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• New York-Based Organizations Applaud NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson for His Commitment to Criminal Justice Reform

  Authors: Multiple

  Speaker Johnson’s Call for the Equality Model is the right step to protect and promote the well-being of those who are sex trafficked and individuals in the sex trade while holding accountable those who harm them.As leading direct service providers, women’s rights, anti-trafficking and youth activists, immigrant, gender and racial justice advocates... Read More...

• Filling the Sex Trade Swamp: Robert Kraft and His Predecessors

  Authors: Janice G. Raymond, CATW Board Member

  Janice Raymond, CATW's board treasurer and professor emerita of Women’s Studies and Medical Ethics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, recently wrote "Filling the Sex Trade Swamp: Robert Kraft and His Predecessors," an editorial for Volume 4, Issue 2 of Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence. Read the piece Read More...

• Mobilizing Around the Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons

  Authors: CATW International

  CATW had a busy summer advocating for the rights of women and girls at the United Nations. With the third appraisal of the Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons occurring during the annual meeting of the General Assembly at UN Headquarters this month, we have been working intensely to ensure that women and girls are not forgotten a... 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...

• CATW Responds: Amnesty International Turned Its Back on Women

  Authors: CATW International

  Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) Statement on Amnesty International’s Resolution to Decriminalize Pimps, Brothel Owners and Buyers of Sex New York, August 11, 2015 – Today, at the conclusion of its 32nd International Council Meeting (ICM) and amidst much contention and debate, Amnesty International voted for a resolutio... Read More...