opportunity to build forward in new ways, including changes to how and where combating human trafficking is operationalized both in terms of diplomacy and development. A relatively easy first step would be to reinstitute the fourth “P” abandoned by the Donald J. Trump administration (in more ways than one): partnership. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton introduced the concept of partnership in recognition of the collaboration needed to reduce and then eradicate human trafficking and modern slavery. Another obvious step will be to quickly nominate the candidate for the ambassador-at-large position at the State Department so that she or he can get confirmed and help oversee the annual report.
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