February 22 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in Canada. The day offers an opportunity for us to educate ourselves and others about the realities of human trafficking and to advocate for effective solutions. This year, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in...
A zombie claim is a belief that has been repeatedly disproven yet keeps resurfacing. The zombie claim that large sporting events lead to an increase in human trafficking for sexual exploitation originated ahead of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games—the first major sporting...
Today, on International Migrants Day, December 18th, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) Canada expresses our solidarity with all migrants who live in Canada and calls for humane, rights-affirming immigration policies. Migrants are our friends,...
December 17th marks the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. It’s a time to remember and mourn the lives lost to violence, demand an end to hate crimes, and raise awareness about how criminalization and stigma contribute to the ongoing violence faced...
GAATW Canada members attended GAATW’s International Members Congress and Conference in Bangkok from October 15-18 to celebrate the Alliance’s 30th anniversary. The event offered GAATW and its international members opportunities to reflect on their work, review...
February 22 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in Canada. Once again, an alarm will sound that human trafficking is a national crisis of epidemic proportions. Awareness will be raised about the signs of trafficking and how to identify victims. But is human...
It’s that time of the year again! Football fans are getting ready for the Super Bowl on 11 February in Las Vegas, Nevada, while the media and some anti-trafficking non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are stoking panic about an increase in sex trafficking in the host...
The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) Canada was formed in 1996 to address human trafficking through a migrant rights and labour rights approach. Over the years, we've worked with women’s, 2SLGBTQAI+, sex worker rights, and labour organizations locally,...
In May 2023, GAATW Canada responded to the call for input on the country visit to Canada of the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery. GAATW Canada's brief highlighted several labour issues and government legislation and policy that warrant the...
In May 2023, GAATW Canada submitted a brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women's (FEWO) study on Human Trafficking of Women, Girls, and Gender-diverse People in Canada. GAATW Canada provided a response to the Committee's purpose and made...
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing body of excellent academic and community-based literature on sex workers’ lives, work, and organising efforts, and on the harmful effects of anti-trafficking discourses, laws, and policies on diverse sex worker...
The Sex Workers Organising for Change: Self-representation, community mobilisation and working conditions report is based on research conducted with sex worker organisations in seven countries: Canada, Mexico, Spain, South Africa, India, Thailand and New Zealand. It...
In 2010, GAATW Canada researchers conducted a qualitative research project, funded by Public Safety Canada, on possible increases in transnational and domestic human trafficking in British Columbia in connection with the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games....
Transnational Migration, Trafficking in Women, and Human Rights: The Canadian Dimension. (2002). Funded by Status of Women Canada. 160 pp.
“Echoes: Cries for Freedom, Justice and Equality. Filipino Women Speak.”, was an initial step toward research and documentation of the situation of Filipino women living in abusive and exploitative conditions in a small town in British Columbia. Their lives as...