BEYOND BORDERS: Exploring Trafficking's Links to Gender, Migration, Labour, Globalisation and Security
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GAATW Working Paper Series 2010This series of Working Papers explores links between trafficking and gender: trafficking and labour; and trafficking and migration. The complexities in people's lives cannot be captured by one story or approach alone, whether that approach is anti-trafficking, women's rights, human rights, migrant rights, or labour rights. In other words, a person's life cannot be summarised as being merely that of "trafficked person" or "migrant worker", as often happens.
Each of the Working Papers depicts numerous examples of migrant women exercising agency.
- Exploring Links between Trafficking and Gender
- Exploring Links between Trafficking, Globalisation, and Security
- Exploring Links between Trafficking and Labour
- Exploring Links between Trafficking and Migration
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A Woman’s Life is Richer than Her Trafficking Experience
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Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) Series
This CD contains the results of the Feminist Participatory Action Research organised by GAATW. It demonstrates the ways in which women are taking action and steering change in their communities. It shares their stories of resilience, hope and strength; it reveals the complexities of their lives; and raises their voices so we can hear them loudly and clearly, and take action.
The Realities and Agency of Informal Sector Workers:The Account of Migrant Women Workers in Nairobi
Migración y Trabajo: Mujeres Migrantes Haitianas: Investigación Feminista de Acción Participativa
‘Am Only Saying It Now’: Experiences of Women Seeking Asylum in Ireland
Female Temporary Circular Migration and Rights Protection in the Strawberry Sector in Huelva, Spain
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Agency has always been at the core to GAATW’s message, and this topic was further looked at in a 2nd Roundtable (February and March, 2009). This Roundtable focused on ‘macro’ issues such as trade, security regimes, and global economics, and their impact on migrant and trafficked women and their space for agency and decision-making.
This specific research report seeks to contribute to this on-going analysis by GAATW by looking at these issues in the context of a programme of female temporary migration within the agriculture sector in Huelva, Spain; we aim to connect macroeconomics to a micro example of reality lived on the ground.
Respect and Relevance: Supporting self-organising as a strategy for empowerment and social change
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The report features self-organised members in the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW). Discussions highlighted the importance of empowering internal relationships within the organisation and respectful partnerships with external stakeholders, organising processes that accomodated women's individual circumstances and needs, and the need to have opportunities where women could learn from shared experiences with other women.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Measures on Human Rights around the World
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This report reviews the impact of anti-trafficking measures on human rights in 8 countries: Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, India, Nigeria, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Each country chapter provides an overview of human trafficking, the current legal framework concerning all aspects of anti-trafficking efforts, specific laws and policies and their implications on key groups of people, and a critical analysis of the human rights impact of these measures specifically on women. This anthology emphasises the critical need for a re-assessment of anti-trafficking initiatives around the globe in order that human rights do not get written off as ‘collateral damage’ in combating human trafficking.
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Women, Mobility and Reproductive Health
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The report provides an assessment of the health conditions and mobility patterns among women migrant workers in Thailand.
Partners in Change: Stories of women's collectives
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This is a collection of stories of Women’s Collectives, but these are not the mainstream groups about whom we read everyday. The women featured in this booklet do not have much formal education, nor do they have the advantage of wealth. Stigmatised in their communities as ‘prostitutes’ or ‘trafficked women’ they have endured humiliation and yet come together to claim their space in society.
Read about Langson women’s Group; Vietnam, Shakti Samuha; Nepal, Dok Orr Women’s Group, Thailand, Cambodia Prostitutes Union, Phnompenh, EMPOWER Foundation, Thailand, Durjoy & Ulka; Bangladesh and many more…
See also - Partners in Change - a Conference Report
Human Rights in Practice: A guide to assist trafficked women and children
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This is the result of a collaborative effort involving a number of activists from South East Asia. The manual aims to promote direct assistance for trafficked women and children within a human rights framework.