GAATW Canada members attended the GAATW International Members Congress and Conference to celebrate GAATW’s 30th anniversary. ‘Looking Back, Looking Forward: Three Decades of Our Journey’ focused on the milestones in the Alliance’s history, reflected on the current challenges and opportunities, and planned with new energy for the future.

GAATW Canada convened a strategic planning session to review goals and outline future initiatives. The meeting focused on setting short- and long-term objectives, identifying key challenges, and aligning resources to ensure continued growth for the organization.

GAATW Canada begins a multi-year research project.

‘Is it trafficking?’ Examining gender-based violence among women who do informal, precarious, non-standard work is a three-year study based in Western Canada funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada.

GAATW Canada meets with Public Safety’s Internal Audit and Evaluation Directorate to provide input into the Horizontal Evaluation of the National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking.

The objective of this evaluation is to explore issues of relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency with the intention of informing the upcoming renewal of the National Strategy.

GAATW Canada meets UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Tomoya Obokata, to discuss labour issues and government legislation and policy that warrant the Special Rapporteur’s attention.

The meeting was part of the Special Rapporteur’s official country visit to Canada, which took place from August 23 to September 6.

We were pleased that many of the issues we raised in our brief were reflected in the Special Rapporteur’s final report.