Please Call Your Assembly Members and Help Pass TVPJA!
Did you know that in New York State, sex trafficking is a NON-violent felony? That means, among other things, that buyers who purchase the bodies of children are given a mere slap on the wrist. You can change this by calling on your New York State representatives to pass the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act this legislative session, which ends on June 19, 2014.
As of June 12, 2014, the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act has been passed by the New York State Senate, but it has yet to be passed by the New York State Assembly. Call Speaker Sheldon Silver and your local Assembly Member today, and ask them to support the TVPJA (which is listed as A.2240D).
Speaker Silver can be reached at (212) 312 1420 or 518 455 3971, and the name and phone number of your local Assembly Member can be found by entering your address here.
United States: Address Role of U.S. Military in Fueling Global Sex Trafficking.
It is widely acknowledged that where there is a large military presence, there will be a significant and concurrent growth of the commercial sex industry and trafficking of women and girls into the industry. Such was the case of Alma, one of the many women exploited in the Philippines by servicemen stationed at the nearby U.S. military base. While Alma was able to escape this life and now advocates on behalf of other women and girls, the trafficking and exploitation of women and girls by U.S. troops stationed abroad continues to this day in the Philippines and elsewhere. In recognition of the link between the demand for commercial sex and sex trafficking, in 2005 the U.S. government explicitly banned U.S. service members from purchasing commercial sex. However, while news articles and reports from our partners indicate that U.S. troops continue to visit brothels, few are prosecuted for buying sex.
Please join us in calling on the U.S. government to enforce the military provision banning the purchase of commercial sex and affirm its commitment to combating the demand for commercial sex that fuels sex trafficking. Doing so would help ensure the United States lives up to its national and international commitments to prevent the sex trafficking and exploitation of women and girls around the world.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6208/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13106
Please click on the following link for further information:
http://www.equalitynow.org/take_action/sex_trafficking_action481
Source – Equality NOW
Did you know that in New York State, sex trafficking is a NON-violent felony? That means, among other things, that buyers who purchase the bodies of children are given a mere slap on the wrist. You can change this by calling on your New York State representatives to pass the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act this legislative session, which ends on June 19, 2014.
As of June 12, 2014, the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act has been passed by the New York State Senate, but it has yet to be passed by the New York State Assembly. Call Speaker Sheldon Silver and your local Assembly Member today, and ask them to support the TVPJA (which is listed as A.2240D).
Speaker Silver can be reached at (212) 312 1420 or 518 455 3971, and the name and phone number of your local Assembly Member can be found by entering your address here.
United States: Address Role of U.S. Military in Fueling Global Sex Trafficking.
It is widely acknowledged that where there is a large military presence, there will be a significant and concurrent growth of the commercial sex industry and trafficking of women and girls into the industry. Such was the case of Alma, one of the many women exploited in the Philippines by servicemen stationed at the nearby U.S. military base. While Alma was able to escape this life and now advocates on behalf of other women and girls, the trafficking and exploitation of women and girls by U.S. troops stationed abroad continues to this day in the Philippines and elsewhere. In recognition of the link between the demand for commercial sex and sex trafficking, in 2005 the U.S. government explicitly banned U.S. service members from purchasing commercial sex. However, while news articles and reports from our partners indicate that U.S. troops continue to visit brothels, few are prosecuted for buying sex.
Please join us in calling on the U.S. government to enforce the military provision banning the purchase of commercial sex and affirm its commitment to combating the demand for commercial sex that fuels sex trafficking. Doing so would help ensure the United States lives up to its national and international commitments to prevent the sex trafficking and exploitation of women and girls around the world.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6208/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13106
Please click on the following link for further information:
http://www.equalitynow.org/take_action/sex_trafficking_action481
Source – Equality NOW
Tell Village Voice Media to Stop Child Sex Trafficking on Backpage.com
Via Change.org:
Sex trafficking of girls and boys on Backpage.com, owned by Village Voice Media, is becoming a disturbing trend. A Georgia man was arrested for pimping two 17-year-old girls around the Nashville area. Detectives responded to a suspicious ad on Backpage.com and drove to a motel. There, they found the teens and their 37-year-old pimp, as well as a laptop computer, likely used for the online advertising. Just four days prior to that, four people in Denver were arrested for forcing a teen girl into prostitution. They also advertised her sexual services, including semi-nude pictures, on Backpage. And last year, a South Dakota couple was arrested for selling underage girls for sex on …. wait for it … Backpage.com yet again.
