What's the Cost of a Rumour? A guide to sorting out the myths and the facts about sporting events and trafficking
There has been a lot published on the supposed link between sporting events and trafficking, but how much of it is true and how much of it is useful? In this guide, we review the literature from past sporting events, and find that they do not cause increases in trafficking for prostitution. The guide takes a closer look at why this unsubstantiated idea still captures the imagination of politicians and some media, and offers stakeholders a more constructive approach to address trafficking beyond short-term events. We hope this guide will help stakeholders quickly correct misinformation about trafficking, develop evidence-based anti-trafficking responses, and learn what worked and what didn't in past host cities.
Feeling Good About Feeling Bad… A Global Review of Evaluation in Anti-Trafficking Initiatives
This research explores and assesses the evaluation of anti-trafficking policies and programmes worldwide, including three international, two regional and nine national anti-trafficking initiatives. It highlights common themes and emerging patterns between a range of approaches to evaluation in this sector and finds overwhelmingly that anti-trafficking initiatives are not being sufficiently evaluated, impeding the effectiveness of anti-trafficking responses and limiting progress in combating trafficking. Urgent action in the form of adequate evaluation systems is imperative to ensure anti-trafficking programmes are effectively targeted and delivered.
A Woman’s Life is Richer than Her Trafficking Experience
Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) Series
This CD contains the results of the Feminist Participatory Action Research organised by GAATW. It demonstrates the ways in which women are taking action and steering change in their communities. It shares their stories of resilience, hope and strength; it reveals the complexities of their lives; and raises their voices so we can hear them loudly and clearly, and take action.
The Realities and Agency of Informal Sector Workers:The Account of Migrant Women Workers in Nairobi
Migración y Trabajo: Mujeres Migrantes Haitianas: Investigación Feminista de Acción Participativa
‘Am Only Saying It Now’: Experiences of Women Seeking Asylum in Ireland
The Impact of Excessive Placement Fees on Indonesian Migrant Workers (IMWs) and Their Families. Report of Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) in Limbangan village, Losari subdistrict, Brebes district, Central Java, Indonesia
Female Temporary Circular Migration and Rights Protection in the Strawberry Sector in Huelva, Spain
Agency has always been at the core to GAATW’s message, and this topic was further looked at in a 2nd Roundtable (February and March, 2009). This Roundtable focused on ‘macro’ issues such as trade, security regimes, and global economics, and their impact on migrant and trafficked women and their space for agency and decision-making.
This specific research report seeks to contribute to this on-going analysis by GAATW by looking at these issues in the context of a programme of female temporary migration within the agriculture sector in Huelva, Spain; we aim to connect macroeconomics to a micro example of reality lived on the ground.
Respect and Relevance: Supporting self-organising as a strategy for empowerment and social change
The report features self-organised members in the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW). Discussions highlighted the importance of empowering internal relationships within the organisation and respectful partnerships with external stakeholders, organising processes that accomodated women's individual circumstances and needs, and the need to have opportunities where women could learn from shared experiences with other women.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Measures on Human Rights around the World
This report reviews the impact of anti-trafficking measures on human rights in 8 countries: Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, India, Nigeria, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Each country chapter provides an overview of human trafficking, the current legal framework concerning all aspects of anti-trafficking efforts, specific laws and policies and their implications on key groups of people, and a critical analysis of the human rights impact of these measures specifically on women. This anthology emphasises the critical need for a re-assessment of anti-trafficking initiatives around the globe in order that human rights do not get written off as ‘collateral damage’ in combating human trafficking.
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Women, Mobility and Reproductive Health
The report provides an assessment of the health conditions and mobility patterns among women migrant workers in Thailand.
The Alliance News
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Issue 34, December 2010 FINAL ISSUE |
Principle and Practice: GAATW-IS Reflections on Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) The final issue of the Alliance News reflects on our experiences using the feminist participatory action research (FPAR) methodology in GAATW’s recent FPAR initiative, A Woman’s Life is Richer Than Her Trafficking Experience. GAATW had first used the FPAR methodology in the early 1990s and the findings from this research were instrumental in GAATW’s advocacy towards an expanded definition of trafficking in the UN Human Trafficking Protocol. Almost ten years later, we wanted to use the FPAR methodology again to assess how changes in globalised migration, labour and anti-trafficking contexts were impacting women at the grassroots level and to see where women and communities identified the need for change and action. |
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Issue 33, July 2010 |
Beyond Anti-Trafficking Frameworks: In this issue, we broaden our perspective beyond the anti-trafficking framework, to recognise women’s multiple identities and their complex realities. In other words, we affirm once again that a woman’s (or any person’s) trafficking experience does not comprise her whole identity or life story. The complexities of women’s lives cannot be captured by one approach alone, whether that be anti-trafficking, women’s rights, migrant rights or labour rights. Multiple approaches are required to fully understand women’s experiences.
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