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Its regional branch, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean, is a signatory of the manifesto of Women's Declaration International. [12] [13] CATW's regional director in Latin America Teresa Ulloa has also appeared as a speaker at WDI events. [14]
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
South America is one of the biggest source and destination locations in the world and has struggled with the issue for many years. The ILO estimates that of the 20.9 million victims of human trafficking in 2012, 1.8 million were from Latin America. There are many factors that cause human trafficking, like a high demand for domestic servants ...
A Spanish police unit is making lasting relationships with women it rescues from slavery. ... Approximately 50,000 trafficking victims are detected across the world every year, the United Nations ...
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is a network of more than 80 non-governmental organizations from all regions of the world that fight against trafficking in persons. GAATW is committed to work for changes in the political, economic, social, and legal systems and structures which contribute to the persistence of trafficking in ...
Taina Bien-Aime, who runs the Coalition Against Sex Trafficking in Women, said the Venezuelan gangsters “recruit very actively.” Her account was backed by a non-profit worker in a Queens ...
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]
It’s a pandemic within the pandemic. Across Latin America, gender-based violence has spiked since COVID-19 broke out.Almost 1,200 women disappeared in Peru between March 11 and June 30, the ...