Anti-Trafficking Dates

• January: National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
• January 1: President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, proclaiming the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion
• January 11: National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
• February 1: National Freedom Day
• February 20: World Day of Social Justice
• March: Women’s History Month
• March 8: International Women’s Day
• March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• April: National Child Abuse Prevention Month
• April: Sexual Assault Awareness Month
• April 16: Emancipation Day (Washington, DC)
• April: National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
• May 1: May Day aka International Workers’ Day aka Labour Day
• June 4: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
• June 12: World Day Against Child Labour
• June 19: Juneteenth (remembering when Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation and freed all remaining slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865; observed in half the country, including NY)
• August 23: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
• First Monday of September: Labor Day
• September 22, 1862: President Abraham Lincoln’s announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation
• October: Domestic Violence Awareness Month
• October 15: International Day of Rural Women
• October 18: Anti-Trafficking Day (European Union) and Anti-Slavery Day (United Kingdom)
• November 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
• December 2: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
• December 6: The United States adopted the 13th Amendment, outlawing slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime, on December 6, 1865
• December 10: International Human Rights Day
• December 18: International Migrants Day