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After the "Conference on Women Empowering Women: A Human Rights Conference on Trafficking in Asian Women" held in Manila, Philippines, in April 1993, [25] CATW created an Asia Pacific chapter. [16] The Australian branch of CATW is also part of the Asia Pacific chapter. The Australian branch is for women only.
In 2014, she became the Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. While there, she was involved in the development of laws such as Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children , The Trafficking Victims Protection Act , and the New York State Human Trafficking Act. [ 1 ]
Vital Voices, an international, nonprofit, non-governmental organization that works with women leaders in the areas of economic empowerment, women's political participation, and human rights; Voice of the Free, a nonprofit, non-stock and tax-exempt non-government organization in the Philippines established in 1991
Also in 2010, CATW observed IDNP by opposing the decision in Bedford v. Canada to strike down Canada's anti-sex work laws. [7] A group of former human trafficking victims and former sex workers in Canada also opposed the striking down of these laws, picketing a courthouse in downtown Toronto, Ontario in recognition of IDNP. [8]
Kathleen Barry (born January 22, 1941) is an American sociologist and feminist. [1] After researching and publishing books on international human sex trafficking, she cofounded the United Nations NGO, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW).
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP) [18] quoting from Kyodo News, estimated that in 1998 there were 400,000 women working in prostitution in the Philippines. [19] [20] The International Labor Organization estimated that in 1993/94 there were nearly half a million prostitutes in the country. [12]
In particular, sexual exploitation remains a serious issue, with 43% of sex trafficking cases involving Native Hawaiian girls trafficked in Waikīkī, O‘ahu, according to a report from the ...
From 1994 to 2007, Raymond was the co-executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). [1] She is currently on the board of directors of CATW. [1] During her tenure, CATW expanded its international work, especially in the Baltics and in Eastern Europe. [1]