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of stakeholders to tackle it, the EU needs to recognise the contribution of one stakeholder that has so far been excluded: sex worker rights organisations. This year the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) conducted research which...
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and own account workers. It includes all work that people do to sustain their livelihood needs. It must include sex workers who are routinely subject to stigma, and undocumented workers and migrants regardless of their immigration status. Given their...
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state in the eastern part of India, where our head office is located. Our first few projects were on HIV/AIDS with female sex workers, on agriculture and livelihoods, and on women’s empowerment in Ramgarh, which is a coal-mining area. Gradually, this...
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“Once again we were excluded from the system,” said Pia Covre, a former sex worker and one of the founders of the Committee for the Civil Rights of Prostitutes (henceforth, Comitato), which promotes the legal recognition and decriminalisation of sex...
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to make it better. I remember a consultation organised by GAATW, AWHRC (Asian Women’s Human Rights Council), SANGRAM (a sex workers’ support group based in Kolhapur, India) and VAMP (a sex workers’ collective based in Sangli, India) in March 1999. It...
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Yasanti which works with women in the informal sector including porters and home-based workers; and OPSI which works with sex workers and sexual minorities. From Thailand, we had Essan Community Foundation which works with migrant workers and women...
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definitions. Furthermore, as prostitution in Germany was legalised in 2000, there was a need for organisations to assist sex workers in circumstances of forced labour. There was a clear need to set up a network. It was like a movement, but a grassroots...
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7 had shelters, and only 128 of us were placed among them. The Nepalese media published negative news, calling us Nepalese sex workers who were infected with HIV. When we arrived at the airport in Nepal, there were big cameras, and lots of people were...
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to our values. Sometimes, we feel like a lonely voice in the US that’s promoting the rights of all people, including sex workers. So, being aligned with GAATW and being able to connect with other organisations globally that are aligned with our values,...
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The second change is that, currently, we have more cases of forced labour. Not only for forced prostitution, as before. Sex work has also changed, thanks to the internet. In my opinion, sex industry in Poland is not as cruel as it was years ago. Now, as...
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retention of identity documents. Physical and Psychological Violence: Of the sectors in this study, domestic workers and sex workers report the most physical and verbal violence: In the case of domestic workers, verbal and physical abuse is exercised by...
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is the result of anti-trafficking advocacy in which people (primarily white cis gendered women) who are involved in sex work are viewed as victims rather than criminals. The anti-prostitution approach to anti-trafficking dominates the Ohio advocacy...
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- Category: Blog
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ASTRA - Anti-Trafficking Action is a member of GAATW in Serbia. In September 2022, Jennifer Janssen from the GAATW Secretariat conducted this interview with Marija Andjelkovic, President of ASTRA, to better understand the organisation’s history,...
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from eleven organisations across four countries. From India there was Women’s Initiative (WINS), which works with sex workers and farmers in Andhra Pradesh; the Kerala unit of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a trade union for women in the...
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español polski svenska français italiano português руский deutsch Sex worker rights organisations are creatively responding to violence, exploitation and other abuses within the sex industry, including instances of human trafficking, according to a new...
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- Category: Publications
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the care of their children, and thus avoid returning to the situation of prostitution. Emilia: Our members who work with sex workers or women in prostitution and victims of trafficking who are migrants have noticed that many times women do not come...
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Strategic Thematic Directionshttps://gaatw.org/strategic-thematic-directions
larger socioeconomic and political factors. This approach results in misguided solutions, such as criminalising clients of sex workers and enforcing migration restrictions, which fail to improve job conditions and instead lead to negative consequences...
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European Sex Workers Rights Alliancehttps://gaatw.org/europe/regional-networks/999-eswa
The European Sex Workers Rightgs Alliance (ESWA; previously, International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, ICRSE) is a sex worker-led network representing more than 100 organisations led by or working with sex workers in 35 countries...
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- Category: Regional Networks
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Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee is a forum of 65 000 sex workers based in West Bengal, India. The basic approach of Durbar’s programme is based on the principle of “3 R’s” - Respect, Reliance and Recognition: Respect towards sex workers, Reliance on...
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- Category: India
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rights setbacks over the last twenty years Lack of national laws and implementation of existing laws; the conflation of sex work and trafficking; and growing right-wing and anti-migrant movements have posed the biggest challenges to the realisation of...
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