Raise Awareness About Human Trafficking

Raise Awareness About Human Trafficking

The Issue

Human trafficking is an international affront to human rights and the rule of law. We cannot continue to look the other way while people, particularly young women and children, are being "disappeared," terrorized, raped, and murdered daily. We must raise international awareness about this issue--it must become part of our serious discourse, like the economy or the war in Iraq. Anything we can do about this helps: read a book about human trafficking and if it inspires you to act or if it's enlightening, recommend it to friends. Host a viewing at your place of a documentary about human trafficking. This excellent blog has a list of books and films about human trafficking. Organize a forum (or even an organization) at your school. Volunteer with a non-profit committed to human rights, ending human trafficking, and/or fair trade. Write letters to your local newspaper editors and let them know your community cares about this. Sign petitions. Posts articles about this issue on your personal site (i.e. Facebook). Any action is a step towards emnacipation.

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D WPetition StarterThere is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confused with some obvious evidence...it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half-truths. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks...The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know." - Rachel Carson
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The Issue

Human trafficking is an international affront to human rights and the rule of law. We cannot continue to look the other way while people, particularly young women and children, are being "disappeared," terrorized, raped, and murdered daily. We must raise international awareness about this issue--it must become part of our serious discourse, like the economy or the war in Iraq. Anything we can do about this helps: read a book about human trafficking and if it inspires you to act or if it's enlightening, recommend it to friends. Host a viewing at your place of a documentary about human trafficking. This excellent blog has a list of books and films about human trafficking. Organize a forum (or even an organization) at your school. Volunteer with a non-profit committed to human rights, ending human trafficking, and/or fair trade. Write letters to your local newspaper editors and let them know your community cares about this. Sign petitions. Posts articles about this issue on your personal site (i.e. Facebook). Any action is a step towards emnacipation.

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D WPetition StarterThere is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confused with some obvious evidence...it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half-truths. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks...The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know." - Rachel Carson
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Petition created on January 20, 2009