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...
CEDAW Committee of Trinidad and Tobago (CCoTT) is a volunteer non-governmental organisation focused on advocacy and public awareness and education on and for the Convention for the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The organisation strives to cultivate a vibrant community that will support, strengthen and guide the development of frameworks as a critical cog in the advocacy wheel while promoting the essential tenets of the Convention, and engaging with communities in a manner that adds significant value into effective, sustainable development.
Contact Details: Address: 32A Scott Bushe Street, Woodbrook, Trinidad and Tobago Tel: +868 225 7734 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: cedawtt.org
Libera Foundation against Trafficking in Persons and Slavery in All Its Forms is a non-profit that works to prevent and combat human trafficking and slavery in all its forms, by promoting freedom, dignity and the notion of commutative justice in Chile and Latin America. To this end, it promotes the implementation of the OECD's due diligence policies,United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.It implements activities in the areas of dissemination of knowledge, training, research, assistance and legal representation of victims, networking and actions to promote the autonomy and participation of vulnerable people and communities.
Contact Details: Address: General Adolfo Holley 133, Providencia, Santiago, Chile Tel: +56 973990192 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: libera.ong
Prostitutes' Interest Organisation in Norway (PION) is a human rights organisation, contact place and political mouthpiece for women, men and transgender people who sell sexual services in Norway. Its main objective is to ensure the health and enhance the rights of sex workers. It advocates for the decriminalisation of sex work and for alternatives to the criminal justice system. It works for reducing the harmful consequences resulting from criminalisation, stigma and marginalisation. PION's activities are based on peer work and peer involvement. It offers low threshold health services, information, legal advice and help to all sex workers regardless of their residential status in Norway concerning sex work and other related areas such as contract law, debt, tax, housing, social security, and family law. It cooperates with other sex worker organisations and networks in the Nordic region and beyond.
Contact Details: Address: Torggata 10, 0181 Oslo, Norway Tel: +47 900 63 558 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: pion-norge.no
POURAKHI Nepal works with Nepalese women migrant workers and their families to sensitise them of their rights to take informed choices in the entire cycle of migration: pre-departure, migration, employment at the country of destination, and after return to the country of origin.
POURAKHI Nepal facilitates and provides information, advice and counselling, policy advocacy, capacity building of women migrant workers and other stakeholders regarding migration and the rights of women migrant workers, entrepreneurial and psychosocial trainings to support their social and economic empowerment, and reintegration support to the potential, current and returnee women migrants. It has played an active role in making the domestic and foreign labour migration a safe, orderly, regular, and decent one through coordination and collaboration with government, non-government, and private sector stakeholders.
Contact Details: Address: House No-39, Chadke Marg, Ganesh Basti, Chundevi, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: + 977 984 913 5206 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: pourakhi.org.np
Light House is a non-profit organisation working for the development of rural and urban poor, marginalised and high risk population, particularly the landless, homeless, sex workers, drug users, men who have sex with men, Hijra, transgender, distressed, school dropouts, child labourers, Adibashi and other disadvantaged adults and children in Bangladesh.
It was founded in 1988 following a devastating flood. Since then, the organisation has grown and has established relationships with civil society, district and upazilla level administration and local government. At present, Light House workis in 29 districts of 7 divisions of Bangladesh. The organisation promotes decentralised and sustainable facilities through increasing the capacity of marginalised communities and facilitating their access to basic health services, public health (HIV/AIDS prevention) awareness, community legal service and justice (Human rights & Good Governance), food security for poverty reduction, and disaster risk and reduction.
Contact Details: Address: Jahurul Nagor, Bogra 5800, Bangladesh Tel: +88 02 8836323 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: lighthousebd.org
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