International Efforts
Butler and the rest of the Ladies National Association not only concentrated their efforts within the UK. In May 1886, Josephine Butler wrote to the Priestman sisters about turning the LNA into an organization for the colonies because the Contagious Diseases Acts were still in effect there, though they had been repealed at home. There was similar legislation in various European countries and similar provisions were enacted in India under the British Raj in 1897. The LNA took these legislations just as seriously as the acts in Britain and actively started campaigning for their repeal as well. Josephine Butler spent many years traveling between countries trying to rally support for her cause as well as holding numerous meetings in Britain.
In May 1887 Butler told Sentinel readers that
"our poor Indian sisters claim our sympathy even more than our own country women who were subjected to the C.D. Acts, for not only are they women oppressed by men, but they are the women of a conquered race oppressed by their conquerors. Their hope of deliverance must seem to them so very far off."
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