Tell Diners Club To Stop Financing Mail Order Brides

The Issue

Diners Club International credit card company has a new promotion: buy a bride with your credit card and pay in interest free installments!
Vietnam Brides International has teamed up with Diners Club to offer a payment plan for the women they sell.  It's bascially a layaway plan for human beings, except you get the "product" before you even make the first payment. 

Human beings should not be bought or sold, and they certainly shouldn't be part of a payment plan, a "blue light special", or a clearance sale.  Mail order brides are not only extremely vulnerable to human trafficking, but also domestic violence, abuse, rape, and exploitation.  While creating a payment plan to purchase a human being is ethically and philosophically disgusting, it also reduces the economic barrier to buying a bride.  Removing that barrier allows traffickers to acquire women using less capital than they needed before.  It opens the door to a new socio-economic class of criminals to buy and exploit these women.  

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Amanda KloerPetition StarterAmanda is a self-professed geek and full-time abolitionist of seven years, which pays about as well as you think it does. She has created reports, documentaries and training materials on human trafficking in the United States and around the world. In 2009, she was awarded the "Best Blogger Ever" award by her mother, who pronounced her work "just wonderful, dear" and presented her with a ceremonial forehead kiss. In addition to creating change via the interwebs, Amanda works on human rights, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, genocide, and LGBT projects for a trade association.
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The Issue

Diners Club International credit card company has a new promotion: buy a bride with your credit card and pay in interest free installments!
Vietnam Brides International has teamed up with Diners Club to offer a payment plan for the women they sell.  It's bascially a layaway plan for human beings, except you get the "product" before you even make the first payment. 

Human beings should not be bought or sold, and they certainly shouldn't be part of a payment plan, a "blue light special", or a clearance sale.  Mail order brides are not only extremely vulnerable to human trafficking, but also domestic violence, abuse, rape, and exploitation.  While creating a payment plan to purchase a human being is ethically and philosophically disgusting, it also reduces the economic barrier to buying a bride.  Removing that barrier allows traffickers to acquire women using less capital than they needed before.  It opens the door to a new socio-economic class of criminals to buy and exploit these women.  

avatar of the starter
Amanda KloerPetition StarterAmanda is a self-professed geek and full-time abolitionist of seven years, which pays about as well as you think it does. She has created reports, documentaries and training materials on human trafficking in the United States and around the world. In 2009, she was awarded the "Best Blogger Ever" award by her mother, who pronounced her work "just wonderful, dear" and presented her with a ceremonial forehead kiss. In addition to creating change via the interwebs, Amanda works on human rights, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, genocide, and LGBT projects for a trade association.

The Decision Makers

Jurgita Simokaityte
Jurgita Simokaityte
Associate Vice President, Citcorp Diners Club
Judith Hilvers
Judith Hilvers
Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Diners Club

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