Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children
59th session of the UN Human Rights Council
Action Canada for Population and Development
Thank you, President.
My name is Mimi, from the association ACCEPTESS-T, Paris. We defend the rights of trans and migrant sex workers.
We welcome the Special Rapporteur's report, her analysis of the gendered and racialized dimensions of violations of migrant domestic workers' rights, and her call for regular and safe channels of migration.
The rights of migrant workers, whether domestic workers or sex workers, are under threat. Racist policies towards immigrants force us underground and, above all, increase our vulnerability to trafficking. We are exposed to violence and exploitation. All the more so as we have no access to justice, rights, or social protection, as our work is not recognized, and repression only makes our situation worse.
To ensure our rights, we call on member states to recognize and respect domestic work and sex work, to open borders and guarantee safe migration routes, and to combat racism, patriarchy, and the unequal economic model that oppresses us.
Sex work, like domestic work, is work, and neither sex workers nor migrant domestic workers are victims, but fighters in the face of the injustices and inequalities we suffer. Respect us.
Solidarity with migrant workers worldwide!
I thank you.