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Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women

Human Rights
at home, abroad and on the way...

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Meet our Members: European Sex Workers Alliance

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...

E-bulletin December 2020 - News from GAATW members

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...

Criminalisation alone cannot end trafficking in persons

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...

“Nessuna da sola”: No One Left Behind

“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...

Anti-trafficking, Policing, and State Violence

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...

Genera - Association en Defensa de los Derechois de las Mujeres

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 Mahil Samanwaya Committee (DMSC)

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...

Pro-tukipiste

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...

GAATW at the 13th UN Crime Congress

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!

European Sex Workers Rights Alliance

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...

FAQ: Understanding Trafficking in Persons

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...

How inflation in Mexico is pushing sex workers into destitution

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...

E-Bulletin May 2018 - News from the International Secretariat

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...