2011
President Obama declared January to be Human Trafficking Awareness month, and Jan. 11, 2011 was named National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. On this day, various individual, as well as group events took place in an attempt to increase awareness about human trafficking among the general public. The Alliance to End Human Trafficking, an anti trafficking coalition, began a campaign to ask the government to take a serious look at trafficking by renewing the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. The goal was not only to increase awareness, but to initiate action as well (Kloer).