Assuming sex is required, and work is required, the following 114 results were found.
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Ban Ying is a member of GAATW working in the city of Berlin, Germany. In June 2023, we interviewed Lea Rakovsky, Project Coordinator of the organisation, to know about the journey, work and approach of the organisation throughout the years. The...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: Meet our Members
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Structurehttps://www.gaatw.org/who-we-are/structure
He has also volunteered for organisations supporting Roma youth, LGBTI people, people living with HIV/AIDS, and sex workers. Email: atr@gaatw.org Dewi Nova Wahyuni Consultant (part-time) Dewi Nova is responsible for engagement with members and partners...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: About
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Fundación Libera is a GAATW member in Chile. Vivian Cartagena from the GAATW Secretariat conducted this interview with the organisation’s founder, Carolina Rudnick, in July 2023 to better understand their work, history and context. The interview was...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: Meet our Members
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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...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: News
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Over the past two decades there has been a growing body of academic and community-based literature on sex workers’ lives and work. However, the discourses, laws, and policies that impact sex workers are continually changing, and critical perspectives...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: Anti-Trafficking Review
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Strategic Thematic Directionshttps://www.gaatw.org/what-we-do/strategic-thematic-directions
and political issues. Simplistic narratives lead to simplistic “solutions”, such as the criminalisation of clients of sex workers, or restrictions on women’s migration, as well as, more broadly, stricter law enforcement and border controls. Such...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: Strategic Thematic Directions
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vs. the extraordinary language that NGOs and policy-makers use. We also discuss social actors' preoccupation with sex work and the rise of the 'rescue industry'.
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- Author: Super User
- Category: Webinars
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lowest pay and poorest working conditions, including domestic work, brick kiln work, garment work, construction work and sex work. Our discussions drew a challenging overall picture for our movements in India today: a growing asymmetry of power between...
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- Author: Administrator
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Meet our members: LEFÖhttps://www.gaatw.org/members/meet-our-members/1181-meet-our-members-lefoe
group of women to an institution with several different areas of work. These include counselling for migrant sex workers, education and language courses for migrant women, counselling for Latin American women, and an intervention centre for trafficked...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: Meet our Members
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Lee la entrevista en español aqui Espacios de Mujer is a GAATW member based in Medellín, Colombia. Jennifer Janssen of the GAATW Secretariat conducted this interview with Betty Pedraza Lozano, founder and director of Espacios de Mujer, in December 2022...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: Meet our Members
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deported as irregular migrants. This is pointed out in the paper from Denmark, written by an NGO working with migrant sex workers and victims of trafficking. Those who are identified as victims of trafficking are granted a one-month recovery and...
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that do comform to the international definition. This approach has had a particularly damaging effect on the rights of sex workers. In states which hold the ideological position that all sex work is inherently exploitative, by removing the ‘means’...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: News
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agricultural communities face, and those faced by the women workers who migrate for work in the garment, domestic and sex work sectors - that of a marginalised group under the pressures of patriarchy, corporate greed and a State in retreat. Migration...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: News
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measures to prevent trafficking in the sex industry through the criminalisation of the purchase of sex end up harming sex workers while doing very little to reduce either sex work, or trafficking. Measures to end demand for trafficked and exploited...
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- Author: Administrator
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– at least 150 years old. And in all these years, the words traffic and trafficking have been associated with women in sex work, and “white slavery”. This is important, because today, as in the nineteenth century, trafficking is conceptualised as a...
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- Author: Administrator
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Crime, Article 8 [42] See for example, Amnesty International, The human cost of ‘crushing’ the market: Criminalization of sex work in Norway, AI Index: EUR/36/4034/2016, at p.12, reporting a representative of Oslo police district stating that: “We...
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- Author: Administrator
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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...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: United States
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feeling the greatest impact of the eight-year ban. The bars gave women from the Nat community an opportunity to quit sex work. Many women came to Mumbai and started earning well enough to ensure their sisters and daughters got a good education and never...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: News
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at me and told me to stay and work in the same house otherwise they will send me back after getting their damage money.” Sex workers in Mexico reported threats, gang rape, false accusations and extortion by the police: “They ask us 200 pesos a day to...
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- Author: Administrator
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work, and other forms of care work etc, which tend to be classed as “low‐skilled.” Other gendered sectors, such as sex work, are left wholly unrecognised and unregulated, leaving women migrants in these sectors undocumented and unable to access the...
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- Author: Administrator
- Category: News