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CATW Campaigns, Programs and Projects |
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women supports campaigns, programs and projects in
many different parts of the world...
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Measures to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings:
Addressing gaps in current anti-trafficking programs and policies that avoid focusing on gender equality, the demand, and the links between trafficking and prostitution. More...
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The Prevention Project:
A multi-tiered project to prevent sex trafficking and sexual exploitation by developing best practices
in several areas of the world. More...
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Prostitution Law Reform:
To challenge acceptance of the sex industry, normalization of
prostitution as work, and to de-romanticize legalization initiatives
in various countries. More...
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| Human Rights Advocacy: |
International presentations, trial testimony, congressional and parliamentary hearings, UN forums and
international visitors' programs. More...
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| Project to Curb Male Demand for Prostitution: |
To combat sex trafficking and prostitution by discouraging the demand. More...
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| Human Rights Documentation Project: |
To conduct training sessions to inform and educate women's
organizations on feminist research methodologies, counseling and
para-legal skills, and the developing of profiles on trafficking and
prostitution in Asian countries. More...
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| Online Documentation Center |
To distribute information on sex trafficking and prostitution from
different parts of the world, including country-specific information. More...
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Measures to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings for Sexual Exploitation |
A project jointly coordinated by the European Women's Lobby (EWL) and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). The purposes of this project are to address gaps in current anti-trafficking programs and policies that avoid focusing on gender equality, the demand, and the links between trafficking and prostitution. The project will support NGOs working on these issues in 13 countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Albania, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro.
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Develop sustainable "best practices" and strategies to prevent and combat trafficking and sexual exploitation of human beings, especially women and children.
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Promote gender equality and the building up of cultural and political consensus in order to change the legal framework and establish adequate mechanisms for gender equality.
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Raise awareness about the root causes of prostitution and trafficking in women and children for sexual purposes. |
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Highlight the links between violence against women and the normalization of sexual exploitation throughout the sex industry that are fundamental violations of women's rights.
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Promote preventative and awareness raising measures to discourage the demand for sexual exploitation that fosters trafficking, with a special focus on the Swedish model to combat prostitution and trafficking in human beings.
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Encourage alternatives to legal and policy measures that attempt to legalize the sex industry, decriminalize pimps and brothels, or regulate different prostitution activities, for example, through medical monitoring of women and State taxation schemes.
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Country Projects:
Albania |
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No to Sexual Tourism; Yes to Cultural Tourism focuses on encroaching sexual tourism in the country, promotes awareness of women's rights, and advocates against initiatives that favor decriminalization of prostitution in Albania. Coordinated by the Women's Media Group, this project includes a grassroots campaign to organize roundtables and TV debates on the dangers of sexual tourism, to establish an advocacy network of opposition to laws favoring the prostitution industry and to write and publish articles against the decriminalization of the industry in Albania. |
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Bulgaria
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Coordinated by the Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation, this project will be an information campaign against trafficking for sexual exploitation aimed at potential victims and clients. It aims to make people aware of the links between prostitution and trafficking and to dissuade the Bulgarian government from institutionalizing prostitution. |
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Croatia |
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Coordinated by the Centre for Women War Victims (ROSA) and the Women's Room, this project is entitled Shifting the Image on Prostitution and Trafficking in Women in Croatia – Lobbying for Legal Changes. The main aims of the project are to promote changes in the laws and provisions concerning prostitution and trafficking by preparing a legislative draft document that would shift focus toward the demand and prevent legalization of prostitution in Croatia; and to conduct forums against legalization of prostitution in Croatia. |
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Czech Republic
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Coordinated by Caritas, Let's Discuss It is a project to launch a nation-wide discussion on the issues of trafficking in women and prostitution and to highlight different societal approaches and perceptions. The project aims through public forums and leaflets to bring together various sectors of civil society to discuss these issues. |
