WEST CHESTER, PA_ This January, West Chester illuminates Nationwide Human Trafficking Consciousness and Prevention Month with a pillar of blue gentle in Borough Corridor.
“The blue gentle represents the struggling of the victims and the frozen hearts of the traffickers,” mentioned Mayor Lillian DeBaptiste.
“It additionally honors the work of regulation enforcement companies working to deliver justice to victims of human trafficking, a type of slavery.”
President Barack Obama first declared January as Nationwide Slavery and Trafficking Consciousness Month, together with Nationwide Trafficking Consciousness Day on January 11, 2012.
In line with the U.S. State Division, yearly since then, each U.S. President has devoted the bear to consciousness and training to forestall crime.
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