Ethical Traveler

Ethical Traveler is currently researching a number of issues for our next campaign. In the meantime, you can read about any of the issues we've addressed in the recent past. Note that the Candles for Burma campaign is ongoing, and still offers a way for you to contribute.

As always, if you register with Ethical Traveler you'll have a chance to tell us which additional issues concern you most. Regardless of registering, you can also share your ideas in the Ethosphere, the Ethical Traveler online community.

The "Candles for Burma" Campaign
Send your birthday greetings to Burma's imprisoned leader

On the 19th of June, 2005, Aung San Suu Kyi — the freedom-loving leader of the Burmese people — turned 60 under house arrest. The military junta prevents mail from reaching her. To show our support, we have created a website where concerned persons from around the world can post digital greetings. We invite you to contribute a digital photograph on the theme of "Candles for Burma." Read more about this issue, and how you can participate.

CAMBODIA
Campaign Against Cambodian Child Sex Trafficking

Despite its popularity with legitimate tourists, Cambodia is a hot spot for human trafficking: the sale of men, women, and children for sexual exploitation (and forced labor). It's big business; many men who visit Cambodia come specifically for sex. As many as 100,000 women and children may be at risk, many of them minors. Cambodia's efforts to eliminate this slave trade have been hindered by corruption, poor law enforcement, and a weak judiciary system. Read more about this issue, and how you can help.

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TASMANIA
Future Remains Uncertain for Tasmania's Old Growth Forests

Tasmania is home to magnificent stands of hardwood trees and the largest area of rainforest wilderness in Australia. These impressive old growth forests draw millions of visitors to Tasmania each year, but logging, burning, and poisoning are threatening their existence, as well as the lives of thousands of native animals that inhabitant them. Read more about this issue, and how you can help solve it.

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TIBET
Road Construction Threatens Tibet's Sacred Mt. Kailas

The ancient circumambulation route around Asia's most sacred summit, 22,028-foot Mt. Kailas in Western Tibet, draws thousands of religious pilgrims each year who walk the 32-mile path in an age-old ritual of devotion. Now this supremely holy site is threatened by a proposed motor road around the mountain, part of a plan by Chinese authorities to increase tourism in the region. Read more and learn what you can do to help preserve the integrity of this site.

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NEPAL
The Tibetan Refugee Crisis: Keeping a Weather Eye

Tibetan refugees rely on international conventions that safeguard their pursuit of religious freedom and human rights. Most leave Tibet to reach asylum in either Nepal or eventually India, where they can be near their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Having long provided a doorway to freedom for the Tibetans, Nepal's recent actions show such neighborliness is not assured. Read more about this and send a letter to Nepalese officials urging their continued humanitarianism.

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