Fact Sheet on Human Trafficking and Prostitution

The Scope of the Problem

• It is estimated that 700,000 to 2 million people are trafficked annually.

• According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, “trafficking of human beings has reached epidemic proportions. No country is immune.”

• “Traffickers face few risks and earn huge profits.”

• A recent CIA report estimated that 45,000...

 
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice                                   March 8, 2007

US State Department

2201 C Street NW

Washington, DC 205020

 
Dear Madame Secretary,

 
To mark the 2007 International Women’s Day, we the undersigned as members of

FAWCO, the Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas, the  oldest and largest organization representing  private sector Americans

Senator Joseph Biden

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations                                    March 8, 2007

Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510 6225

  Dear Senator Biden,  

 
On March 8, International Women’s Day, we the undersigned are members of the FAWCO(Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas), the oldest and largest organization representing  private sector Americans living abroad urge you endorse full...

An update on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and background information

History and Background

On December 18, 1979, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The call for a Treaty for the Rights of Women emerged from the First World Conference on...