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Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women

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

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Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women

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

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E-Bulletin August 2018 - News from our member organisations

20th Anniversary of Intervention Centre for Trafficked Women (LEFÖ-IBF) On 5-6 June, LEFÖ – Intervention Centre for Trafficked Women organised an international conference in Vienna entitled ‘Trafficking in Women 1998-2018: Same Old, Same Old’ to mark...

Interview: Reflecting back and looking forward

In 2015 four of our European members – Ban Ying (Germany), LEFÖ (Austria), La Strada (European network) and FIZ (Switzerland) celebrated important anniversaries. GAATW-IS congratulates them for their continued commitment to improving the lives of...

The Sex Workers Project (SWP)

Created in December 2001, the Sex Workers Project (SWP) is the first program in New York City and in the United States to focus on the provision of legal services, legal training, documentation, and policy advocacy for sex workers. Using a harm...

GAATW in Times of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic and its harsh containment measures have had disastrous consequences for billions of workers globally. Migrant workers, workers in the informal economy and people without any social security have been hit the hardest. States have...

‘It’s not bad to be single’: New video by AFRO

In April, AFRO-Hong Kong released a video titled It’s not bad to be single, in which Sum, a sex worker in Hong Kong, shares her story about working in the industry, her experiences with clients, and her struggles after she decided to get a divorce. In...

PION – Prostituertes interesseorganisasjon I Norge

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...

Joint NGO Statement on recast EU Anti-Trafficking Directive

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...

E-Bulletin January 2018 - At the beginning of a new year...

versión en español Dear friends, It’s been a whole year since we published our last English-language bulletin. We were caught in a whirlwind of projects activities, deadlines, conferences, and workshops, and we had less time for reflection and...

GAATW-CANADA

GAATW-Canada was launched in September 1996 to address human trafficking issues and to network with women’s organisations locally and globally. Its aim is not to stop the migration of women, but to safeguard and promote the human rights of women who...

Supporting Women's Alternatives Network (SWAN)

Since 2002, Supporting Women's Alternatives Network (SWAN), has provided support to im/migrant sex workers in Greater Vancouver. Im/migrant sex workers face multi-layered stigma, racism, and criminalization. Because of this, they are also unable to...

FAQs

Trafficking in Persons is an issue of growing concern in the international community and is now recognised as a global phenomenon, yet what exactly is trafficking? GAATW receives regular requests for information about trafficking, to help individuals,...

Human Resource Development Foundation

The Human Resource Development Foundation, established in 1988, implements programmes to contribute to the solution of problems stemming from irregular population movements and to eliminate the factors that hinder social development. HRDF has expertise...

Brigada Callejera

Brigada Callejera (Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer “Elisa Martínez”) is a non-governmental organisation that has been working with sex workers in Mexico since 1995. Brigada offers education and many other services to help sex workers find dignity...

Action for REACH OUT (AFRO)

Action for REACH OUT (AFRO) was formed in 1993 to foster the self-representation of sex workers and to provide necessary services and support to women working within the commercial sex industry in Hong Kong as well as women coming to Hong Kong from...

Corporación Espacios de Mujer

Corporación Espacios de Mujer is an NGO that works in Medellin and Antioquia Department in Colombia. It develops programmes to prevent human trafficking and support people (especially women) victims and survivors of human trafficking, migrants returned...

History

The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) was founded in 1994 at a conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where participants were concerned about the contemporary discourse and activism around trafficking in women. The Alliance was born of a...