Biden proclaims January 2025 National Human Trafficking Prevention Month

President Joe Biden proclaimed January 2025 as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month on December 30, 2024. The proclamation said trafficking includes forced labor and sex trafficking, highlighted the administration's 2021 National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking, and urged Americans to learn the warning signs and share the National Human Trafficking Hotline. It also connected trafficking prevention to worker protections, survivor support, anti-forced-labor enforcement, and sanctions against human-rights abusers. The action mattered because presidential proclamations do not prosecute traffickers by themselves, but they can direct public attention, reinforce agency priorities, and connect federal anti-trafficking work to public reporting and survivor services.