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Let’s end human trafficking
and sexual exploitation
around the world — together.

Everyone has the right to live a life free from violence and discrimination.
Since 1988, we’ve been working to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation
of women and girls by advocating for strong laws and policies, raising public awareness and supporting survivor leadership globally.

About Our Work

 

Advocating for Strong Laws

We call for laws and policies that provide access to justice, target demand, and ensure women and girls are free from the violence and exploitation inherent to the sex trade.

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Raising Public Awareness

We mobilize the public to urge policymakers, organizations, and change makers to protect and respect the human rights of all women and girls, especially the most marginalized among us.

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Supporting Survivor Leaders

A strong survivor-led movement is key to ending the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls. We partner with survivors to develop life-changing prevention and protection policies.

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Recent Campaigns

 

CATW Launches Our First Podcast Series – Featuring Host Melanie Thompson and Other Survivor Leaders

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Our Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls: Report on Prostitution

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New Report: From Impunity to Accountability – Deterring Sex Buyers in New York State and Beyond

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Human trafficking occurs in every town,
city and country in the world.
The majority of its victims are women and girls.

 

About the Challenge

The Latest

65%

of identified trafficking victims are women and girls.

UNODC 2020 Global Trafficking in Persons Report

92%

of detected sex trafficking victims are women and girls.

UNODC 2020 Global Trafficking in Persons Report

1 in 3

women globally experience physical or sexual violence.

Violence Against Women Prevalence Estimates, 2018, WHO, 2021

Recent Posts

 

CATW Celebrates the European Court of Human Rights’ Validation of France’s Equality Model Law

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CATW Applauds the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls and her Report on Prostitution and Violence Against Women

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UN Rights Experts Make False Promises About Prostitution

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Poor Things and Misogynistic Dreams: How Abusers Sexually Mistreat Disabled Women

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In the News

Meet the Press: Decriminalizing sex work will create ‘free for all’ for exploitation, says trafficking survivor

Sex trafficking survivor Melanie Thompson and Cook County, Ill. Sheriff Thomas Dart discuss their opposition to the full decriminalization of sex work on Meet the Press Reports.

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CATW Statement on Rape as a Weapon of War

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In the News

Women’s Rights Organizations Call on Justice Department to Release Names of Sex Buyers in High-End Prostitution Ring

Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced the arrests of three men charged with operating an interstate prostitution ring patronized by high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, professors, lawyers, scientists, accountants, elected officials, military officers, and government contractors with security clearances.

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Why Some Advocates Are Pushing Back Against Decriminalization in the Sex Trade

There’s an effort underway to fully decriminalize the sex trade in the U.S. It's horrifying many who know that life first hand. "This idea that it's her body, her choice and she has power and autonomy in the sex trade is a fallacy," says Melanie Thompson with the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.

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Exclusive NYPD Ride Along Exposes Illicit Sex Trade in NYC, What Officers Are Doing to Stop It

"There's a huge misconception around choice," sex trafficking survivor Melanie Thompson said. "Around the idea that these women are choosing to do this because they woke up one day and decided they wanted to. Cops now view the women as victims of sex traffickers caught in the switches between abusive pimps and the need to meet quotas, and the so-called "sex buyers."

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What It Means to Call Prostitution ‘Sex Work’

The term “sex work” whitewashes the economic constraints, family ruptures and often sordid circumstances that drive many women to sell themselves. It flips the nature of the transaction in question: It enables sex buyers to justify their role, allowing the purchase of women’s bodies for their own sexual pleasure and violent urges to feel as lightly transactional as the purchase of packaged meat from the supermarket.

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