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Estonia
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Coordinated by ENUT, the Estonian Women's Studies and Resource Centre, this project is a grassroots campaign to combat trafficking and prostitution focusing on demand. The main aims of the project are to: adopt legislation to combat trafficking and sexual exploitation effectively; raise public awareness about sex trafficking, its causes, the negative social effects of prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation; influence public opinion to find trafficking, prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation unacceptable; and insure better law enforcement. |
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Hungary
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Coordinated by the “ Way Out With You” Association that gives direct assistance to women in prostitution, the main aims of the project are: to establish a drop-in centre for victims of trafficking and prostitution in Budapest that is an alternative to one that promotes legalization of prostitution; to give media prominence to the “Way Out with You” goals and services; to produce 3 one minute video ads about the dangers of prostitution and trafficking and to distribute these ads nationwide; to produce a movie about the harm of prostitution to women, addressing what has happened in countries where legalization has occurred vs. the Swedish model. |
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Latvia
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Coordinated by Marta, the Resource Centre for women, the title of this campaign is Airport – Public Awareness Campaign in the International Airport of Riga . The project will hand out cards and use stickers to warn women leaving Riga by air about their rights in foreign countries and where to seek help. It will also be an anti-sex tourism campaign warning men arriving in Latvia about the dangers and penalties of sex tourism. |
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Lithuania
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Coordinated by the Women's Issues Information Center, this project aims to support a current law against the demand recently passed by the parliament and to insure that it is publicized and enforced by the police. The project will conduct trainings for various groups on the demand. At the same time, the project aims to raise awareness in society about the need to penalize sex buyers by conducting a poster campaign placed in public areas using slogans such as "She could be your daughter, sister…" |
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Kosovo
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Coordinated by Radio Plus, Prishtina, this project is a media awareness campaign using 7 radio spots broadcast 5 times daily for a period of 12 months to make clear that prostitution is an incitement to trafficking; to promote prosecution of those who prostitute and traffic women; and to present an alternative legal framework to normalizing the institution of prostitution and trafficking that will focus on demand. Content of all produced materials and radio spots will focus on the links between prostitution and trafficking and the demand. The interviews will contain questions to ascertain current perception of these links, and public discussions will follow. Radio spots will be distributed without cost to partner stations in Kosovo. |
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Moldova
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Coordinated by the Association, Women for Contemporary Society (AWCS), this project is entitled 'No' to Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Exploitation. The main aims of the project are to inform the public about the dangers of trafficking and sexual exploitation; to demonstrate the consequences for women and for society; to identify who are the women who end up in prostitution and who are the clients; to initiate discussion about current trends to legalize prostitution; and to create a trained group of volunteers. |
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Montenegro
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Coordinated by the Women's Safe House, the main aim of the project is to develop legal measures to criminalize the buyers and decriminalize the women. This project will prepare a draft law following the Swedish model for penalizing clients in collaboration with relevant state institutions such as the Ministry of Justice and parliamentarians. |
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Russia
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Coordinated by the Angel Coalition, Mira Med Institute and Project Kesher, The Volga Project is an information and public awareness campaign. Its aims are to educate the community about trafficking and prostitution as violence against women, related to domestic violence, that leads to women's inequality; to promote a different view and attitude towards women in the society by focusing on the demand side of trafficking and prostitution as a new lens through which to view the problem; to link prostitution, trafficking and the demand for sexual exploitation in 3 cities in Russia. The project will conduct educational workshops, training seminars and print and distribute leaflets and media materials. |
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Serbia
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Coordinated by the Committee for Human Rights -- Majdanpek, the main aim of the project is to develop strategies to prevent and combat trafficking and sexual exploitation of human beings, especially women and children. For a long time, the police and prosecutors had no knowledge, experience, or means of intervention in trafficking cases. In the absence of the rule of law, and in a state of constant insecurity, the prevention and combating of trafficking in women and girls were far from being a state priority. The project will organize two seminars and several information campaigns targeting medical and court personnel, social workers, NGOs, journalists, politicians, and especially those who live near the border as well as village people. |
