September 2007 • Issue 404



Action, contacts and resources

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Anti Slavery International
www.antislavery.org
Tel: +44 20 7501 8920

Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)
www.gaatw.net
tel: +66 2 864 1427/8

The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) International
Network of organizations around the world taking an anti-prostitution stance.
www.catwinternational.org
tel: +1 212 643 9896

La Strada International
A network of nine independent human-rights NGOs with hotlines in different European countries.
www.lastradainternational.org
tel: +31 20 688 1414

Network of Sex Workers Projects
www.nswp.org
tel: +27 21 448 2883

ECPAT International
Global network combating child prostitution and trafficking.
www.ecpat.net

UN International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Helps trafficked people; runs counter-trafficking hotlines
www.iom.int

International Rescue Committee
www.theirc.org

BOOKS

Selling Olga: Stories of human trafficking and resistance
by Louisa Waugh, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2006.

Trafficking and the Global Sex Industry
edited by Karen Beeks and Delila Amir, Lexington Books, Maryland, 2006.

The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade
by Victor Malarek, Vision, 2004.

Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work and Human Rights,
edited by Kamala Kempadoo, Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, 2005.

Live Sex Acts: women performing erotic labour
by Wendy Chapkis, Cassell, London, 1997.

WEBSITES

www.humantrafficking.org
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/traffickinghumanbeings.html




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