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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...

• Highlighting CATW-AP's Tireless Efforts in the Filipino Woman-led Resistence Against Duterte

  Authors: Janice G. Raymond, CATW Board Member

  Filipino Women Are Key in Resistance to DuterteThis piece originally appeared on Truthdig in two parts. Part One. Part Two. Part One His boorish, brash, in-your-face performances helped win him the presidency of his country. He told voters he would “drain the swamp,” a swamp of drugs and crime. He was born to privilege, yet the poorest revere him a... 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...

• Prostitution as Financial Aid: Three College Students Speak Out

  Authors: Taina Bien-Aimé, CATW Executive Director

  This piece originally appeared in The Huffington Post. Last summer, three interns at the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Averi Barron (CUNY Hunter), Sarah Faruqui (Northwestern University) and Raphaela Kunze (Brown University), initiated extensive research on the “sugar dating” website, Seeking Arrangement. One of many “sugar dating” sites,... 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...

• 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...