On today’s International S*x Workers’ Rights Day, our Human Trafficking Programme Lead, Maya, spoke to Women on the Line @ 3RC Radical Radio about the alliance to fight anti-sex worker rights actors at the UN and in other international policy spaces: www.3cr.org.au/womenontheli...

Last November we held a consultation with feminist activists, scholars and anti-trafficking experts to ask whether we should be looking to alternatives to the criminal law to achieve justice for victims of trafficking. Here is what we found out: gaatw.org/resources/pu...

Critical Analysis of Criminal Law Approaches to Trafficking in Persons: A report of the consultation

GAATW sees the phenomenon of human trafficking as intrinsically embedded in the context of migration for the purpose of labour.

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New working paper! "Crisis in Care" examines how care work is defined, structured, and governed in Japan and South Korea, and how these frameworks shape the experiences of migrant care workers. #InternationalMigrantsDay gaatw.org/crisis-in-care

Read our new Report, as well as our Policy Summary, here: labourexploitation.org/publications...

Labour exploitation in the fishing sector is not simply a matter of individual bad actors; it is underpinned by legal and regulatory gaps. Our new report, out on #HumanRightsDay, provides an in-depth analysis of the seafarer visa, and the impact on migrant fishers.

In this special piece for Human Rights Day, our members remind us why defending human rights matters, from their different angles of their work. Their voices come from on-going efforts of community organising, their work on the field, borders, shelters, and other spaces around the world. 🌎

IN NOBODY'S SERVICE An exhibition expanding on research into images and stereotypes of Thai and Filipina women and queer people in Germany. It connects diasporic artists to address sex work, care labor, gender, and migration, foregrounding healing, intimacy, and liberation. unthaitled.org

Our Human Trafficking Lead @mayal-n.bsky.social has written about the growing attack on sexual freedoms, the (mis)use of anti-trafficking frameworks to do so, + the opportunity it has given us to join an incredible alliance of feminist LGBTI rights activists: www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

A bizarre new alliance is coming after sexual freedoms

Radical feminists and religious groups teamed up against sex work. Now they’re going after broader reproductive freedoms

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Migration and Care Podcast is live! We will explore care systems and policies, community care initiatives, and the vital role of migrant care workers. Today, Pedro Moreno of Anem Per Feina, will discuss their involvement in the City of Care program and share valuable lessons learned. Link in bio!

We’re launching our Migration and Care podcast next week! This series will explore care systems, community care, and the vital role of migrant care workers. Episode 1 takes us to Barcelona, where care is recognised as a public infrastructure. Join and listen to Pedro Moreno from Anem Per Feina!

Important research from our European member @lastradaint.bsky.social on human trafficking for the exploitation of surrogacy. They find that cases are rare and regulations + clear safeguards allow surrogacy to be ethically and safely undertaken: documentation.lastradainternational.org/doc-center/3...

SEEAC, built by and for East and Southeast Asian migrants in the UK, continues to grow as a space of care and collective resistance. Vivian Cartagena from GAATW spoke with Executive Director, Mariko Hayashi, about its 5-years journey. Read full article: gaatw.org/members/meet...

GAATW celebrates the 30 years of our member in India Shramajivi Mahila Samity (SMS)! 💛 From organising grassroots women and supporting single women to fighting for land, forest, and water rights, SMS has been a force for justice in Jharkhand. GAATW is proud to partner with them for many more years!

Thirty years ago, @lastradaint.bsky.social began laying the foundation for a strong European platform against human trafficking. Today, we celebrate three decades of advocacy, collaboration, and impact!🎉✊ GAATW looks forward to continuing this work, supporting trafficked persons, especially women!

