SEX TRAFFICKING is the systematic and organized transport of women and children for the purpose of sex for profit. Whether domestic or international, sex trafficking subject women and children to grave abuse, slavery and exploitation.
The growing global sex trade that preys upon women and children, needs immediate action.
The Purple Rose Campaign is a massive global campaign to expose and fight sex trafficking and its perpetrators. The Purple Rose Campaign shall bring together the broadest number of individuals for awareness-raising and mass actions, worldwide,against the global sex trade.
There are at least 75,000 Filipinas working in Japan as dancers, entertainers or commercial sex workers .
In 1995, at least 150 Filipinas were reported to have been sold for sex in Nigeria.
In 1993, a total of 19,396 Filipinas are scattered in the United States, Japan, Australia, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom as mail-order-brides.
Between 1989 to 1998, according to the Commission on Overseas Filipinos, 148,074 Filipinas left the country either as fiancées or spouses of foreigners.
END SEX TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN!
END SEX TOURISM!
END PROSTITUTION!
NO TO LABOR-EXPORT POLICY!
END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN!
1. Wear the purple rose icon.
2. Sign the Purple Rose poll or send us a pledge card via snail mail. (see address below)
3. Tell your friends about the Purple Rose Campaign. Tell them about this internet address or our friend's mirror site. Or send them copies of the brochure and pledge card. (Signify your request for brochures.) Know more about the purple rose campaign.
4. Endorse the campaign. Be a part of the Purple Rose Committee of One Hundred.
5. Material or monetary contributions, questions and suggestions may be sent to (see adresses below):
I commit myself to oppose the trafficking of women and children.
I will wear the purple rose pin as a symbol of my pledge.
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ROSE CAMPAIGN
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