The Regional Coalition against Trafficking in Women and Girls for Latin America and the Caribbean (CATWLAC) is a non–profit civil association that has extensive experience in the issue of violence against women and girls, including all crimes related to trafficking in women, children and adolescents, for all forms of exploitation and slavery, but especially commercial sexual exploitation, as well as on women’s and girl’s human rights and gender–based violence. We have so far already 23 national networks in Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Mexico, where it established its headquarters in 2003 and was legally constituted in 2004.