Meet Our Members: ASTRA Anti-Trafficking Action

ASTRA - Anti-Trafficking Action is a member of GAATW in Serbia. In September 2022, Jennifer Janssen from the GAATW Secretariat conducted this interview with Marija Andjelkovic, President of ASTRA, to better understand the organisation’s history,...

Public policy against human trafficking should consider the lived experiences of survivors

Fundación Libera is a GAATW member in Chile. Vivian Cartagena from the GAATW Secretariat conducted this interview with the organisation’s founder, Carolina Rudnick, in July 2023 to better understand their work, history and context. The interview was...

Ban Ying, a “house for women" survivors of domestic violence, and sexual and labour exploitation.

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...

Issue 10: Women Workers Organise

Dear friends, We are pleased to bring you the May 2023 issue of Our Work, Our Lives which focusses on women workers’ organising. In this issue we hear from community organisers and union leaders affiliated to AMKAS-Nepal, ARM-Lebanon, CHRCD-Sri Lanka,...

Freedom Network USA

Freedom Network USA is the largest coalition working on human trafficking in the United States. The network convenes survivors, legal and social service providers, researchers, and expert consultants to engage in advocacy, training and technical...

Statement on UK's new Illegal Migration Bill

We write this statement as an alliance of anti-trafficking experts and service providers from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and North America. We wish to express our deep concern over the proposals contained within the UK’s...

Voice and Participation

Partners in Europe and Year of Inception Following are the profiles of the eight organisations who are part of this learning journey along with an excerpt of their proposed project for 2023: Comitato or The Committee for the Civil Rights of Prostitutes...

Project Partners

Following are the profiles of the eight organisations who are part of this learning journey along with an excerpt of their proposed project for 2023: MAP Foundation, Thailand, established in 1996 works with the mission to empower migrant workers from...

International Women's Day: Reflections of our GAATW-IS Staff

On International Women's day this year, we invited GAATW-IS staff to share their reflection on what this day mean to them and how they celebrate it. Here is what they said:

Meet Our Members: Shramajivi Mahila Samity

Shramajivi Mahila Samity is a member of GAATW in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India. It focusses on social and economic empowerment of rural and marginalised women. In November 2022, GAATW spoke with Purabi Paul and Ruby Parveen from SMS to learn...

Sunita’s work is about creating a safe and understanding space where survivors feel heard and supported

Sunita Foundation is a non-profit organization established by human trafficking survivors in 2019 AD. The foundation focuses on youth empowerment to prevent human trafficking at the grassroots level and raises awareness on human trafficking as an issue...

Institut Perempuan: Women's Movement and Women's Rights

Interview with Valentina (Rotua Valentina Sagala), Founder of Institut Perempuan (Women’s Institute) Background: Institut Perempuan (IP) or Women’s Institute is a feminist NGO in Indonesia focused on women’s rights advocacy and women’s economic...

TWC2: Advocating for Fair Treatment of Migrant Workers

Singapore, a country with population of 5.18millions, 1.27millions is foreigner workers mostly in construction, manufacturing and domestic services. The November strike by Chinese bus drivers last year generated both supportive and xenophobic remarks...

Amplifying women (migrant) workers’ voices

In August, we started publishing a new monthly e-magazine, titled Our Work, Our Lives. Each issue focuses on a simple theme that resonates with the everyday lives of low-wage women (migrant) workers, their joys, sorrows, struggles and, most...

Anti-trafficking education

In September, we published the latest issue of Anti-Trafficking Review themed ‘Anti-Trafficking Education’ and guest edited by Annie Isabel Fukushima, Annie Hill, and Jennifer Suchland. The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the sites for...

Boletin de GAATW-REDLAC junio 2022 - Noticias del Secretariado Internacional de la GAATW

Amplificando las voces de las mujeres trabajadoras (migrantes) En agosto, comenzamos a publicar una nueva revista electrónica mensual titulada “Nuestro trabajo, nuestras vidas” (Our Work, Our Lives). Cada número se enfoca en una temática simple que...

Our Work, Our Lives, issue 6: Hopes and dreams for 2022

Dear friends, Greetings of the New Year! Even though so far 2022 feels like Twenty-Twenty-Too, let’s hope that the situation will improve during the year. Hopefully the vaccination rates will increase significantly around the world and some degree of...

End Gender-Based Violence against Women Migrant workers

Statement by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women on International Women’s Day 2020 Women migrant workers experience a continuum of gender-based violence and harassment, ranging from insults to severe physical abuse, sexual assault,...

Canada needs to do more to support the socioeconomic inclusion of migrant women

Migrant women in Canada face challenges to finding productive, well-paid, and rewarding work, and thus feeling ‘integrated’ into Canadian society, according to the new community research report we published today with our member SWAN in Vancouver. Most...

Becoming a GAATW Member

New members are always welcome in the Alliance. If you are a non-governmental organisation committed to promoting a human rights based approach to trafficking and/or other related issues such as migration, labour rights, or women's rights, GAATW's...

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