Sex workers want a Europe without Mouvement du Nid
Press Release - Sex workers want a Europe without Mouvement du Nid
STRASS - the Union of Sex Work
8 April 2009
Sex workers want an Europe without the Mouvement du Nid
The lobby of the abolitionist Mouvement du Nid continues with the launch of a new campaign against our work for the European elections in June.
We therefore wish to remind that the Mouvement du Nid which pretends being the expert on prostitution has no legitimacy. The real experts on prostitution are us, the sex workers.
The Mouvement du Nid like other movements that want our abolition is disconnected from our reality and distort our speech to better maintain their power.
The abolitionist business based on millions of euros of public funding must immediately end.
The Mouvement du Nid, for its part, manages at least 960 000 euros of annual budget to preach their Christian values. http://www.fondationscelles.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=229&Itemid=111
- We do not want their status of “socially inadapted person” which excludes us from the rest of society and makes us dependent on their charity.
- We do not want their “reinsertion” which means being exploited for less than the minimum wage like with the “Dagobert workshops” proposed by the Amicale du Nid.
- We do not want their crapy analysis saying that trafficking in human beings is caused by customers demand to justify increasingly repressive laws and without ever questioning the real reasons that are related to the migration control of foreign sex workers.
We demand that candidates for European elections get inspired on the contrary from the claims of sex workers.
Here is the result of the work carried out by sex workers activists in Europe with the Manifesto and the Declaration of Rights written during the European Conference of sex workers in Brussels in 2005.
Manifesto
http://www.sexworkeurope.org/site/images/PDFs/manbrussels2005.pdf
Declaration
http://www.sexworkeurope.org/site/images/PDFs/dec_brussels2005.pdf
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