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</font></span><div><pre class="what" style="padding: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; border-radius: 4px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; line-height: 22px; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; border: 0px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="">House Committee on Financial Services, hold a congressional hearing and help businesses eradicate human trafficking and modern slavery in supply chains.</font></span></pre><h3 class="subtitle" style="margin: 10px 0px 15px; line-height: 10pt; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.shared.full_petition_content.why_important">Why Important</span></font></span></h3><pre class="why" style="padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; border-radius: 4px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; line-height: 22px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; border: 0px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"We were sold for $430 per person. I felt very depressed when I ended up on the boat. I felt I was in hell." - Myo Zaw Do*, a migrant from Burma who was sold on Thai fishing ships.(1)

Myo Zaw Do, a migrant from Burma, describes how he was sold into slavery on Thai fishing boats for only $430. He was forced to work without pay and suffered brutal beatings by the captain, including one in which his head was slammed so violently into the ice on the deck that he is now partially deaf. Trafficked workers endure regular beatings, torture, and execution-style killings. Some are even driven to suicide, all to support the flow of cheap, farmed shrimp distributed throughout the world.(2)

Two big global retailers -- Walmart and Costco -- are named as customers of a seafood supplier in Thailand with proven links to slavery.(3) Which means that shrimp farmed with slave labor is ending up on your plate.

You can help change this! Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are considering the Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act of 2014 that encourages businesses to disclose what efforts they take to identify human trafficking in supply chains. You can tell the House of Representatives to hold companies accountable for the millions of children, men, and women trapped in the everyday nightmare of forced labor.

The business supply chain transparency bill would require large companies to say if they are taking any steps to address slavery in supply chains and what those steps are. These disclosures allow consumers to make informed decisions about what products they buy and which companies they invest in. Myo Zaw Do is just one of the millions of trafficked workers who are held in slavery in order to produce goods we purchase everyday.

Tell the House of Representatives to take the first step to passing the Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act of 2014 (H.R. 4842) by holding a hearing. Together we can shine a light on this hidden crime.

*Myo Zaw Do is a pseudonym.

(1) Felicity Lawrence, Thai seafood industry censored over Burmese migrant’s trafficking ordeal, The Guardian, March 4, 2014.

(2) Felicity Lawrence, Thai seafood industry censored over Burmese migrant’s trafficking ordeal, The Guardian, March 4, 2014.

(3) Kate Hodal, Chris Kelly in Songkhla and Felicity Lawrence, Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK, The Guardian, June 10, 2014.</font></span></pre></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font></span></div></div>