25 April 2024
On 23 of April, during its last plenary meeting of this mandate, the EU parliament adopted the final text of the recast of the EU anti-trafficking Directive1. We, the undersigned non-governmental human rights organisations, welcome some progress that has been made in the revised Directive. It is positive that sanctions for...
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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...
Advocating Opportunity (AO) provides direct holistic legal services, support, and advocacy for trafficked and exploited persons based on a trauma-responsive, legal, and human rights-based framework.
Providing direct legal services through on-staff attorneys and social support through legal advocates provides support to clients who want to use their voice in the judicial system, and in their community, by levelling the playing field and creating an opportunity to choose their life’s course on their own terms.
AO works to end human trafficking and labour exploitation by addressing the root causes of systemic vulnerabilities which significantly contribute to human trafficking in marginalised communities, in particular. This work is achieved thorough both individual advocacy and policy initiatives to eliminate racism, oppression, poverty, and to dismantle other systemic issues which vulnerabilities in our clients.
Contact Details: Address: 1119 Adams St., Toledo, Ohio 43604 Tel/Fax: +1 855 855 1945 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: advocatingopportunity.com
Sajag Samaj Sevi Sanstha started its work in 2007 with the objective of working for the rights of the Dalits and Adivasi communities in the State of Chhattisgarh, India. Sajag Samaj Sevi Sanstha with their grass-roots level interventions with the local communities, have formed women’s collectives. Sagaj Samaj Sevi Sanstha's work focuses on thematic areas of human trafficking, sexual violence, health rights, livelihood and workers’ rights. They have worked to mobilise youth in the local community to ensure there is implementation of government schemes. Additionally, they have implemented projects on menstrual health and hygiene for adolescent girls, leadership building of Dalit women, violence against women and livelihood generation for local communities. Sajag Samaj Sevi Sanstha has organised and mobilised local communities on forest rights and displacement in the name of development.
Contact Details: Address: Ram sagar para ward –N. 05 Pithora District – Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh 493551 Tel: +91 8305774391 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nav Nirman Chetna Manch is working with the local marginalised communities in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. NCM has organised and mobilised the local communities on the Forest Rights Act, 2006 by building awareness for demanding their rights. NCM has formed women collectives, and increased their participation in the Gram Sabhas. Women’s collectives have been crucial for taking up the issues of alcoholism, single women, gender discrimination and domestic violence. NCM has been working closely with youth on raising awareness on gender discrimination and violence against women.
Contact Details: Address: H. N. 1104, Ward N. 10, Ambedkar Chowk Gariyaband District – Gariyaband, Chhattisgarh 493889 Tel: +91 7828625176 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Badabon Sangho is a women’s rights and women-led organisation working in the areas of women’s rights to land, work, water-bodies, climate justice, natural resources and sexual and reproductive health. It has developed a number of tested tools and methods in order to support women migrant workers, especially their control over on resources and lands. The organisation provides capacity building support to groups and local women’s rights organisations challenging existing social, political and economic power systems that exclude, oppress and violate their human rights, and that have internal structures which reflect feminist principles.
Contact details: Address: Vill: Katamari, Post: Vakotmari, Upazila: Rampal, Bagerhat, Bangladesh Tel: +88 01732 396585 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: badabonsangho.org
Shramajivi Mahila Samity was formed in 1995 to develop a balanced and just society which provides equal opportunity to men and women.The prime aim of the organisation is to enable tribal and other women to become self-dependent in the socio-economic spheres, motivating women groups to be part of the decision-making process and ensuring participation in natural resource management and sustainable development.
SMS takes a community participation approach to combat poverty through right to food and other entitlements and livelihood development. SMS works with underprivileged women, men and children of 12 districts in the state of Jharkhand, India so they can live with dignity and have access to all the legal and constitutional rights they are entitled to. SMS' programmes include strengthening local self-governance for established good governance of marginalised community and reducing the gender gaps in society. SMS provides training and capacity building, and support to link people with the flagship government programmes both in-rural and urban marginalised men, women and children.
SMS has assisted about 2 lakhs people, including single women-headed households and different stakeholders, to become aware of different government support programmes. It has submitted more than 53,000 applications for government schemes like MNREGA job card, job claims, pension schemes, Indira/PM Awas Social security etc. out of which 32,462 applications have been sanctioned and 2,065 single women received labour cards. 16,000 families have enrolled under RSBY (health insurance) scheme.
Contact Details: Address: Holding no – 06, 2 Floor, Gunomoy Colony, Mango, Jamshedpur – 831012, Jharkhand, India Tel: +91 9431304140 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: smsjhar.org
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Advocating Opportunity (AO) provides direct holistic legal services, support, and advocacy for trafficked and exploited persons based on a trauma-responsive, legal, and human rights-based framework. 
Badabon Sangho is a women’s rights and women-led organisation working in the areas of women’s rights to land, work, water-bodies, climate justice, natural resources and sexual and reproductive health. It has developed a number of tested tools and methods in order to support women migrant workers, especially their control over on resources and lands. The organisation provides capacity building support to groups and local women’s rights organisations challenging existing social, political and economic power systems that exclude, oppress and violate their human rights, and that have internal structures which reflect feminist principles.
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