Events and News

• 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...

• 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, psychological abuse, bullying and intimidation. This gender-based violence cannot...

• Violence and harassment faced by women migrant workers in Latin America

  Women migrant workers across Latin America endure extreme violence in order to be able to provide for their families, according to research carried out among workers in the garment, domestic, service, sex and hawking sectors. Economic precarity was the driving factor for accepting poverty wages and poor working conditions: Workers in...

• Against the Grain: Fighting Corporate Agriculture through Women’s Solidarity

  Leah Sullivan Thirty years ago, the village of Pastapur was struggling. Dalit and Adivasi (indigenous) people who lived there did so in poverty, surviving from tiny plots of inhospitable land. Many more were landless agricultural labourers, eking out a living from neighboring farms. Hunger was a constant threat, and young people...