Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women

The Glob­al Alliance Against Traf­fic in Women (GAATW) is an Alliance of  more than 80 non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tions from Africa, Asia, Europe, LAC and North Amer­i­ca. The GAATW Inter­na­tion­al Sec­re­tari­at is based in Bangkok, Thai­land and co-ordi­nates the activ­i­ties of the Alliance, col­lects and dis­sem­i­nates infor­ma­tion, and advo­cates on behalf of the Alliance at region­al and inter­na­tion­al levels.

Mem­ber Organ­i­sa­tions include migrant rights organ­i­sa­tions; anti-traf­fick­ing organ­i­sa­tions; self-organ­ised groups of migrant work­ers, domes­tic work­ers, sur­vivors of traf­fick­ing and sex work­ers; human rights and wom­en’s rights organ­i­sa­tions; and direct ser­vice providers.

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

GAATW there­fore pro­motes and defends the human rights of all migrants and their fam­i­lies against the threat of an increas­ing­ly glob­alised labour mar­ket and calls for safe­ty stan­dards for migrant work­ers in the process of migra­tion and in the for­mal and infor­mal work sec­tors — gar­ment and food pro­cess­ing, agri­cul­ture and farm­ing, domes­tic work, sex work — where slav­ery-like con­di­tions and prac­tices exist.

GAATW is com­mit­ted to effect­ing change at the local lev­el through its Mem­bers and allies, and inter­na­tion­al­ly through the work of the Inter­na­tion­al Sec­re­tari­at and GAATW’s spe­cial con­sul­ta­tive sta­tus to the Eco­nom­ic and Social Coun­cil (ECOSOC) of the Unit­ed Nations.