Petition Against Online Exploitation
Join over 60,000 individuals taking a stand against the online exploitation of women, men and children. Please sign the petition created by Groundswell to let the owners of Village Voice, Backpage.com’s parent company & owners of The Dallas Observer, know you stand against the online promotion of sexual exploitation.
The Fort Worth Examiner shared information on this opportunity to voice dissatisfaction with Village Voice who profits from sexual exploitation as a result of advertisements in their publications. The article reports one-third of the advertisements in a recent Dallas Observer were adult entertainment ads which can be an avenue for traffickers to sell both underage girls and women. 51 Attorney Generals sent a letter to Village Voice to call on the company to stop publishing adult entertainment ads as they found the ad service to be a vehicle for illegal activity and selling youth as noted in this New York Times article.
Luis CdeBaca, U.S. Ambassador at large, is the man behind the U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report. In a recent CNN interview Luis CdeBaca noted the crucial role consumers and individuals have in influencing businesses to change practices rather than relying on government alone to address the issues. He cites a movement to remove massage parlor advertisements fronting for trafficking and prostitution in another newspaper that was influenced by the outcry of consumers sharing their dissatisfaction.
Will you add your voice to the growing chorus of others sharing disatisfaction and intolerance for businesses to profit from the commercial sexual exploitation of people?
