Through awareness, advocacy and action Save Our Sisters
supports the global empowerment of women and promotes urgent social change for extremely impoverished women around the world.
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Did you know?
There are more slaves in the world today, than at any other time in history and the majority of the slaves are women and girls.
Sexual Trafficking is slavery. Sex trafficking is an international business and will soon surpass drug trafficking in terms of income.
In many countries girls are denied the right to an education, the right to vote and the right to own property. They are not valued.
Rape is the new weapon of war, much cheaper than bullets. In some countries there are no enforced laws against rape or gang rape.
One women dies every minute in childbirth, because she is poor. Mothers suffer alone, giving birth of the dirt floors of the huts, with no medical care.
In many countries, women do not have the right to vote or own property.
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