Lee la entrevista en español aquí Fachstelle Frauenhandel und Frauenmigration (FIZ – Advocacy and Support for Migrant Women and Victims of Trafficking) is a member of GAATW based in Zurich, Switzerland. Jennifer Janssen from the GAATW Secretariat...
Last week the European Commission presented the EU’s new priority actions for addressing trafficking in human beings, broadly combined under three themes: stepping up the fight against organised criminal networks, providing trafficked persons with...
Lee la entrevista en español aquí ESWA (European Sex Workers Rights Alliance) is a member organisation of GAATW in Europe. In July 2022, Emilia Cebrián from the GAATW secretariat conducted this interview with Sabrina Sánchez, Coordinator of ESWA, to...
Rights and Justice in the Context of Labour Migration Access to justice remains a significantly underserved right for migrant workers. Very few migrant workers, whether in countries of work or upon returning home are able to access sufficient support...
On Human Rights Day, a global alliance of migrant rights and anti-trafficking organisations names the top three human rights setbacks over the last twenty years Lack of national laws and implementation of existing laws; the conflation of sex work and...
Asia Europe Americas Asia Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Returnee Migrant Women Workers in Nepal The Women’s Rehabilitation Center (WOREC), with support from the GAATW Secretariat, carried out a survey among Nepali women migrants who returned...
Statement by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women to the United Nations Constructive Dialogue on Trafficking in Persons, 1 July 2022, Vienna Read the statement below or view it read out by Maya Linstrum-Newman, International Advocacy Officer at...
“Once again we were excluded from the system,” said Pia Covre, a former sex worker and one of the founders of the Committee for the Civil Rights of Prostitutes (henceforth, Comitato), which promotes the legal recognition and decriminalisation of sex...
Jennifer Suchland, Associate Professor, Ohio State University, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, suchland.15@osu.edu, @mightykale What is the relationship between policing, state violence and anti-trafficking? That is the question we should...
español polski svenska français italiano português руский deutsch Sex worker rights organisations are creatively responding to violence, exploitation and other abuses within the sex industry, including instances of human trafficking, according to a new...
Genera - Asociacion en Defensa de los Derechos de las Mujeres is an organisation based in Catalonia. Its work is aimed at defending and claiming rights from a gender perspective. Sex work, migration and trafficking in women are all in its fields of...
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee is a forum of 65 000 sex workers based in West Bengal, India. The basic approach of Durbar’s programme is based on the principle of “3 R’s” - Respect, Reliance and Recognition: Respect towards sex workers, Reliance on...
On 3 March, International Sex Workers Rights Day, Rep. Ro Khanna, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Barbara Lee and Sen. Ron Wyden made history by re-introducing the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act (SSWSA) with the support of 70 different organisations from...
Migration bans do not protect the rights of women, only push them into taking more risky options On International Women’s Day GAATW-IS issued a statement calling for an end to restrictions on the migration of women domestic workers, particularly in...
Pro-tukipiste (Pro Support Centre) provides low-threshold social and health services and legal counselling in Helsinki and Tampere for current and former workers in the sex or erotic services industry and for victims of trafficking in human beings. The...
Next week GAATW will be at the 13th UN Crime Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. We will be co-organising some events as well as speaking on a couple of other panels. Come and say hello if you're there!
The European Sex Workers Rightgs Alliance (ESWA; previously, International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, ICRSE) is a sex worker-led network representing more than 100 organisations led by or working with sex workers in 35 countries...
What is migration? What is smuggling? What is trafficking in persons? What is child trafficking? What is slavery? What is forced labour? What is exploitation? What is debt bondage? What is 'demand'? What is migration? Migration is where a person moves...
Like other countries, Mexico is facing high inflation, as the consumer price index reached 8.7% in September, the highest level in 22 years. The high prices of goods and services will continue for the rest of the year, according to estimates by the...
Knowledge-sharing forum Women, Work and Migration On 7-9 April, GAATW, with the support of the ILO, organised a three-day regional Knowledge-Sharing Forum on Women, Work and Migration in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Focusing on South Asia, the Forum gathered...
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