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
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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...
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...
Bangladeshi Ovibashi Mohila Sramik Association (BOMSA) aims to unite and protect the welfare of female migrants of Bangladesh. Founded and operated by returned women migrant workers, BOMSA has been working with internal and external women migrants since 1998 to ensure the protection of migrants’ rights. At that time it was the only voice for female migrants in Bangladesh. BOMSA has been registered with Department of Women’s Affairs, Government of Bangladesh DWA Registration no. Jesbikka/ Dhaka/250, NGO Bureau Reg. No. 1920. BOMSA is operational in eleven districts. Their work continues to shape the lives of many women, who battle against the odds in foreign lands by offering both pre- and post- departure support and training.
Contact Details: Address: 132, Darus Salam (3rd floor), Karlanpur, Mirpur Road, Dhaka-1216. Bangladesh Tel: +8801718405546, +8801819432782 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: bomsa.net
Safe Horizon is the nation’s leading victim assistance organization and serves over 350,000 people each year who have been touched by violence. Safe Horizon’s mission is to provide support, prevent violence, and promote justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families and communities. The Anti-Trafficking Program was established in 2001, to serve trafficked persons in the New York City metropolitan area and is one of the country’s largest providers to survivors of human trafficking. The Anti-Trafficking Program works to provide direct services such as shelter or housing referrals, crisis counseling, and legal assistance to trafficking victims. It also provides national training and community outreach, and operates the New York City Service Network for Trafficked Persons.
The Anti-Trafficking Program utilizes an intensive case management approach in providing direct services to trafficked persons. The Program regularly receives referrals from Federal law enforcement agencies, and service providers to coordinate and provide direct services.
Contact Details:
Address: 50 Court Street, Ste 811, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA Tel: +1 718 943 8649; +1 718 943 8644 Fax: +1 718 943 8653 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: safehorizon.org
The Cambodian Women's Development Agency (CWDA) is an indigenous, non-profit, non-government organisation with a strong feminist agenda. It grew out of the dissolved Phnom Penh Municipality Women’s Association in May 1993 after accreditation by the Supreme National Council.
CWDA is dedicated to promoting the self-reliant development of disadvantaged Cambodian communities and to the advancement of women’s and children’s rights. CWDA seeks to empower women through collective organisation, personal development, skills training, access to resources and advocacy on their behalf. CWDA facilities the active participation of grassroots women in awareness-raising activities on women’s issues, creating favourable local environments for women’s forums and activities.
Research and advocacy projects are also undertaken in support of specific objectives regarding the protection of women’s and children’s rights. For example CWDA has conducted research together with the Cambodian Prostitutes’ Union on Human Rights abuses of prostitutes in Toul Kork. The survey was significant because it was done by the women concerned themselves. It was a rare study that was done by, not about, prostitutes and their lives, working conditions, suffering in the hands of police and clients. The women themselves made recommendations to the government and to society about what should be done to improve their situation.
Contact Details Address: No. 19, Street 242, Boeung Prolit, Khan 7 Makara, Phnom Penh Cambodia Tel: +855 23 210 449 Fax: +855 23 210 487 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Facebook: facebook.com/CambodianWomensDevelopmentAgency
The Buhay Foundation for Women and Girl-Child was established in February 2000. Its mission is to be a women-led organisation that provides a focal point and stimulus for the social, political and economic empowerment of women and the advocacy and defense of the human rights and full development of the Filipino people, particularly women and girls. The foundation aims to examine and address socio-political economic realities from the perspectives of women’s life experiences, and contribute towards socio-cultural transformation processes leading to a positive environment for the recognition, protection and realisation of the rights of Filipino women and girls nationally and internationally.
Contact Details:
Address: P.O Box 190. 1099, Manila, Philippines
Tel:+632 3834424
Fax:+632 4431680
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Bangladeshi Ovibashi Mohila Sramik Association (BOMSA) aims to unite and protect the welfare of female migrants of Bangladesh. Founded and operated by returned women migrant workers, BOMSA has been working with internal and external women migrants since 1998 to ensure the protection of migrants’ rights. At that time it was the only voice for female migrants in Bangladesh. BOMSA has been registered with Department of Women’s Affairs, Government of Bangladesh DWA Registration no. Jesbikka/ Dhaka/250, NGO Bureau Reg. No. 1920. BOMSA is operational in eleven districts. Their work continues to shape the lives of many women, who battle against the odds in foreign lands by offering both pre- and post- departure support and training.
The Cambodian Women's Development Agency (CWDA) is an indigenous, non-profit, non-government organisation with a strong feminist agenda. It grew out of the dissolved Phnom Penh Municipality Women’s Association in May 1993 after accreditation by the Supreme National Council. 
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