Advocacy
Advocacy|
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
2006 A grant to support the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women's (GAATW) 2005-2007 organizational strategy. SHARP funding was used for personnel support and an international congress to further develop 2007 efforts, including: a multi-country project researching the human rights impact of anti-trafficking initiatives; an analysis of self-organized groups (sex workers’ rights groups and other groups such as domestic workers and formerly trafficked women) to determine how self-organizing is being used as a strategy for empowerment, where it is working and why, and what are the obstacles that hinder women from organizing themselves and articulating their struggles; the Access to Justice program looking at how (or even whether) anti-trafficking legislation can be used to obtain justice for migrant women, trafficked persons and especially those who are in the sex industry; and continued health work using the self-help approach which GAATW has found to work well with marginalized groups. Bangkok, Thailand | $27,500 | 1 year | www.gaatw.org |
