1. Support FAWCO’s Malaria Project: Our commitment to eradicating malaria will continue and we urge you to focus on this issue by awareness-raising or supporting projects for malaria prevention. You can donate money to FAWCO’s on-going efforts to help alleviate the problem of malaria in conjunction with BioVision. See http://ngo.fawco.org/malaria

2. Join Billion Tree...

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...

Football and Trafficking – The World Cup Scandal

 By Pam Perraud , NGO Director   

Sports, booze and sex. They usually go together but this year’s World Cup championship in Germany set off a firestorm of controversy.  Why?  Because prostitution is legal in Germany and the well-organized Germans have gone to extraordinary lengths to anticipate and make sure that...

To    Honorable Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

To   Gerhard Mayer-Volfelder, President of FIFA Germany

 Whereas:

•  From June 9- July 9 Germany will host the FIFA World Cup  soccer tournament in 12 German cities drawing upwards of 7 million visitors, mostly males, and

• It is estimated 40,000-100,000...

 
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