Chapter 1 historicizes how in the 1990s, the fight against human trafficking became framed as a singular global movement, considering how the contributions of women’s groups in Asia were sidelined in this process. The chapter first explores how in the early 1970s, grassroots activists in Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia established a regional movement against Japanese sex tourism that focused on Japan’s imperialist legacies, racial discrimination, and political economic exploitation in Asia. It then considers how in the 1980s, US-based feminists co-opted and sidelined this Asia-centered project as they courted international institutions to build a global movement against “patriarchy” that centered on “violence against women.” Examining the US-based movement as an example of “governance feminism,” the chapter demonstrates how its globalized vision neglected and obscured issues of structural inequality foregrounded by women’s groups in Asia, and it considers how and why activists in Asia challenged and participated in these efforts.