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Whereas the International Labor Organization estimates that 
at any given time 12,300,000 adults and children live in 
conditions of forced labor and sexual servitude and that 
1,390,000 
persons 
are 
victims 
of 
national 
and 
transnational sex trafficking; 
Whereas it is estimated that between 600,000 and 800,000 
victims are trafficked through international borders every 
year and millions more are trafficked domestically within 
their own countries; 
Whereas according to the Report to Congress from Attorney 
General John Ashcroft on U.S. Government Efforts to 
Combat Trafficking in Persons in Fiscal Year 2003, each 
year an estimated 14,500 to 17,500 foreign nationals are 
trafficked into the United States with the largest number 
of people trafficked into the United States coming from 
East Asia and the Pacific and the next highest numbers 
coming from Latin America, Europe, and Eurasia; 
Whereas these numbers pale in comparison to the number of 
persons trafficked within the United States each year, 
with an estimated 200,000 children in the United States 
at risk for trafficking into the sex industry; 
Whereas 56 percent of victims of modern day slavery and 
trafficking are women and children because traffickers 
prey on those who suffer most from gender discrimina-
tion, family violence, and a lack of access to education 
and economic opportunity; 
Whereas human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal 
enterprise in the 21st century generating revenues in ex-
cess of $9,000,000,000 and ranking second, after drug 
smuggling and tying with arms dealing, in organized 
crime activities; 
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•HRES 929 IH 
Whereas as the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report of 
the United States Department of State indicates, human 
trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat in that it de-
prives people of their human rights and freedoms, in-
creases global health risks, and fuels the growth of orga-
nized crime; 
Whereas the United States, Japan, and Australia are the top 
three destination points for trafficked victims, although 
human trafficking is prevalent throughout the world and 
has been found to exist in at least 175 countries; and 
Whereas there remains a stark disparity between the large 
global problem of trafficking in persons and the low num-
bers of prosecutions and convictions of forced labor traf-
ficking crimes (less than 10 percent of all convictions): 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the International Day for the 
Abolition of Slavery and the 60th anniversary of the 
adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of 
the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in 
Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution 
of Others; 
(2) encourages member states of the United 
Nations and international organizations to devote 
additional resources to apprehend, prosecute, and 
punish persons engaged in human trafficking and to 
detect, disrupt, and dismantle criminal enterprises 
organized for that purpose; 
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•HRES 929 IH 
(3) commends the efforts of domestic and inter-
national nongovernmental organizations to expose, 
prevent, and document all forms of modern day slav-
ery and human trafficking and to assist victims re-
integrate into society; 
(4) commends the Frederick Douglass Family 
Foundation for preserving the legacy of Frederick 
Douglass by continuing his struggle for freedom and 
human dignity for all persons and seeking to abolish 
all forms of modern-day slavery and trafficking in 
persons; 
(5) encourages the people of the United States 
to observe the International Day for the Abolition of 
Slavery by participating in activities designed to 
heighten public awareness of the prevalence of 
human trafficking and commends the example of 
children engaged in such projects under the auspices 
of the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation at the 
following schools, Brentwood School of Los Angeles, 
California, Las Vegas Area School of Las Vegas, 
Nevada, North Lawndale College Preparatory Char-
ter High School of Chicago, Illinois, Booker T. 
Washington High School of Atlanta, Georgia, Roo-
sevelt Middle School of New Bedford, Massachu-
setts, New Era Academy of Baltimore, Maryland, 
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•HRES 929 IH 
Edmund Burke School of Washington, DC, Fred-
erick Douglass Academy IV, and the United Nations 
International School of New York, New York, and 
Wilson Foundation Academy of Rochester, New 
York; 
(6) urges all members of the international com-
munity to redouble their efforts to and renew their 
resolve to eradicate modern-day slavery and the 
practice of trafficking in persons from the face of 
the earth; and 
(7) requests the Clerk of the House to transmit 
an enrolled copy of this resolution to the principals 
of each of the schools listed in resolved (5) and to 
the Chairman of the Board of the Frederick Doug-
lass Family Foundation. 
Æ 
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