COALITION AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
The Prevention Project
A multi-tiered project to prevent sex trafficking and sexual exploitation by developing best practices in several areas of the world
Prostitution Law Reform
Goals:
To challenge acceptance of the sex industry, normalization of prostitution as work, and to de-romanticize legalization initiatives in various countries.
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.
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.
Project to Curb Male Demand for Prostitution
Goals:
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.
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.
Exposing the Harms and Making the Links
The key goals of the program are (1) to help shift the public's and the medical community's views about the commercial sex trade from being perceived as an acceptable business consisting of "consensual paid sexual acts" to a system of exploitation, abuse, violence and discrimination against women and girls; and (2) to engage the medical community in documenting and publicizing data proving such harms.
Survivor Leadership
To increase the number of individuals and groups within CATW's supported survivor-leadership network who participate in trafficking-focused panels, campaigns, and speaking events. The goal is to increase survivor-led participation and publications in the anti-trafficking and abolitionist movement.
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
CATW is a non-governmental organization that works to end human trafficking and CSE of women and girls worldwide. In order to promote and protect the rights of women and girls in long-term and sustainable ways, we must shift policies that target the victims to policies that target the traffickers, pimps and buyers of sex. A major goal is education for youth and men to discourage the purchase of commercial sex and to increase awareness on the dangers of demand. We also aim to provide prevention, direct services, and exit strategics to victims of human trafficking and prostitution.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
CATW engages in principled advocacy and awareness-raising and engages support from allies and non-traditional partners to pressure policy-makers and encourage the public to push for change. Additionally, we fund our international partners to engage in direct service provision that includes providing support to victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, as well as collecting data on the issues to compile and develop research used to identify the problems and harms of human trafficking on the global scale.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
International movement-building, partnership, advocacy and campaigning, and grassroots funding for international partners.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We measure success in laws implemented that target demand and the level of awareness-raising achieved within our campaigns. While we have seen two new countries adopt "end-demand" centric-legislation, we continue to push for policy-making on the international scale, including proper implementation of these laws. As long as the purchase of women’s bodies is accepted in our society as a “cultural practice”, albeit a harmful one, women cannot achieve full equality in the workplace, community or in the home.
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COALITION AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN
Board of directorsas of 07/24/2019
Aurora Javata de Dios
CATW-Asia Pacific
Asuncion Miura
No Affiliation
Janice G. Raymond, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts
Mta. Teresa C. Ulloa Ziaurriz
CATW - Latin America and the Caribbean
Dorchen Leidholdt, Esq.
Sanctuary For Families
Vednita Carter
Breaking Free
Esohe Aghatise
Ikoro
Ruchira Gupta
Apne Aap
Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes