City of Milwaukee - File #: 171285

• File #: 171285
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 11/28/2017
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 12/19/2017
• Title: Resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee’s condemnation of the slave trade in Libya and urging the United States government to take the steps necessary to eradicate this practice.
• Sponsors: ALD. RAINEY, ALD. COGGS, ALD. HAMILTON, ALD. STAMPER, ALD. KOVAC, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. WITKOWSKI, ALD. PEREZ, ALD. JOHNSON, ALD. BORKOWSKI, ALD. LEWIS
• Indexes: FEDERAL LEGISLATION, SOCIAL CONDITIONS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
1/2/2018	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
12/19/2017	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED; Minutes note: Ald. Lewis added as Co-sponsor. There were no objections.	Pass	15:0
12/11/2017	0	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added
12/11/2017	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Appearing: Ald. Kalif Rainey Sponsor The following council members asked to also be added as co-sponsors: Hamilton, Stamper, Kovac. and also all Public Safety and Health commttee members, there were no objections.	Pass	5:0
12/6/2017	0	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Ald. Coggs
11/28/2017	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
171285
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. RAINEY, COGGS, HAMILTON, STAMPER, II, KOVAC, BAUMAN, WITKOWSKI, PEREZ, JOHNSON, BORKOWSKI AND LEWIS
Title
Resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee’s condemnation of the slave trade in Libya and urging the United States government to take the steps necessary to eradicate this practice.
Analysis
This resolution expresses the City of Milwaukee’s condemnation of the slave trade in Libya and urges the United States government to take the steps necessary to eradicate this practice.
Body
Whereas, In November, 2017, CNN published cellphone and hidden-camera footage from slave auctions conducted in Libya showing West African migrants being sold as merchandise by smugglers operating in illicit trafficking networks; and

Whereas, Al Jazeera reports that hundreds of African refugees are being bought and sold in slave markets across Libya every week, with many of them held for ransom or forced into sexual exploitation to pay their captors and smugglers, and many of them being murdered by their smugglers in the open desert or dying from thirst or car accidents in the Libyan desert; and

Whereas, The refugees and migrants are smuggled into Libya from West African nations by a network of criminal gangs on the promise of reaching European shores, and many of the refugees and migrants are forced to live in either open courtyards or ramshackle rooms without proper sanitation; and

Whereas, Ever since collapse of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi in 2011, the country has become the focal point of regional smuggling networks; and

Whereas, For the fourth year in a row, more than 3,000 migrants or refugees have drowned annually in the Mediterranean Sea; and

Whereas, A United Nations human rights report in September warned of “the hidden human calamity” taking place along Libya’s coast, documenting accounts of migrants being robbed, raped, and murdered; and

Whereas, Libya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has b...