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European Conference On Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration Brussels

"We wish to see a society in which sex workers are not denied social power. We condemn the hypocrisy within our societies where our services are used but our profession or businesses are made illegal. This legislation results in abuse and lack of control over our work and lives. We oppose the criminalization of sex workers, their partners clients, managers, and everyone else working in sex work."

SEX WORKERS IN EUROPE UNITE!

Twenty years after the Second World Whores Congress took place in the European Parliament (1986) more than 200 sex workers and activists in the fields of human, labour and migrants rights, from 30 countries, came together to make their demands known and to present the newly drafted and endorsed Declaration on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe and the Sex Workers in Europe Manifesto.

The movement, started in Brussels, demands that sex work be recognised as work, enabling all sex workers to enjoy a full range of human and labour rights and enabling migrant sex workers to apply for work and residence permits and that both documented and undocumented sex worker migrants be entitled to full labour rights.