| Rose DesRochers
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| | thousands of persons are trafficked into
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| Your Nike shoes that cost you 150 dollar
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| | the US and are held under slave like
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| and your 70 dollar pair of Levi Strauss
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| | conditions. This is a gross and
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| jeans were most likely made by a young
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| | escalating human rights violation and a
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| person from the age of 5-14 living in
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| | worldwide problem that must be addressed
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| Indonesia, Honduras, China or Haiti. They
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| | in the US, even as the US government
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| are forced to work with no benefits, low
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| | continues to fight it on the
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| wages, long hours, and unsanitary
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| | international front. I therefore ask you
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| conditions. They are basically slaves.
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| | to support the Bill S.2449 by Senator
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| Some factory management assault, rape,
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| | Wellstone to combat trafficking of women
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| and abuse the workers.
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| | and children. The Trafficking Victims Act
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| Children are the majority that dies from
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| | 2000 strikes at a domestic and
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| this immoral exploitation. According to
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| | international problem which has been
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| Children are forced to work up to 15
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| | neglected for too long. In a recent
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| hours a day, seven days a week in
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| | report on trafficking, the CIA estimated
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| factories and in fields. These children
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| | that every year more than 50,000 women
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| are deprived of schooling, beaten,
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| | and children are brought to the United
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| sexually abused, engorged and forced to
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| | States and are forced to work as
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| work in dangerous unsanitary conditions.
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| | prostitutes, forced laborers or servants.
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| The children are sold to employers who
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| | Worldwide, trafficking affects up to 2
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| pay families for the use of their child.
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| | million persons each year. This is a
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| 211 million children from the ages of
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| | gross human rights violation.
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| 5-14 work worldwide in sweatshops. The
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| | The Bill S.2449 by Senator Paul Wellstone
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| U.S. government estimated that, 50,000 to
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| | aims to prevent trafficking in persons,
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| 100,000 each year women and children are
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| | provide protection and assistance to
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| trafficked in the United States, half of
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| | those who have been trafficked, and
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| which are trafficked into domestic
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| | punish those responsible for trafficking.
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| servitude and sweatshop labors from
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| | It will ensure that the State Department
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| various countries. Trafficking is a
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| | and U.S. law enforcement agencies are
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| slavery-like practice that must be
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| | fully engaged in the issue, that our
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| eliminated. Trafficking in women and
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| | immigration laws do not encourage rapid
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| children is now considered the third
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| | deportation of victims, and that
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| largest source of profits for organized
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| | trafficking victims receive needed
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| crime, behind only drugs and guns," An
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| | services and safe shelter. In addition,
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| estimated 200,000 Bangladeshi women have
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| | the Bill toughens criminal penalties, and
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| been trafficked to Pakistan over the last
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| | provides substantial resources to
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| 10 years, the majority being young women.
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| | programs assisting victims at home and
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| According to a Press Release March 2005
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| | abroad.
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| With an estimated 600,000-800,000 people
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| | I urgently ask you to sign on as a
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| trafficked worldwide in 2004 alone, human
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| | co-sponsor for Senator Wellstone's Bill
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| trafficking is a $5.7 billion a year
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| | and to vote in favor of it.
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| industry
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| | Sincerely,
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| The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
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| | Your Name
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| urges you to take the following actions:
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| | Your Address
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| "Help End Sweatshop Practices" Action
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| | Free the Children is an international
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| Alert on
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| | network of children helping children at a
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| US Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN), a
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| | local, national and international level
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| member of the Senate Foreign Relations
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| | through representation, leadership and
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| Committee, introduced a comprehensive
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| | action.
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| legislation to tackle the violations of
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| | Sweatshops.org
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| human rights in the context of the
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| | Co-op America's Sweatshops.org aims to
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| trafficking of persons, particularly
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| | end sweatshops and child labor; supports
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| women and children, for purposes of
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| | fair trade, international human and labor
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| forced labor and sexual exploitation.
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| | rights.
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| Please send the following message to your
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| | Download "Ending Public Subsidies of
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| state representative asking him or her to
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| | Sweatshop Abuses: A Guide to 'Sweatfree'
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| support the Trafficking Victims
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| | Procurement Laws," a manual by the group
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| Protection Act of 2000. To review the
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| | No More Sweatshops!
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| Act, go to; and type in the following
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| | Children are being stripped of their
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| Bill Number: S. 2449.
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| | rights and forced to work long hours in
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| Dear NAME OF YOUR SENATOR HERE:
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| | harsh sweatshop conditions for wages of
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| I write to you as a concerned citizen and
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| | 20-30ยข an hour. It's time to work
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| I am asking for your support. Each year
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| | together and end child labor.
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