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Proclamation 10693 of December 29, 2023 

National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 2024 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

More than 27 million people around the world endure the abhorrent abuse 

of human trafficking and forced labor, including thousands of people right 

here in the United States. It is a threat to global security, public safety, 

and human dignity. During National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 

we reaffirm our commitment to ending these predatory crimes at home 

and across the globe. 

In 2021, I signed an updated National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking, outlining my Administration’s efforts to prevent trafficking, prosecute 

perpetrators, and protect survivors. The plan reflects our commitment to 

standing up for the most vulnerable among us, and it is a foundation 

for our work to ensure safe, orderly, and humane migration. Federal agencies 

are today working closely with governments and organizations around the 

world to address the root causes of trafficking, bring traffickers to justice, 

and support survivors as they recover and rebuild their lives. 

The plan also reflects our commitment to workers’ rights and ending forced 

labor in global supply chains. Two years ago, I signed the bipartisan Uyghur 

Forced Labor Prevention Act, and we will continue working with global 

leaders to make sure that American imports are produced without forced 

labor and that the global economic system offers traffickers no safe harbor. 

More recently, I issued a first-ever Presidential Memorandum elevating and 

integrating workers’ rights and high labor standards into our Nation’s foreign 

policy priorities, including preventing forced labor and other abuses. 

The vast majority of human trafficking victims are women and girls. In 

2022, we reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act, which I first wrote 

as a United States Senator some 30 years ago—this time expanding the 

jurisdiction of Tribal courts to prosecute non-Native American sex traffickers. 

The American Rescue Plan also provided tens of thousands of housing 

vouchers to help people fleeing domestic violence or human trafficking 

find a safe home and reclaim their lives. As we work to help people 

disproportionately affected by human trafficking, including members of racial 

and ethnic minorities, women and girls, the LGBTQI+ community, and 

migrants, we remain committed to learning from and partnering with survivors to support their recoveries and to recruit their help in better spotting 

and preventing these too often overlooked crimes. 

There is no greater sin than the abuse of power, and human trafficking 

is among the worst abuses that exist. We must each play a role in ending 

it; we cannot turn away. This month, we urge every American to learn 

how to identify the signs of trafficking and to share the National Human 

Trafficking hotline (888–373–7888)—an important resource to report a tip 

or to ask for help. Together, we must make sure every human being is 

free to live a life full of dignity and respect. 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., 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 2024 as 

National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. I call upon businesses, civil 

society organizations, communities of faith, families, and all Americans to 


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recognize the vital role we play in combating human trafficking and to 

observe this month with appropriate programs and activities aimed at 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 twenty-three, and 

of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 

and forty-eighth. 

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