Cherry Smiley

AWAN address to the 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN in 2011.

The male demand for access to the bodies of women and girls creates
and fuels the market that allows pimps, brothel owners, and
traffickers to profit off our backs. AWAN sees the trafficking of
women and children for sexual exploitation as inseparable from
prostitution, trafficking is the process; it is the forced movement of
women and children and prostitution is the result of that movement and
we know this from our collective experiences. Our people and our women
and children have been forced to move from our traditional homelands,
from our territories onto government-created reserves and church-run
residential schools, now from and now from reserves into cities, white
foster homes, and jails where we continue to struggle against racism,
sexism, and violence.

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