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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.
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 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]
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).
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, an international non-governmental organization opposing human trafficking, prostitution, and other forms of commercial sex; Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, a nonprofit Los Angeles-based anti-human trafficking organization
Sexual exploitation remains a serious issue, with 43% of sex trafficking cases involving Native Hawaiian girls trafficked in Waikīkī, O‘ahu, a report said.
Prostitution in Indonesia is legally considered a "crime against decency/morality", although it is widely practiced, tolerated and even regulated in some areas. [1] Some women are financially motivated to become prostitutes, while others may be forced by friends, relatives or strangers.