🚨 The EU’s new “Return Regulation” is really a Deportation Regulation. It expands detention, weakens safeguards & creates profit for private contractors — at the expense of people’s dignity & communities. 207 organisations say: Reject it. bit.ly/47KzXqi #StopDeportationRegulation

In August, GAATW interviewed Daniel Melese Areda, founder of our new member Nigat Global Initiative (NGI) in Ethiopia. Daniel shared with us how NGI centres survivors and communities in anti-trafficking work and envisions systemic change. Read the full interview here: gaatw.org/members/meet...

GAATW is following the discussions at the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Mexico City from August 12-15, 2025. Read the full article here: fb.com/share/p/1Amn... #XVIConferenciaMujerALC

Established in 2003 by returnee women migrants, Pourakhi Nepal defends the rights and well-being of Nepali migrant workers. Vivian Cartagena from GAATW spoke with co-founder Manju Gurung on their journey and vision. Read the full article here: gaatw.org/members/meet...

For today's World Day Against Trafficking, GAATW spoke with Flora Enifo, Community Organiser from MIST in Paris. Flora shared how they support Nigerian women affected by trafficking, and the challenges faced by migrant communities in France. Read the full interview here: tinyurl.com/yn54c97u

Check out our latest interview with Jan Vikas Samiti, #GAATW’s new member from #India, working to advance the rights of women, children, and persons with disabilities. Learn about their journey and hopes for inter-regional collaboration: gaatw.org/members/meet...

Across the US and beyond, national security is being used as a cover to criminalise migrants, refugees & trafficked persons. Mass deportations, racial profiling & detention without due process are on the rise, targeting working-class, undocumented communities. Read our statement: bit.ly/3HVRf8J

In Geneva? Join us on 25 June for a side event titled "Beyond Conflation: A Rights-Based Approach to Trafficking and Sex Work" organised in collaboration with @gaatw-is.bsky.social‬ , @eswa-network.bsky.social‬ , FIZ Fachstelle Frauenhandel und Frauenmigration , Tiyane Vavasate and the CASW .

At HRC59 SRI, Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), @gaatw-is.bsky.social‬ , @eswa-network.bsky.social‬ and @fiz-fachstelle.bsky.social‬ , will host a side event titled “Beyond Conflation: A Rights-Based Approach to Trafficking and Sex Work”. Save the date!

On International Domestic Workers’ Day, we honour the leadership, strength, and resistance of domestic workers fighting for dignity and justice. +

In honour of International Sex Workers Day, we reflect on our decades-long commitment to amplifying the voices of sex workers and challenging harmful anti-trafficking frameworks.

"One option would be for the anti-trafficking sector to be dismantled, and for each area to focus on its own niche – whether that’s migrant rights, sex worker rights, violence against women...." My interview with Borislav Gerasimov from @gaatw-is.bsky.social. www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Twenty years of slow progress: Is anti-trafficking changing?

Two decades in, Anti-Trafficking Review’s editor says maybe activists still don’t understand social change

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Our member, @eswa-network.bsky.social, is organising a coordinated day of action across Europe on 2 June. RSVP to join on- or offline below.

ESWA@eswa-network.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Only one week left until the celebration of the century! With actions all over Europe and Central Asia, we wish we could be everywhere at once. And we can! All the events will be live streamed on ESWA channels.

We published a new #CallForPapers for a special issue that will analyse the policies and practices that enable or prevent the exploitation of domestic/care workers and intimate labourers. See the call here: antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

A look at how the anti-trafficking field has evolved in the last decade from our favourite "anti-trafficking killjoys" at Beyond Trafficking and Slavery 👇

Beyond Slavery@beyondslavery.bsky.social · last yr.

Ten years ago, we decided to place trafficking at the centre of our analysis. We made the wrong decision. 🧵 ✍️ @joelquirk.bsky.social @drellac.bsky.social & Cameron Thibos bit.ly/3ZmPRBY

La versión en español de nuestro primer boletín electrónico del año ya está disponible! Conoce las últimas novedades de GAATW: desde sus actividades en el IMCC hasta el Foro de AWID, el lanzamiento de nuestro sitio web renovado y una nueva publicación +