JANUARY IS NATIONAL SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH Human trafficking is a crime in persons are forced, frauded or coerced to perform labor, services or commercial sex. It affects all populations: adults, children, men, women, foreign nationals and U.S. citizens, and all economic classes. T The United States Senate established National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in 2007 to raise awareness in the United States about human trafficking and national slavery