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The Prevention Project |
A multi-tiered project to prevent sex
trafficking and sexual exploitation by developing best practices
in several areas of the world:
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To provide shelter and services to Nigerian trafficked women and
children in Italy. Through the IROKO Association in Italy, CATW helps
provide housing facilities, economic assistance and psychological and
medical support to victims of trafficking, the majority who come from
Nigeria and Albania to Italy. |
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Mali |
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To target hotels, travel agencies, and tourist agencies to cooperate
in CATW Africa's prevention campaign against trafficking in women and children. |
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To address cases of young Malian girls trafficked to Saudi Arabia
through marriage marketing networks. |
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To investigate traffickers involved in these networks and promote
police investigations and arrests. |
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Mexico |
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To prevent children from being recruited into the sex industry by
implementing anti-trafficking programs for young girls and boys in schools
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To train teachers to educate their students in how to take defensive
and offensive actions against recruiters and exploiters. |
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To write and distribute a training manual for high school teachers
on prevention of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. |
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To produce and present a video on buses, airlines, and in other
transportation facilities, warning visitors arriving in Mexico City,
as well as parents and teenagers, about the risks and penalties of
trafficking, sex tourism and sexual exploitation |
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To partner with the national trade union of teachers,
the Ministry of Public Education for the Federal District of Mexico,
the Ministry of Communications and other groups to sponsor the video
in the transportation centers, airlines, bus services, and
television stations. |
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Republic of Georgia |
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To offer a "Short Course on What Potential Migrants Need to Know
Before Migrating Abroad." Organized by CATW?s partner in Georgia,
the Center for Foreign Citizens and Migrants Rights and Security (FCRS),
the course provides information on the realities and risks of the trafficking
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To educate individuals about the potential perils of the journey
they may undertake, practical information about the migration process,
including legal venues for migration, visa and travel requirements and
documents, migrants' rights and responsibilities abroad, and language skills
and computer literacy. |
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To develop a hotline, distribute flyers, and contact would-be migrants,
using advertisements in newspapers publicizing the program, conducting
outreach in regions of Georgia with high trafficking incidents. |
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Prostitution Law Reform |
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To challenge acceptance of the sex industry, normalization of
prostitution as work, and to de-romanticize legalization initiatives
in various countries. |
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To strengthen the response to trafficking in selected countries
by: 1) rejoining prostitution and sex trafficking; 2) countering the
trend to legalize/decriminalize sex industries; 3) promoting legislative,
criminal justice and NGO efforts to discourage the demand for prostitution. |
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To develop an action alert response that allows CATW and its partner
NGOs to intervene in public forums on legalization initiatives, and to
consult with and educate legislators who may be the process of voting on
prostitution law reform bills. |
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Baltic Countries |
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To strengthen information, research and Advocacy anti-trafficking
networks in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. |
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To conduct trainings of journalists addressing media representation
of prostitution and trafficking issues. |
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To educate and train law enforcement about the relationship between
prostitution and trafficking, consult with legislators and governmental
officials about the harm involved in legal initiatives to normalize
prostitution as work, and educate these groups about alternative legislation
focusing on the demand to curb sex trafficking. |
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To implement country workshops on national and international legal tools
against trafficking and sexual exploitation to be used in the African region. |
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To compile different legal tools against trafficking and prostitution in Africa. |
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To help draft the Mali National Report to the UN CEDAW committee. |
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Human Rights Advocacy |
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International presentations, trial testimony,
congressional and parliamentary hearings, UN forums and
international visitors? programs.
