E-Bulletin October 2015: News from our Member Organisations

Written on 16 September 2015.

“Towards Greater Accountability - Participatory Monitoring of Anti-Trafficking Initiatives” - Latin America Report

During 2013-14 GAATW-IS initiated and steered a project entitled "Towards greater accountability - Participatory Monitoring of Anti-Trafficking Initiatives”. In the framework of this project, 17 GAATW member organisations from Asia, Europe and Latin America carried out researches to find out from trafficked persons their perceptions and views of the support services they received.

The researches reaffirmed the rights of trafficked persons to express their voices and ensured that service providing organisations incorporated their feedback in future work. Participating colleagues from the Latin American region have put together their research reports into a regional report that can be downloaded from GAATW-IS Website. Click here for the executive summary in English, the full report in Spanish or the executive summary in Spanish.  

Building Bridges to Combat Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Children and Adolescents

Within the Stepping Stones Project, "Building Bridges to combat commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and adolescents", the Dutch development foundation ICCO published a comparative study of policy processes, plans and national laws on commercial sexual violence and trafficking of children and adolescents in five South American countries. The participating organisations are Centro Humanitario de Apoyo a la Mujer - CHAME (Brazil), Fundación La Paz (Bolivia), Fundación Renacer (Colombia), Organización Luna Nueva (Paraguay) and Organización Capital Humano e Social - CHS (Perú).

The publication is based on national studies, conducted in each of the partner countries, which analysed the existing legislation and the conceptual definitions used, as well as the practical application of these policies. It aims to provide an overview of the advances in the legal framework, as well as the strategies, plans and programmes currently executed by their governments in order to address the trafficking and smuggling of children and adolescents. It makes recommendations for future steps and specific actions that need to be taken in the region.

Fourth Latin American Conference on Human Trafficking and Smuggling

"Labour exploitation, commercial sexual violence and sexual exploitation of adults"

GAATW-IS and some members from Latin America are participating in the Fourth Latin American Congress on Trafficking and Smuggling. The Congress is held in La Paz, Bolivia on 14-16 October under the slogan: Building networks, voices and views to decide and act.

GAATW members are presenting the findings of their Accountability Research at the Conference. GAATW-IS is also doing a second launch of issue 5 of the Anti-Trafficking Review at the conference. There will also be a half-day meeting with members who are present at the conference.