Looking Back, Looking Forward: Trafficking & Women’s Rights
December 2020
- Theme: CEDAW, Trafficking.
- Type: Video.
- Region/Country: Global.
- Language: English.
In this episode of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)’s series on the UN Trafficking Protocol and anti-trafficking work more broadly, Borislav Gerasimov and Sharmila Parmanand speak with IWRAW Asia Pacific programme manager Ishita Dutta. Ishita speaks about the challenges for women’s rights activists to engage with state institutions and what women’s rights advocacy should look like. She compares states’ obligations to address human trafficking under the Trafficking Protocol to those under the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of the new CEDAW General Recommendation on human trafficking.
Duration: 34:01
Subtitles: None