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To participate in governmental and public forums addressing
the harmful consequences of state-sponsored prostitution. |
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To provide expert testimony in court, and at congressional
and parliamentary hearings on trafficking, prostitution and
the global sex industry. |
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To host NGO and governmental visitors from around the world
about best practices in combating trafficking and prostitution
and educate about CATW's policies and programs. |
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To lead seminars for international journalists focusing
on media coverage of prostitution and trafficking issues. |
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To continue the hundreds of presentations on prostitution and trafficking in
Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
France, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mali, Mexico,
New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,
Turkey, the United States, Venezuela and elsewhere. |
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To testify at U.S. Congressional and the European Parliamentary and
other legislative hearings. |
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To advocate annually at key UN forums including the UN Commission on the
Status of Women (CSW) meetings, the UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms
of Slavery and key UN world conferences such as Beijing, Beijing + 5, and
Beijing + 10. |
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To monitor the progress of the UN Protocol on Trafficking in which CATW
played a key role in drafting a human rights definition of trafficking that
protects all victims of trafficking regardless of their consent; and in
establishing prevention, protection and prosecution measures. |
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To monitor the implementation of the anti-trafficking law passed
in the Philippines that CATW's Asia Pacific helped to pass. |
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Project to Curb Male Demand for Prostitution |
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To combat sex trafficking and prostitution by discouraging the demand.
To challenge the men who buy women for the sex of prostitution through
various measures, including education of boys and men and support of
enforcing laws against buyers. |
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To publicize a chart of "global good practices," illustrating police
and community actions taken against male "customers." Many police
departments have creatively used local legislation to arrest, charge,
and prosecute the men. Some have seized men's cars. Still others
have utilized techniques of 'naming and shaming' in which men's names
are published in the newspapers or on the internet when they are caught
in the act of soliciting women in prostitution. Other police forces
have aired surveillance videos of male buyers, caught in the act of
soliciting women in prostitution, on a special TV show. |
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Baltic Countries |
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To strengthen existing networks working against sex trafficking. |
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To promote the Swedish model of legislation which prohibits the
purchase of sexual services and recognizes prostitution as a form
of male violence against women. |
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To conduct media trainings and public awareness campaigns in Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania, and to work with journalists to write articles and
press releases on the harmful consequences of legally recognizing
prostitution as work. |
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To develop and implement creative new strategies to confront the
male buyers of women in prostitution. |
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Mexico and India |
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To educate legislators, NGOs and others about the Swedish model
of legislation which prohibits the purchase of sexual services and
recognizes prostitution as a form of male violence against women. |
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To train local criminal justice practitioners, NGOs and
others to implement policies and programs that penalize demand. |
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The Philippines and Mexico |
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To conduct substantive school educational programs in the Philippines
and Mexico, targeting young boys in communities where prostitution flourishes,
to discourage the demand for sexual exploitation and to address male sexual
attitudes, stereotypes and practices. |
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To change the sexual attitudes and practices of boys and men that
result in the sexual exploitation of women and children by employing
various educational tools, including a video entitled "First Time,"
which critiques how young men go through male rites of passage by
using women in prostitution. |
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To use popular educational materials such as flyers and flipcharts
detailing causes of prostitution and trafficking, and comic books
portraying the stories of women who have been in prostitution, including
the role of male buyers. |
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To organize workshops and boys' camps in selected regions to educate
young boys and men about the harm of prostitution and trafficking,
men's role in perpetuating sexual exploitation, and men's potential
role in being catalysts for change. |
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To campaign for a Philippines anti-prostitution law specifically
addressing the demand. |
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Human Rights Documentation Project |
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To train NGOs in the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia and
India and other countries in a system that documents and systematizes
incidences and cases of violence against women. |
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To conduct training sessions to inform and educate women's
organizations on feminist research methodologies, counseling and
para-legal skills, and the developing of profiles on trafficking and
prostitution in Asian countries. |
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Russia |
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To train NGOs in the north of Russia to utilize documentation techniques
to systematically record cases of male violence against women. |
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Online Documentation Center |
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To disseminate the philosophy and mission of CATW, its publications,
statements, speeches, fact sheets, testimony to governmental committees,
services for survivors of prostitution, campaigns, policies and organizations
linked to the CATW. |
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To distribute information on sex trafficking and prostitution from
different parts of the world, including country-specific information. |
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To provide various resources in different languages to make the
web site more accessible to those outside English-speaking countries. |
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To make available groundbreaking articles, reports and videos on
prostitution, trafficking and the global sex industry. See the
CATW online Library. |
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