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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 2005, the University of the Philippines Institute of Human Rights and the Asia-Pacific chapter of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) organized an IDNP event at which they discussed the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003. [4]
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]
Challenging Heights, a grassroots, survivor-led NGO dedicated to ending child trafficking, reducing child slavery, and promoting children's rights in Ghana; Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, an international non-governmental organization opposing human trafficking, prostitution, and other forms of commercial sex
Sexual exploitation remains a serious issue, with 43% of sex trafficking cases involving Native Hawaiian girls trafficked in Waikīkī, O‘ahu, a report said.
HKEX CEO Bonnie Chan, Trip.com chief Jane Sun, and Yum China CEO Joey Wat share their priorities for women at the Fortune Innovation Forum. How female CEOs are building for women in Asia: ‘In ...
Angelina Jolie appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote her movie Maria, during which the host noticed she wasn't wearing shoes. The actress explained she recently broke her ...