We work at the local, regional, national and international level to promote women´s human rights, to a life free of violence and sexual exlpoitation.
We testify before national congresses, parliaments, regional and UN committees and other multilateral organizations and we hold Category II Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
We contribute to the decrease in the phenomenon of human trafficking through letters, campaigns, petitions, and urgent actions. In the latin american region we work with our National Coalitions and with women´s groups, human rights organizations, and other civil society organizations to generate public awareness about the issue.
We fundraise and provide technical counselling to national coalitions and feminist groups who fight against the trafficking of persons for sexual exploitation.
We organize and participate in both regional and international conferences, meetings and networks. As such, we promote the exchange of information in numerous distinct regions of the world.
We design and apply grassroots intervention models for the prevention, protection and prosecution of those invovled in the trafficking of persons for sexual exploitation. We promote those models to state agencies, policy and law makers, and civil society to erradicate the phenomenon.
We aim to put the issue of trafficking in persons on the public agenda of each of the countries of the region by participating in the development of public policies in order to resolve this form of modern slavery.
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean began in 1990, headed by the economist Zoraida Rodríguez who established the headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela. It has since expanded its national coalitions to fifteen countries in the region.
At her death, Zoraida Rodriguez designated M.Sc. Teresa Ulloa Ziáurriz as the regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean and the headquarters for the region was moved to Mexico City in January 2003. The organization was legally registered on November 5, 2004 in Mexico |
