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• Immunity Incorporated: All the Injustice Jeffrey Epstein Can Buy

  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 "Immunity Incorporated: All the Injustice Jeffrey Epstein Can Buy," an editorial for Volume 4, Issue 2 of Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence. Read the piece Read More...

• Grooming the Next Generation of #MeToo Predators: Sleek Pornhub Storefront Pops Up in SoHo

  Authors: Taina Bien-Aimé, CATW Executive Director

  This piece originally appeared in HuffPost. All of these Black women for sale. I thought about slavery in that porn shop. I thought about the stories my Grandmother told me about her mother’s life under slavery … seeing these Black women shackled, spread-eagle, or hog-tied made it seem as though this part of history — the history of my foremot... 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...