News and Events in 2005
Children in Slavery Summit
November 8, 2005

USFMEP President Sally Kader participated as a panelist at the Children in Slavery 21st Century Summit at Georgetown University in November 2005. The summit, which discussed Human Trafficking, had an audience that included business leaders and the international diplomatic community. The summit presented experts who work on the front lines investigating human trafficking in its eight faces: sex, war, labor slavery, sex tourism, child pornography, organ and skin, ritual abuse, and torture.

This event was unique in that it encouraged the public and persons not necessarily part of this arena to become educated, empowered and engaged in the worldwide campaign to end human trafficking now. Almost 50 percent of those enslaved in this century are children. The summit was endorsed by His Excellency Jan Eliasson, president of the UN General Assembly, U.S. President George W. Bush, the U.S. State Department, the Australian Embassy, many law enforcement agencies and several prominent business leaders. Claude Allen, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy at the White house, was one of the speakers. Journalist Christine Dolan, the organizer of this event, said, "This is a global shame shared by all of us. Every ten minutes around the clock and across the globe, there are between 15 to 76 new trafficked victims. This is a global phenomenon with drastically dangerous ramifications not only for society but for future generations to come."

As a result of the Human Trafficking Summit, a worldwide bipartisan coalition was launched. Students Stopping Trafficking of Persons (SSTOP) aims to continue fighting the injustices done to trafficking victims. The International Students Trafficking Summit was held in Washington D.C. at Georgetown University on February 24-26, 2006. In 2007, SSTOP executed a world-wide multi-dimensional campaign and joined forces with other organizations with one goal in mind: to decrease slavery around the world. Kader is an Ambassador of "Children in Slavery: the 21st Century" 2007 campaign.

 

US Federation Members Celebrating the International Day of Peace
September 21, 2005

Dr. Osama Al-Baz, President Mubarak First Political Advisor, receiving the peace award on behalf of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt from USFMEP President Mrs. Sally Kader, Vice. President. Al-Fadaly and Egyptian Actor Mr. Ahmed Maher showing the Peace Shield award during the ceremony.

The International Day of Peace "is meant to be a day of global cease-fire, when all countries and all people stop all hostilities for the entire day. And it is a day on which people around the world observe a minute of silence at 12 noon local time. And let us pledge to do our utmost to carry out the important decisions on peace taken by last week's 2005 World Summit."

- Kofi Annan -
United Nations Secretary-General 21
September 2005

 

2005 Peace Conference with Muslim Youth Association
June 8, 2005

Numerous government officials, dignitaries and diplomats attended the 2005 USFMEP United Nations International Peace Day Conference held under the auspices of the Minister of International Cooperation and the Minister of Youth in Cairo Egypt.

Among those participating in the conference with Sally Kader, USFMEP president and Ralph Kader - UN Diplomat - USFMEP board advisor, Dr. Moufid Shihab - Egyptian Minister of Legal Affairs, and Dr. Ahmed Darwish - Egyptian Minister of Economic Develpoment. Numerous religious leaders participated including those from El Azher Mosque, the local Catholic Church and a Vatican Envoy, the Coptic Christian Church, and other denominations as well as other significant government officials, heads of Universities, leading area scholars and notable Egyptian actors and actresses. Master Mahmoud Badry, General President of the Muslim Youth Associations and Counselor Ahmed El Fadaly - representing the USFMEP and the Muslim Youth Associations - were engaged in the conference as well. In an overwhelming show of unity regarding Mrs. Kader¡¯s challenge to all attending, the crowd joined hands in a vow of peace keeping. Footage of this monumental peace vow was aired repeatedly on all major Middle Eastern television stations. In her concluding remarks, Kader plead with the audience to "...commit to joining your hands now in working towards peace in the region."

The audience gesture in taking Kader's challenge is historically significant due to the high level of dignitaries affirming her call for peace.