Village Voice Media has a moral responsibility to ensure that young girls and boys aren’t being abused in the commercial sex industry with help from their website. Now, a rising movement of people of many faiths and backgrounds, motivated by their shared moral convictions, are taking action to end this practice. Please join us in demanding that Village Voice Media – Backpage.com’s parent company – stop selling ads that others use to sell minors on Backpage.com by shutting down the Adult section of the website.
Sign the Petition NOW!
Read the bombshell article by Nick Kristof in the New York Times, who profiled a survivor of child sex trafficking who was sold on Backpage.com repeatedly, and on the horrifying news of a Long Island gang who abducted and abused a 15-year old girl, selling her for sex via Backpage.com, according to court documents and press accounts.
Via Change.org:
Sex trafficking of girls and boys on Backpage.com, owned by Village Voice Media, is becoming a disturbing trend. A Georgia man was arrested for pimping two 17-year-old girls around the Nashville area. Detectives responded to a suspicious ad on Backpage.com and drove to a motel. There, they found the teens and their 37-year-old pimp, as well as a laptop computer, likely used for the online advertising. Just four days prior to that, four people in Denver were arrested for forcing a teen girl into prostitution. They also advertised her sexual services, including semi-nude pictures, on Backpage. And last year, a South Dakota couple was arrested for selling underage girls for sex on …. wait for it … Backpage.com yet again.
Village Voice Media has a moral responsibility to ensure that young girls and boys aren’t being abused in the commercial sex industry with help from their website. Now, a rising movement of people of many faiths and backgrounds, motivated by their shared moral convictions, are taking action to end this practice. Please join us in demanding that Village Voice Media – Backpage.com’s parent company – stop selling ads that others use to sell minors on Backpage.com by shutting down the Adult section of the website.
Sign the Petition NOW!
Read the bombshell article by Nick Kristof in the New York Times, who profiled a survivor of child sex trafficking who was sold on Backpage.com repeatedly, and on the horrifying news of a Long Island gang who abducted and abused a 15-year old girl, selling her for sex via Backpage.com, according to court documents and press accounts.
Urge NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly to Act Swiftly to End Demand in NYC
A CALL TO MEN is committed to ending sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. We, along with ManUp and other leaders working to end sex trafficking have come to realize that the way to stop and prevent this human rights crisis is by ending demand.
Thanks to vigorous advocacy, New York now has a strong, comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation. The State’s 2007 Anti-Trafficking Law and 2008 Safe Harbor Act impose high criminal penalties against both traffickers and johns and include provisions for enhanced victim services. Despite these landmark legislations and growing public awareness about sex trafficking, little has changed in New York City. In New York City, over twice as many people in prostitution –many of whom are victims of sex trafficking –are arrested than the johns, pimps, and facilitators who exploit them
Instead of arresting sex industry buyers, our law enforcement system is revictimizing the victims by arresting trafficked and prostituted women and girls, leaving the pimps and johns free to prey on the most vulnerable women and girls among us.
Men who buy the bodies of women and girls in prostitution are the economic engine of this multi-billion dollar industry. We are collectively calling on the NYPD to help end demand in New York City by holding sex industry buyers accountable.
Sign the Petition!
A CALL TO MEN is committed to ending sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. We, along with ManUp and other leaders working to end sex trafficking have come to realize that the way to stop and prevent this human rights crisis is by ending demand.
Thanks to vigorous advocacy, New York now has a strong, comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation. The State’s 2007 Anti-Trafficking Law and 2008 Safe Harbor Act impose high criminal penalties against both traffickers and johns and include provisions for enhanced victim services. Despite these landmark legislations and growing public awareness about sex trafficking, little has changed in New York City. In New York City, over twice as many people in prostitution –many of whom are victims of sex trafficking –are arrested than the johns, pimps, and facilitators who exploit them
Instead of arresting sex industry buyers, our law enforcement system is revictimizing the victims by arresting trafficked and prostituted women and girls, leaving the pimps and johns free to prey on the most vulnerable women and girls among us.
Men who buy the bodies of women and girls in prostitution are the economic engine of this multi-billion dollar industry. We are collectively calling on the NYPD to help end demand in New York City by holding sex industry buyers accountable.
Sign the Petition!