Sex Trafficking
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
In honor of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, we want to take a moment to highlight the phenomenal work of Maiti Nepal, one of our Gloria Steinem Equality Fund to End Sex Trafficking grantees.
Sex, Race, Class & Prostitution
Last week, the Coalition to Abolish Prostitution (CAP International) launched their ground-breaking report – Last Girl First! Prostitution at the intersection of sex, race and class-based oppressions – at an event co-sponsored by the Swedish and French governments.
Confronting Misogyny in Latvia
Confronting Misogyny in Latvia In July 2019, the “Ghetto Games,” a street sports event for young people in a Riga suburb of Latvia produced a…
Support the Gloria Steinem Equality Fund to End Sex Trafficking
This International Day Against Trafficking in Persons we at Donor Direct Action would like to celebrate the resilient abolitionist movement that fights to end the…
Help Embrace Dignity End Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Help Embrace Dignity end commercial sexual exploitation Early last year 20 year old Siam Lee was taken from a brothel in Durban, South Africa by…
Gloria Steinem Equality Fund To End Sex Trafficking
According to the United Nations an estimated $30 Billion in profits is generated by the human trafficking industry. 80% of those trafficked end up in…
Help freedom fighter Nozizwe end the sex trade
Help freedom fighter Nozizwe end the sex trade Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has dedicated her life to the freedom of others. Raised by a single mother, she grew…
Help sex trade survivors end prostitution
Help sex trade survivors end prostitution My mother died at the age of 12, leaving me and my two siblings to fend for ourselves in…
A South African trans woman’s tempestuous journey through sex trafficking to survival
My mother died in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, when I was just 12 years old. I was the youngest of three boys. I was devastated.…
The Queen’s endorsement of the exploitation of women is devastating
Earlier this month, Her Majesty the Queen gave official honours to two people who have done more than most to hide the egregious violence experienced…
Why I resigned from the South African “Sex Work” Movement
Like many women in South Africa with first-hand experience of the sex trade, when I initially joined the Sisonke Movement of Sex Workers I was…
Rachel Moran appears on Ireland’s The Late Late Show
Rachel Moran was coerced into sex work in her early teens. She campaigned strongly for a new law, brought in last year, to criminalise the buying of sex. She tells Ryan why she believes a failure to fully enforce this new law is making the sex trade more dangerous.