Human Rights
at home, abroad and on the way...
Human Rights
at home, abroad and on the way...
For the PDF version, click here. 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 For the PDF version, go here. 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...
For the Spanish version, go here. 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...
Please go here for the PDF files in Sinhala, Tamil, and English. We, the representatives of Civil Society Organisations and Migrant...
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විවිධ ප්රවේශවල වසේවය කරන සිවිල් සමාජ සංවිධානවල සහ සංක්රමණික සංවර්ධන සමිතිවල නිවයෝජිතයන් වන අපි, කාන්තා ජාවාරමට එවරහි වcෝලීය සන්ධානය සමඟ එක්ව, ශ්රී ලාංකීය කාන්තාවන්වේ සුරක්ෂිත සහ සාධාරණ ශ්රම සංක්රමණයපිළිබඳ වෙදින උපවේශනයක් අවසන් කර ඇත. උපවේශනයට සහභාගී වූ...
Ban Ying is a member of GAATW working in the city of Berlin, Germany. In June 2023, we interviewed Lea Rakovsky, Project Coordinator of the organisation, to know about the journey, work and approach of the organisation throughout the years. The portraits that accompany this interview were painted by Krisanta Caguioa-Mönnich, who is the cultural and language mediator at Ban Ying, and an artist.
Awaj Foundation aims to redress the structural problems in the garment industry, raise awareness on the issues that garment workers face, train workers on their rights and responsibilities under national and international labor law frameworks. Awaj’s actively builds leadership capacity and negotiation capability of women workers as they are the majority of the workforce in the industry as Awaj believes that leadership from women can transform the society towards greater equity and justice. They also work on prevention of gender-based violence and sexual harassment against women (at work and at home) by campaigning, providing factory level awareness training, advocacy including demanding for ratification of ILO C190, focuses on training financial independence, reproductive health services for women workers to help improve their lives. It has also expanded the scope of its work beyond the garment sector to areas such as women migrant workers in the RMG sector, precarious workers and working conditions in the leather and textile sectors. Awaj’s overseas migration program assists workers, particularly migrant women, through all stages of the migration process.
Contact details:
Address: 5/F, 3rd Floor, Rasulbagh, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212
Telf: +88029830067
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Website: awajfoundation.org
Animus Association is a member of GAATW in Bulgaria. In May 2023, Vivian Cartagena from GAATW International Secretariat conducted this interview with Nadia Kozhouharova, the Director of Animus, to learn more about the organisation’s history, current programmes, successes and challenges ahead.
Clean World is a Public Union for the assistance to women and is one of the first non-governmental organizations in Azerbaijan to fight all forms of violence against women and promote women’s rights. It was established in May 1998 and officially registered on September 29, 2006.Their purpose is to change the historically formed stereotypes of the public (with the help of the public) to the problems of violation of women's rights. Their main activities and services are: provision of legal, psychological, social and moral support as well as specialized medical assistance; research and planning; centre for reintegration and rehabilitation (asylum) for victims of violence.
Contact details
Address: Binaqadi distr., Husu haciyev 23, AZ1144 Baku, Azerbaijan
Telf: (+994 12) 408 6586; (+994 12) 511(+994 12) 408 6586; (+994 12) 51111 51; (+994 50) 2182228
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Fundación Quimera is a non-profit organization since 1996, located in southern Ecuador, with headquarters in the city of Machala. Their work focuses on promoting programs, projects and actions for the prevention and eradication of gender-based violence (GBV), including human trafficking, especially against women, children, the LGBTIQ population, refugees and migrants, as well as host communities; within the framework of contributing to the generation of knowledge, information, awareness, educational campaigns, and interventions of direct attention and protection for the restitution of rights. They also do advocacy work with proposals for public policies that promote gender equality and non-discrimination.
Contact details
Address: Santa Rosa 2104 entre Arízada y Pichincha, Machala, Ecuador.
Telf: +593 99206-8312
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Website: https://www.facebook.com/FundacionQuimeraONG/?locale=es_LA
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