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22nd November, 2023 For the PDF version, go here. GAATW International Secretariat and members stand in solidarity with Bangladeshi garment workers who are protesting the new minimum wage proposed by the Labour Department, which is much lower than the...
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Borislav Gerasimov, 21 January 2020 A slightly modified version of this blog first appeared on Beyond Trafficking and Slavery The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) was founded in 1994 by a group of feminists and women’s rights advocates...
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Meet our members: LEFÖhttps://gaatw.org/members/meet-our-members/1181-meet-our-members-lefoe
Lee la entrevista en español aquí LEFÖ – Information, Education and Support for Migrant Women is GAATW’s member in Austria. Maya Linstrum-Newman from the GAATW Secretariat conducted this interview with Isabella Chen from the LEFÖ-IBF (Intervention...
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We are ‘On Your Side’https://gaatw.org/?view=article&id=1268:we-are-on-your-side&catid=224
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic was a litmus test for existing racism and discriminatory practices. A research report from the United Kingdom showed that, ‘according to U.K. police data there was a rise of 300% in hate crimes towards ESEA people in...
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Dear Friends, We bring you the October issue of Our Work, Our Lives today. The theme of this month is Intersecting Struggles: Food, Land & Climate Justice. We said last month that we would continue with the topic of food in October. We wanted to hear...
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Dear friends, The March issue of Our Work, Our Lives focuses on music. Songs and music have always been powerful tools to inspire and mobilise people. They have been an integral part of social justice movements and the feminist movements have a...
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Sixty CSO activists, trade unionists and representatives of migrant rights, women’s rights, worker rights and Dalit and Adivasi rights groups across India met over three days in August 2019 to think collectively about how a cross-sectoral movement...
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Opinion by Maya Linstrum-Newman and Nadine Gloss • May 30, 2024 This article was originally published on PassBlue. Major progress has been made in the debate on sex workers’ rights through a recent paper, “Eliminating discrimination against sex workers...
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Statement by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women on the occasion of International Women’s Day Stringent border control has often been used as a measure to stop human trafficking and members of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women...
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RJ-ing to Collectivisehttps://gaatw.org/?view=article&id=1285:rj-ing-to-collectivise&catid=224
During the Voice and Participation meeting in Chiang Mai in February 2023, the room was delighted when Pim introduced herself as the community organiser at MAP Foundation and radio jockey at the MAP radio station. Her role as Radio jockey (RJ) at the...
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Statement by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women on International Women’s Day 2020 Women migrant workers experience a continuum of gender-based violence and harassment, ranging from insults to severe physical abuse, sexual assault,...
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In the past several decades globalisation, unequal development between and within countries, and conflict and environmental degradation, have prompted unprecedented levels of international migration. It is estimated that there are currently nearly 250...
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In 2018-2019, the International Secretariat of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW-IS), in collaboration with eleven organisations across nine countries in Asia, carried out a Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) on “Safe and...
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Astrid Renland, PION, 4 May 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has hit people engaged with sex work in Norway extremely hard both due to the lack of income and other financial problems, as well as the shutting down of health and social services for people...
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Maggi Quadrini When COVID-19 lockdown measures in Thailand went into effect in March 2020, radio DJ Kaung Tip wasn’t able to go and broadcast her program at the recording station in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Before the pandemic started...
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Who Cares for Our Workers?https://gaatw.org/news/1100-who-cares-for-our-workers
español On this International Workers Day, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) would like to take a moment to honour the legions of workers who have helped us tide through a year of unsettling crisis. During the pandemic, our physical,...
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Last week the European Commission presented the EU’s new priority actions for addressing trafficking in human beings, broadly combined under three themes: stepping up the fight against organised criminal networks, providing trafficked persons with...
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Dear friends, Every year from 25 November (International Day Against Violence Against Women) to 10 December (International Human Rights Day), thousands of organisations around the world, run the 16 Days Campaign to End Gender Based Violence. Launched...
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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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Berlin, July 2023 1. Background and Context Over the last three years GAATW, together with ten partners from Southeast Asia and Europe, has used a feminist participatory action research methodology to learn about the experiences of 259 Southeast Asian...
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