Dear Diners Club,

I would like to express my deep concerns over serious the human rights violations Diners Club Singapore is supporting.  I was appalled to learn that Diners Club Singapore had entered into a partnership with Vietnam Brides International to provide a payment plan for the purchase of women, dehumanizing them and treating them like commodities.  Diners Club Singapore has agreed to finance the purchase of these women for $167 per month, over the course of four years, without interest.        While the mail-order bride industry is a legal business, it is characterized by several important features which render the women sold within it especially susceptible to exploitative practices, including human trafficking, domestic violence, and other abuses.  Because mail order bride companies are commercial enterprises, they favor the interests of the paying clients, usually men, over the interests of the brides, usually women with few economic options.  The industry is also seldom regulated.  Together, these characteristics allow criminals to use mail order bride agencies to traffic and abuse women.    By providing a payment plan to Vietnam Brides International, Diners Club is financially and morally supporting an industry which has been heavily associated with the trafficking of women.  Furthermore Diners Club is removing a crucial financial safeguard, the upfront marriage fee, which creates an additional barrier for criminals who would exploit these women.  As the financier of these transactions, Diners Club would be complicit in the trafficking of women through this agency.     I know Diners Club strives to be a responsible, ethical company, but supporting a payment plan for the purchase of a human being is not acceptable.  Please end the payment plan for the purchase of these human beings and the partnership with Vietnam Brides International.   I urge you to take immediate action on this to prevent Diners Club’s further association with the exploitation and trafficking of women via mail order bride agencies.    Regards,  

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