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...
Corporación Espacios de Mujer is an NGO that works in Medellin and Antioquia Department in Colombia. It develops programmes to prevent human trafficking and support people (especially women) victims and survivors of human trafficking, migrants returned to Colombia and women in prostitution. Using a gender and human rights perspective, it empowers people to recover and claim their rights.
Espacios de Mujer provides comprehensive assistance in order to support victims through to the complete restoration of their rights, emphasising the accompaniment and psychosocial counselling. Only when victims manage their pain, process their experiences, and tell their story, can they effectively rebuild their lives and become survivors.
Contact Details: Address: Carrera 42 # 49 - 45 (Córdoba con Ayacucho), Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia Tel: +57 4 239 83 51 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: espaciosdemujer.org
Fundación Renacer aims to contribute to the eradication of the commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. The organisation works in the areas of research, prevention, integral assistance to victims, advocacy and lobbying, as well as the promotion of the participation of children and adolescents from a perspective of respect, defence and restitution of the rights of the child.
Contact Details:
Address: Calle 76 Bis 20c - 51 Bogotá, Colombia
Tel: +57 8 05 02 17; +57 2 48 65 42
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Sindicato de Trabajadoras Deomesticas (SINTRASEDOM) is a self-organised group with members in different cities of Colombia: Cali, Medellin and Bogota. SINTRASEDOM is also a member of COLACTRAHO (Confederacion Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Trabajadoras del Hogar).
SINTRASEDOM’s vision is to inform, build the capacity of, and strengthen women domestic workers who are vulnerable to abuse, sexual violence and labour exploitation, so that the rights of domestic workers are recognised and that women domestic workers are “strengthened in responsible decision making and the construction of a project for their lives.”
Contact Details: Tel: +57-300 460 3377 +57-315 323 2406 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
COIN is an NGO that focuses on the promotion and protection of the human rights of trafficked women through prevention and direct assistance to victims. COIN opened a shelter for returned trafficked women in 2003 so that trafficked women can receive medical, psychological and legal assistance as well as training for socioeconomic reintegration.
Contact Details Address: Calle Anibal Espinoza 352, Villas Agricolas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Tel: +809 6811515 Fax: +809 2454336 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: http://coin.org.do
ECPAT Guatemala is a non-profit organisation dedicated to combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children. ECPAT Guatemala was established in 1998. It works with governmental institutions and non-governmental organisations through a four-tier programme, which involves research, prevention, training and monitoring. It works to raise awareness of commercial sexual exploitation of children among all sectors of Guatemalan society including government, civil society, religious, adults and children. In addition, it develops prevention activities, provides training to government officials, NGO staff and other social actors, reviews relevant legislation and mechanisms of justice administration, and monitors their implementation.
Contact Details: Address: 11 Av. 10-67 Zona 2 Ciudad Nueva CP Zona 2, Guatemala Tel: +502 22 547916/ 548698 Fax: +502 22 547916 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: ecpatguatemala.org
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