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Collateral Damage

2007

The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Measures on Human Rights around the World

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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Full Report

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2007

Respect and Relevance: Supporting Self-Organising as a Strategy for Empowerment and Social Change

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Women, Mobility and Reproductive Health

The report provides an assessment of the health conditions and mobility patterns among women migrant workers in Thailand.

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2002

Partners in Change: Stories of Women's Collectives

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. Stigmatized 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

1999

Human Rights and Trafficking in Persons: A Handbook

A broad-based manual, containing general strategies that can be easily adapted to local contexts, this has proved to be an extremely valuable resource for NGOs worldwide. This manual clarifies the concepts of human rights and trafficking in persons and provides concrete rights-based strategies that can be carried out at all levels, from local to international, in the context of trafficking. ( Download in PDF 749 KB)

Also available in Spanish, Russian, Polish (Contact La Strada, Poland)

2001

Human Rights in Practice: A Guide to Assist Trafficked Women and Children

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.

In order to ensure use of this manual by colleagues working in community based groups member organisations of GAATW have translated it into Bahasa Indonesia, Burmese, Chinese, Khmer, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese.

Selected chapters in Vietnamese (Concept of Trafficking, Laws and Legal Processes) versions are available in PDF format.

Click here for a PDF copy of this book in Burmese. Translated by the Shan Women's Action Network

1999

Human Rights Standards for the Treatment of Trafficked Persons

The HRS is a collation of international human rights instruments which can be used to protect the rights of trafficked persons. A joint effort of member organisations and colleagues from like minded groups this has been used as a Lobby Document nationally and internationally.

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1999

The Migrating Woman's Handbook

This manual was developed as part GAATW’s campaign to promote safe migration and fair working conditions. It provides practical information on arranging travel documents, and work permits, workers rights and wages, as well as suggestions on how to protect one’s rights.

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Also available in Bahasa Indonesia (Download the chapter on Know Your Rights! in PDF format).

1997

Trafficking in Women, Forced Labour and Slavery-like Practices

A report presenting the results of an international investigation on trafficking in women, forced labour & slavery-like practices in the contexts of marriage, domestic labour and prostitution, this document marks a major turning point in thinking and activism around trafficking. Initiated in 1995 in response to the invitation of the then UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, (SRVAW) the investigation was carried out by the Dutch Foundation Against Trafficking in Women (STV) and GAATW. A condensed version of the report was submitted to the SRVAW and the complete report was published in 1997.

A reprint with some revision, mainly in the layout and chapter division has been brought out in 1999.

To order a copy, please write to STV, the Netherlands.

1997

Practical Guide to Assisting Trafficked Women

GAATW’s first effort to support groups working at the grassroots level this is handbook contains information gathered from governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and legal and health experts. Written in a clear and simple style, this manual created a forum for discussion on the everyday aspect of anti-trafficking work among practitioners and promoted understanding of the human rights framework. (Out of Print)

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Whores, Maids & Wives, Making Links (1997)