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In the News

Taina Bien-Aimé in conversation with Lynn Shaw

CATW Executive Director Taina Bien-Aimé speaks with Lynn Shaw on Lynn's Warriors on WVOX.

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This Week @ The UN March 19, 2021

Barbara Crossette’s March 15 article in PassBlue on New York State legalizing commercial surrogacy got the attention of the UN’s special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, Shushan Khachyan.

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Surrogate Motherhood as a Business: New York State Defies a Global Trend

PassBlue covers our At The Edge of the Margins virtual roundtable on New York State's move to legalize reproductive commercial surrogacy and speaks with Kylee Kwiatkowski, a survivor of egg donation.

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Five Ways You Can Make a Difference This International Women’s Day

"The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women reports that 72 percent of these victims are women and children."

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Surrogacy: The Other Side

In a segment on WBAI's Joys of Resistance, Taina Bien-Aimé, Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and a founding member of Equality Now discusses what is wrong with commercial surrogacy--which has just been legalized in New York State.

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Attacker Stalked Women in Brooklyn for Weeks as Police Stayed Silent

“They basically want it to be a killing or it has to rise to a certain level, and I think it is fundamentally a failure to see how these hate crimes manifest,” said Taina Bien-Aimé, the executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.

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CBS News Covers Announcement of the Sex Trade Survivors Justice and Equality Act

New York state lawmakers are considering legislation that would seek to protect survivors of sex trafficking while punishing the people who exploit them.

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Pix 11’s Ayana Harry Covers Announcement of Sex Trade Survivors Justice and Equality Act

She speaks with Melanie Thompson, youth outreach coordinator for the Coalition Against Trafficking for Women: “There were a lot of survivors and people that I met when I was in the game. A lot of them haven’t made it.”

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What I learned listening to sex trade survivors around the world

Taina Bien-Aimé, CATW executive director, writes in The Millennial Source about her experiences traveling the world to listen to sex trade survivor and advocate to end sex trafficking and sexual exploitation alongside them.

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‘It’s Out Of Control’: How QAnon Undermines Legitimate Anti-Trafficking Efforts

“You’re not going to protect your kids from trafficking by listening to what QAnon says, because that’s not the way child sex trafficking works at all,” said Taina Bien-Aimé, the executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.

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Not All Human Rights Council Specialists Are Perfect: The Latest Controversy

“It is astounding,” Bien-Aimé wrote in an email interview with PassBlue, “that of all the experienced medical experts, the Human Rights Council would pick someone who encourages adolescent girls to consider prostitution as a job as she did in her opinion piece in Teen Vogue, asking them to be open to sex buyers’ ‘kinks,’ and openly calling for the decriminalization of the sex trade."

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Does the New US Envoy for Women’s Rights Have Anything to Do?

“Under this administration, the US has been such a problematic participant within the UN system and with UN deliberations,” said Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, an international group. “It will be interesting to know how Ambassador Currie navigates the UN system in this post and how she can build bridges with the experts who deal with peace and security and women issues and 1325.”

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