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News Updates
Continued exploitation of children in cocoa
industry
April 3,
2007
Read the
BBC World Service
report
Fighting Slavery Today
March 30,
2007
Latest newsletter.
International edition:
North American edition:
Australian and New Zealand edition:
John Clarkson speaks about the 200th anniversary
today of the abolition of the slave trade and the work of his
famous ancestor, the abolitionist, Thomas Clarkson
March 24,
2007
John Clarkson is a member of the Society's Board of
Governors. He writes about his very famous
ancestor, who, with William Wilberforce, led the
fight against the slave trade and slavery.
Dr Keith Suter speaks about the 200th anniversary
today of the abolition of the slave trade
March 24,
2007
Dr Suter is Chairman of the Society.
Forthcoming anniversary celebrations in Wilberforce
and Pitt in New South Wales, Australia
March 21,
2007
Wilberforce and Pitt are named after two famous
abolitionists: William Wilberforce and William Pitt
the Younger (at 26, the youngest ever British Prime
Minister).
Slaves in Sudan
March 19,
2007
Parents in southern Sudan are still waiting for the
return of their children from slavery.
Slaves in Mauritania
March 19,
2007
Slavery still exists in Mauritania.
Remembering slavery in Zanzibar
March 19,
2007
The Archbishop of Canterbury revisits
the whipping post and the old slave pens in
Zanzibar, which was once the greatest slave market
in the world.
Stop the Traffik
March 11,
2007
The Society is part of the Stop the
Traffik alliance.
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Anonymous donation
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March 16,
2007
We acknowledge receipt of an anonymous donation of $10.00.
We provide receipts for all donations (alas, not always in a
timely fashion), and those who which are anonymous are
acknowledged on the website.
How you helped Titakashwar Sada, a 14 year former slave
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March 13 ,
2007
 Titakashwar Sada is 14 years old. He comes from Patori, a
village in the State of Bihar, the poorest State in India. When he was about 9 years a middleman arrived in his village
and took him away after deceiving his mother and father with false promises
that he would provide Tilakashwar with a good education and vocational
training. Instead, the middleman sold him to Ramraj Bind, a loom master
in the village of Harcharanpur in Badoi District, near Mirazapur, who forced
him to work at a carpet loom. Here he worked as a
slave for 5 years.
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How you helped Ramappa Moogappa, a 12 year pawn slave -
March 12,
2007
 Ramappa is 12 years and comes from Nidumakanahalli,
Dinnahalli, Masti, in the taluk of Malur in the State of Karnataka in India. He became a child pawn-slave (a bonded child
laborer) when
he was 12 years old. His mother was working as a wage laborer to keep her
family. His father, who was a drunkard, borrowed 2,000 rupees for his
sister’s wedding from Narayanaswamy Gowda in Kadusonnehalli in Malur
taluk. He worked every day from 4 am in the morning
until 11 pm at night. He had to clean the house, take
the cattle to pasture, water the fields, bath the cattle and
wash the tractor. He ran away from his master on three
occasions, but each time his master caught him, took him
back to work and beat him for running away .
Anniversary of the abolition of British slave trade
March 11,
2007
The BBC is commemorating the 200th
anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade.
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St Stephen's School, Perth, Western Australia
March 11,
2007
We wish to thank
Lauren, a schoolgirl at St
Stephen’s School, Perth, Western Australia, who
organized a stand with material on the Society’s
work. St Stephen’s School is a Uniting Church
school.
Support
March 11,
2007
The Society is grateful for the support of Monika
Droste and Vivienne Bijok and Anthony Bijok for their
continuing monthly financial support for the Society’s work over many
years.
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