HumanTrafficking Subcommittee, Advancing Human Rights Committee

Use your January renewed energy to prepare and to take action locally as part of the national campaign, “Intercept Human Trafficking” around football’s Super Bowl! Demonstrating, leafleting, writing letters to the editor will all help get the word out.

WILPF US has again teamed up with the United Methodist Women (UMW) women to raise awareness on the very real issues of human trafficking (HT) that intensify around this iconic American sports event, set for February 1, 2015.. This is our second year working on this in coalition with the UMW women and other organizations.

Leafleting at the Super Bowl and by participating branches locally will assist in bringing awareness of the wide-ranging sets of criminal activity that are engaged in during this popular sports phenomenon to the consciousness of the mainstream of our communities and out of the shadows. In addition to the flyer and postcard downloads available at this website

The UMW INTERCEPT campaign website has information and resources that you can use as part of your activism on the Intercept campaign. UMW also has a Web page of useful information overall about human trafficking at www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/human-trafficking.

If you’re energized by this, please contact Jan Kubiac. Jan can also let you know when we will have some more information available for this year’s action for our members that is currently in production. On an ongoing basis, we can use help in updating our WILPF HT resources, including a fact sheet and other materials from the tool kit we last issued in 2012.

And, for AHR issues generally, branches are invited to have reps participate in AHR’s communications so you know what’s going on with HT and our other activities (at-large members are always welcome, too!) – we’re doing CEDAW work, 1325 work, and are setting up a subcommittee to work on the joint Human Right to Water campaign that has grown out of issues raised at the Detroit Congress (contact Rose Daitsman).

If you are interested in any of these issues or Advancing Human Rights in general, you are invited to join us. Contact Jan, or the AHR Co-Chairs: Barbara Nielsen or Lucinda Tate.