Be an Advocate – Contact Your Representatives

You can be a voice for children who are sexually exploited by child sex tourists.  Please send an email to the White House and to your U.S. Representative and Senators.  You may use our letter provided below or create your own.  Just follow these steps:

1. Select and copy the text of the letter at the bottom of this page.

2. Click on one of the names below and an email page will open.  Paste your letter in the body of the email.  Simply add the correct salutation and an appropriate subject, include any other personal comments or adjustments to the letter, and sign it.  Then click "send."  It's that easy—you're an advocate!

3. Repeat the same process for any other representatives you would like to contact.

• Senator Gordon Smith
• Senator Ron Wyden
• Oregon 1^st District, David Wu
• Oregon 2^nd District, Greg Walden
• Oregon 3^rd District, Earl Blumenauer
• Oregon 4^th District, Peter A. DeFazio
• Oregon 5^th District, Darlene Hooley

• Senator Maria Cantwell
• Senator Patty Murray

U.S Government: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
or send your email directly to comments@whitehouse.gov

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Advocacy Letter to Stop Child Sex Tourism

Subject:  Increase Resources to Combat Child Sex Tourism

Dear::::::

More than two million children are enslaved in the global commercial sex trade. Sadly, U.S. citizens are among those from several industrialized countries who travel abroad for the purpose of having sex with these children.

The demand for younger and younger children is increasing.  U.S. citizens account for an estimated 25% of child sex tourists worldwide (this figure is as high as 80% in Costa Rica, Brazil, and Mexico).

With the passage of The Protect Act of 2003, the U.S. Congress better equipped the Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prosecute U.S. citizens who sexually exploit children overseas.  However, without increased resources to support the efforts of these agencies and the NGOs that they partner with, it will be difficult to identify and prosecute more than just a small percentage of the perpetrators.

Thank you for your support of children.  I look forward to hearing from you on this important issue.

For more information please contact us at cwwov@cwwov.org

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