Events and News

• Who Cares for Our Workers?

  español On this International Workers Day, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) would like to take a moment to honour the legions of workers who have helped us tide through a year of unsettling...

• Feminist Fridays: Conversations about Labour Migration from a Feminist Lens / Viernes feministas:...

  Abajo en español                  Bahasa Indonesia Feminist Fridays: Conversations about Labour Migration from a...

• A Woman's Place is in the Resistance

  español We are celebrating International Women’s Day in the midst of a deadly pandemic and major threats to human rights and freedom. For every one of these challenges, women have been at the forefront of the...

• The IMF Must Immediately Stop Promoting Austerity Around the World

  More than five hundred of the world’s leading charities, social groups and academics have sent a letter to the International Monetary Fund warning that its support programs, which have had to be ramped up to cope with COVID-19, were condemning many countries to years of austerity. We, the undersigned, call on the IMF to immediately stop...

• Global Call for Translators and Interpreters

  Deadline: n/a. This is an ongoing call to roster The International Secretariat of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW-IS) is inviting translators and interpreters to roster their services for short term assignments. 1. About the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) The Global...

• The COVID-19 Crisis is a Wake-up Call to Rethink the World of Work

  español Statement by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women on the occasion of International Workers' Day This year we are celebrating International Workers’ Day in...

• A Feast in Time of COVID-19: The anti-trafficking movement needs to take a step back

  About two weeks ago, in mid-March, one of our colleagues received a message from a Thai journalist asking “Do you think that sex workers will be more vulnerable to trafficking now that the Thai government ordered all entertainment places shut?” In our office WhatsApp chat group, we joked “Well, this [linking COVID-19 to trafficking] didn’t take...