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  • End Genocide Urges Banning Ivory Sales in New York

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    Elephants are slaughtered everyday for their ivory tusks, with total killings reaching 35,000 each year. That’s 96 elephants every day. The ivory trade also puts an expiration date on victims of human rights violations. African rebel groups use the ivory trade to fund their mass atrocities across the continent. The state of New York is one of the largest ivory markets in the world but is also in a powerful position to take the lead in helping to end this crisis.

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    Elephants are slaughtered everyday for their ivory tusks, with total killings reaching 35,000 each year. That’s 96 elephants every day. The ivory trade also puts an expiration date on victims of human rights violations. African rebel groups use the ivory trade to fund their mass atrocities across the continent. The state of New York is one of the largest ivory markets in the world but is also in a powerful position to take the lead in helping to end this crisis.

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    End Genocide Urges Banning Ivory Sales in New York

    Enviado por

    United to End Genocide
    Elephants are slaughtered everyday for their ivory tusks, with total killings reaching 35,000 each year. That’s 96 elephants every day. The ivory trade also puts an expiration date on victims of human rights violations. African rebel groups use the ivory trade to fund their mass atrocities across the continent. The state of New York is one of the largest ivory markets in the world but is also in a powerful position to take the lead in helping to end this crisis.

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    June4,2014

    TheHonorableSheldonSilver
    Speaker
    NewYorkStateAssembly
    932LegislativeOfficeBuilding
    Albany,NY12248
    DearSpeakerSilver,
    OnbehalfofUnitedtoEndGenocide,IrespectfullyurgeyoutosupportpassageofA8824/S7194toban
    ivorysalesinNewYork.
    SomeoftheworsthumanrightsviolatorsonEarthhaverecentlyturnedtoanewsourceofincometo
    financetheirkillingandterror:theslaughterofelephantsfortheirtusks.
    96Elephantsarekilledeverydayfortheirivorythats35,000ayear.Atthisrate,thismagnificent
    animalwillbeextinctwithinadecade.Itisnotonlyaseriousconservationissue,itisalsoasignificant
    nationalsecurityandhumanitarianconcern.
    Asafrontlinehumanrightsorganization,weseetheconnectionveryclearly.ThekillingofAfrica's
    elephantsfortheillegaltradeofivoryisalsofundingrebelgroupsthatarekillingpeopleand
    destabilizingtheentireregion.Thesearegroupsthatarenotoriousforcommittinghumanrights
    violationsincludingmurder,mutilation,rape,widespreadabductionsofchildrenandadults,sexual
    slaveryandlargescalemassacres.
    Sadly,NewYorkisoneofthelargestivorymarketsintheworld.ButNewYorkisalsoinapowerful
    positiontotaketheleadinhelpingtoendthiscrisis.Morethan80%ofNewYorkersunequivocally
    supportastatebanonivorysales.
    PleasepassA8824/S7194today.Itiscriticaltohumanrightsandtothesecurityofournation.
    Sincerely,

    Hon.ThomasH.Andrews
    PresidentandCEO
    UnitedtoEndGenocide

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