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Online Advocacy Campaigns
Take a stand against slavery with a few mouse clicks. Our online advocacy campaigns make it easy for you to pressure governments on key issues in order to keep human trafficking on their agenda, keep money out of slaving regimes, and free slaves.
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Sudan
For decades, Sudan has been a particularly brutal hotbed of chattel slavery. The extremist government in the north of the country supports militias which travel to the impoverished south, destroying villages, raping women and girls, and bringing human "booty" — mainly women and children — back to the north as slaves.
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200 years ago, William Wilberforce and his fellow abolitionists collected 390,000 signatures to support the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade - long before the age of email! Help us mark this bicentennial by adding your name to our petition to urge Congress to take meaningful action against slavery in Sudan.
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Calling for the United States to play a larger role in
terminating slavery in Sudan, Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ)
introduced the Eradication of Slavery in Sudan Act of 2006 (HR
5911) in July, which is currently in committee. Urge your elected representatives to support this important legislation. View full text of proposed legislation
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Since the '80s, Sudan has experienced a surge in slavery cases. Despite great effort by the U.S. government to bring about peace, the UN reports that slaves are still being taken in Darfur (an area not covered by peace talks). Demand that the U.S. create a special Task Force to investigate slavery in Sudan. |
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If you hold a pension plan or investments with TIAA-CREF (and even if you don't), take a moment to demand that they respond to one of the most urgent and horrific crises of our time by divesting from a number of international corporations doing business in Sudan. |
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The United Nations should have been the most active body working to stop genocide in Sudan, but thanks to certain members of the Security Council with oil ties to Sudan, the U.N. has remained largely silent. Tell them that the last thing they should be doing is standing idly by. |
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The state of Massachusetts has almost $1.5 billion invested in companies that do business in Sudan, thus supporting the genocide and slave raids there. Sign our petition to get the state government to divest funds which pay for genocide. |
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