CATW is an abolitionist non-profit organization that works to end human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls worldwide.
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2 Jul 2025
We stand with all survivors of sexual exploitation and sexual violence. Our statement regarding today's verdict in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial:
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Bone-chilling investigation of impunity gifted to accused rapists and sex traffickers #Tate brothers. But jarring that @heidiblake uses term “sex work” - slogan coined by sex trade&porn industry to normalize violence.Unless @NewYorker stylebook requires it newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Sex Trade Survivors Write Open Letter to MacKenzie Scott Concerning Her Funding of Groups that Endorse the Prostitution of Women and Girls prn.to/4uiekVR
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May 29
🔥🔥EXCELLENT article thanks to @Rights4Girls and @CATWIntl
May 28
Great article by Pamela Paul in the Wall Street Journal, "How Defending Prostitution Became a Progressive Cause."
The article is behind a paywall, but I put a few quotes on the WEEP blog, including one from Yasmin Vafa's @rights4girls (quoted below).
weep.org.au/how-defending-pr…
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May 28
What is human trafficking? According to the #PalermoProtocol:
➡️The Act: transportation, harbor, transfer or recruitment of a person
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May 28
➡️The Means: the threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or a position of vulnerability, or the giving or receiving of payments or benefits
➡️ The Purpose: exploitation
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CATW International retweeted
As Ukraine's #surrogacy industry returns to pre-war levels listen to @maryxma share how agencies traffic poor women into the country from elsewhere.
And read more on the status of Ukraine's #lawreform and what this means for parenthood in our latest blog:
stopsurrogacynowuk.org/2026/…
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May 21
“Historically, the human rights movement has excluded the real lives of many women by supposing that ‘sex work’ was acceptable—as if women selling their bodies were freely chosen[.] It seems to be long past time to delink ‘sex’ and ‘work.’” Gloria Steinem. wsj.com/us-news/law/how-defe…
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Reports of rape and sexual violence surge in the EU as the bloc pushes for a consent-based definition of rape. #EuropeInMotion
➡️ l.euronews.com/0cna
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Progress! First conviction under CA’s new law establishing felony accountability for buyers of child sex. 37 yr old who paid to rape 16 year old kron4.com/news/bay-area/rich…
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The @PulitzerPrizes decision to award @jkbjournalist a special citation for work she did exposing Epstein a decade ago is an unusual acknowledgment that the Pulitzer Board messed up badly when they ignored her work in the first place after a pressure campaign by Dersh etc.
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Read about our efforts in Albany advocating for the Sex Trade Survivors Justice and Equality Act and closing the #Esptein loophole!
Apr 30
What's New York's 'Epstein loophole' for sex traffickers? I explain that — and how lawmakers want to close it capitolconfidential.com/p/ne…
- Upstate pied-à-terre opt-in?
- Fraudulent social media ads
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Apr 29
« Lawmakers invited #Epstein survivors [.]while simultaneously elevating a colleague with his own[.]history of #VAW —This is what male entitlement looks like when it is woven into the fabric of institutional power. » Yasmin Vafa @rights4girls @MsMagazine
msmagazine.com/2026/04/29/er…
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CATW International retweeted
NY's Voluntary Intoxication Exclusion law makes it near impossible for sexual assault survivors to get justice if they were "voluntarily" intoxicated. Call your NY rep & demand change TODAY! wnyc.org/story/the-allegatio… via @BrianLehrer
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Apr 14
World March of Prostitution and Sex Trade Survivors begins at the Pantheon in Paris. @CAPIntl @SPACEintl Happy 10th Birthday to #France’s Abolitionist (Equality) Law. #ListenToSurvivors #endDemand #MyBodyHisChoice
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Apr 13
A Love Letter to Jeffrey Epstein: The CEDAW Committee Betrays Women
Read our Executive Director's thoughts on @CedawUn's embrace of the sex trade ⬇️⬇️⬇️
open.substack.com/pub/catwin…
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Mar 25
Wishing a very happy birthday to global women's rights activist and endless source of inspiration, Gloria Steinem!
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Mar 19
1/2: 1422 signataires, y compris des survivantes, demandent au Comité #CEDEF de modifier leur rapport adressé aux @NLNetherlands. Le rapport qualifie filles victimes de traite de « travailleuses du sexe », considère la prostitution comme un « travail » ...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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