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Joint civil society recommendations for the trialogue negotiations on the revision of the EU ‘Anti- Trafficking Directive’ (2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and...
22nd November, 2023
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GAATW International Secretariat and members stand in solidarity with Bangladeshi garment workers who are protesting the new minimum wage proposed by the Labour Department, which...
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GAATW organised a panel at the IWRAW virtual Global South Women’s Forum(GSWF) on 29th October 2023. GAATW organised it with its members and partners from South East Asia and Latin America. They are...
Berlin, July 2023
1. Background and Context
Over the last three years GAATW, together with ten partners from Southeast Asia and Europe, has used a feminist participatory action research methodology to learn about the experiences of 259 Southeast Asian women migrants who were...
In 2023, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) together with ten partner organisations from Southeast Asia and Europe researched Southeast Asian migrant women’s experience of migration to Europe, and of their reintegration at home...
Legal Support for Children and Women (LSCW) was formally founded in 2002 following a year of research and analysis on particular conditions afflicting children and women in Cambodian society. LSCW promotes gender equality, protects children and women from all forms of exploitation, pushes for the respect of their rights and increases children’s and women’s awareness of those rights. LSCW is working to improve the situation of women and children in Cambodia by providing them with the necessary support to exercise their human rights, particularly by increasing legal literacy within small communities and in the wider Cambodian society.
Contact Details: Address: #132E-F, Street 135, Phasar Doeum Thkov, Chamkarmorn, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tel/Fax: +855 23 220 626 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: lscw.org
Action for REACH OUT (AFRO) was formed in 1993 to foster the self-representation of sex workers and to provide necessary services and support to women working within the commercial sex industry in Hong Kong as well as women coming to Hong Kong from other countries. AFRO's main goal is to form a support network for women working within the commercial sex industry in Hong Kong. Services provided by AFRO include skills training, drug rehabilitation, a drop-in centre, hotline, referrals for support services, health screening, newsletter preparation and peer education on issues such as legal rights, life skills and health. Outreach workers visit nightclubs, karaoke bars, hair salons and the women working on the streets. Workers accompany women to the doctor, through the legal system, and make prison visitations. AFRO also works to increase public awareness of sex workers' rights.
Contact Details:
Address: P.O. Box 98108, T.S.T. Post Office, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: +852 2770-1065 Fax: +852 2770-1201 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: afro.org.hk
Following its inception in October 2000, Association of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong - Asosiasi Te naga Kerja Indonesia (ATKI) has worked to build up a mass movement of progressive Indonesian migrant workers based in Hong Kong. ATKI’s main objective is to assert and defend the rights and welfare of Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. ATKI has organised a series of advocacy initiatives against the anti-migrant policies of the Indonesian and Hong Kong governments (e.g. press conferences, forums with the Indonesian Labour Ministry and the Immigration and Labour Department of Hong Kong SAR, campaign against a wage cut together with the Asian Migrants Coordinating Body (AMCB), held congress in Indonesia for returned migrants and their families). Workers also provide on-site welfare assistance, mobile counselling in Victoria Park (a main congregation point for Indonesian migrant workers on Sunday), education on workers’ legal entitlements, and socialisation activities (e.g. dance, art and music classes). ATKI is an active member of the Asian Migrants Coordinating Body (AMCB) and has collaborated with Solidaritas Prempuan in Jakarta to educate people on migrant issues in Hong Kong SAR.
Contact Details: Address: c/o Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) G/F, No. 2 Jordan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR Tel: +852 2314-7316 Fax: +852 2735-4559 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Contact Information in Indonesia: ATKI-Indonesia Address: Jl. Mampang Prapatan XIII RT 03/03 No. 03 Mampang Prapatan, South Jakarta, Indonesia Telephone/Fax: +621-7986468 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee is a forum of 65 000 sex workers based in West Bengal, India. The basic approach of Durbar’s programme is based on the principle of “3 R’s” - Respect, Reliance and Recognition: Respect towards sex workers, Reliance on the knowledge and wisdom of the community of sex workers and Recognition of sex work as an occupation, for the protection of their occupational and human rights. Durbar was created by sex workers involved in the STD/HIV Intervention Programme or the Sonagachi Project. In 1999, Durbar took over the management of the Sonagachi Project and currently runs STD/HIV intervention programmes in 49 sex work sites in West Bengal. Durbar provides testing, counselling and care for people with HIV/AIDS. DMSC’s anti-trafficking work is done through Self-Regulatory Boards comprised of both sex workers and community supporters. Self-Regulatory Boards monitor brothels in co-operation with brothel owners in order to identify women and children who have been trafficked and to arrange for care. DMSC has also created a hostel for sex workers children, worked to decrease violence and abuse by law enforcement agencies, implemented an initiative to admit children in schools, organised loan programmes, provided vocational training for the children of sex workers (as electricians and beauticians), created the Usha Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society (the largest cooperative society for sex workers in Asia), provided literacy training for adults, organized annual conferences for sex workers, established Komol Gandhar (sex workers performance troupe) and the Binodini Srameek Union or the Binodini Labour Union.
Contact Details:
Address: 12/5 Nilmoni Mitra Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, India Tel: +91 33 2530 3148 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Institute for Social Development (ISD) is an organisation based in Orissa, India. Their main objective is to organise and mobilise the civil society on violence against women. ISD has undertaken a study on trafficking of adolescent girls and women in the state of Orissa in collaboration with the Taskforce on Women & Violence. They handle cases of trafficked victims who are staying in shelter homes and provide consultation with the victims’ parents for their re-integration in the community. ISD is currently developing skills training and income generation programmes for economically marginalised young women, including young women who have been trafficked. ISD has started a training institute at Bhubaneswar for the production of jute bags for trafficking survivors residing at various shelter homes.
Contact Details: Address: Plot no 95, Kanan Vihar Phase II, Po - Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Tel: +91 674-2726756 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: isdbbsr.org
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