Human Rights
at home, abroad and on the way....
Human Rights
at home, abroad and on the way...
This report presents two joint submissions prepared for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), highlighting the human rights challenges faced by migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia. Part 1 is a joint submission by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) and our member Sema...
Over the past two decades, GAATW has consistently explored issues related to access to justice for migrant and trafficked women who have struggled with judicial processes due to discriminatory practices that prevent them from claiming their rights. This new report highlights the stereotypes and prejudices of decision-makers that continue to...
18 October 2024 For the PDF version, please click here. The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is an Alliance of more than 100 non-governmental organisations from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and North America. GAATW views human trafficking within...
As a joint effort among organisations supporting Sex Workers rights, GAATW submitted a statement for the 56th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. As part of a delegation of representatives of Sex Workers groups and organisations, Sabra Boyd from Sex Workers and Survivors United, a member organisation of our US member organisation...
Opinion by Maya Linstrum-Newman and Nadine Gloss • May 30, 2024 This...
Global Alliance against Traffic in Women February 2024 About GAATW The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is an Alliance of non-governmental organisations from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Member organisations work to promote the rights of migrants and survivors...
25 April 2024 On 23 of April, during its last plenary meeting of this mandate, the EU parliament adopted the final text of the recast of the EU anti-trafficking Directive1. We, the undersigned non-governmental human rights organisations, welcome some progress that has been made in the revised Directive. It is positive that sanctions for...
Women Rehabilitation Center (WOREC) is a member of GAATW based in Lalitpur, Nepal. Vivian Cartagena from the GAATW Secretariat conducted this interview with Sunita Mainali, Executive Directo, in July 2024, to better understand the organisation’s history, current work, and context.
Leer entrevista en español aquí.
Fundación Quimera is a non-profit organization working to promote human and labor rights of Sex Workers in southern Ecuador, focused in migrants and national women. Vivian Cartagena, from the GAATW International Secretariat interviewed Rosa Manzo, Founder and President of Fundacion Quimera, in July 2024 to better understand the organisation's work, history, and context. The original interview was in Spanish and translated into English.
National Workers Welfare Trust (NWWT), India, was established in 2017 with the vision to create a just society where all domestic women migrant workers are treated with dignity and justice and recognised for the contribution that they make towards the family, economy, and development. Working in the Indian states of Telangana and Andra Pradesh, NWWT brings women workers from the various self-employed trades together to discuss concerns and rights on their health, education for children, welfare services, and labour rights, both at the rural/urban grassroots level and national scales. NWWT advocates for rights, repatriation, and reintegration of women migrant domestic workers, both nationally and internationally.
Contact detail:
Website: https://nationalworkersmovement.wordpress.com/
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Launched in 2010, the Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) began as a grassroots collective of Lebanese feminist activists and migrant domestic workers living in Lebanon, and has been aregistered non-profit organization for over thirteen years. As migrant workers are unable to register their own organizations, ARM is one of few organizations in Lebanon focusing specifically on migrant workers, and one of even fewer working with migrant workers on long-term and sustainable change with an anti-racism approach. They work to abolish the Kafala system and build an alternative future for all migrant workers and racialized groups in Lebanon, with a specific focus on migrant domestic workers. Their theory of change shifts the positionality of migrant workers from“beneficiaries” to leaders and agents of change, taking a migrant-centered and feminist approach throughout their programming.
Contact details:
Address: Jisr El-Wati, Street 90, Zone 66, Building 110, first floor, Beirut, Achrafieh
Tel: (+961) 21-428338
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Website: https:www.armlebanon.org
La Strada Poland is a member of GAATW in Warsaw, Poland. In May 2024, Vivian Cartagena from the GAATW secretariat conducted this interview with Joanna Garnier, member of La Strada, to learn more about the work of the organisation, the contexts in which it operates, and the communities it supports.
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