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• ‘How Did I Get Here?’ — A Photographer Captures Women in Mexico’s Brothels

  Authors: Taina Bien-Aimé, CATW Executive Director

  This piece originally appeared in the HuffPost. Ada Luisa Trillo has an eye that pulls you into the world of the searing despair and indelible humanity of her subjects. Her photographs on the walls of the Twenty-Two Gallery in Philadelphia are haunting. Born in El Paso, Texas, Trillo grew up across the border in Ciudad Juárez, deemed one of the mos... Read More...

• From “Sex Work” Advocate to Survivor Leader: A Journey Embraced

  Authors: Taina Bien-Aimé, CATW Executive Director

  This piece originally appeared in HuffPost. Nomonde Mihlali (“Mickey”) Meji is a program associate for Survivor Initiatives at Embrace Dignity in Cape Town, South Africa. Embrace Dignity is dedicated to ending all forms of sexual abuse of women and girls through legal advocacy, public education and exit services for trafficked and prostituted women... Read More...

• French Act on Prostitution and Human Trafficking Turns One!

  Authors: CATW International

  When the French Act Against Prostitution passed in April 2016, France set up a national legal blueprint that:- Decriminalizes prostituted people;- Reinforces the State’s protection of victims of pimping and trafficking;- Offers access to residency permits for foreign victims of trafficking;- Sets up a national exit policy and develops new victims’ ... Read More...

• Abolitionist Legislation Passes in Ireland

  Authors: CATW International

  International Human Rights Group Applauds Ireland for Law Targeting Buyers of Sex Survivors of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking Lead Global Abolitionist Movement New York, Feb. 15, 2017 – The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) commends the Republic of Ireland for the historic passage of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) B... Read More...

• Yellow Cabs and Strip Clubs: New York Sells Inequality

  Authors: Taina Bien-Aimé, CATW Executive Director

  This piece originally appeared in The Huffington Post. I get angry about things, then go on and work.   – Toni Morrison  Gloria Steinem often reminds us that the strongest predictor of whether a country will be violent within its borders, or in its use of military force, is not poverty or access to natural resources, not religio... Read More...

• Blessing The Sex Trade In South Africa: A Sex Trafficking And Prostitution Survivor Testifies

  Authors: Taina Bien-Aimé, CATW Executive Director

  This piece originally appeared in The Huffington Post's The World Post. Grizelda Grootboom recently published “Exit,” a book about her violence-ridden and homeless childhood, sex trafficking, her escape from prostitution and her transformation into one of the most vocal survivor leaders in South Africa committed to ending the sex trade. She sh... Read More...