[antiwar-van] Deportation of Trafficked MigrantWomen

[No One is Illegal-Vancouver]

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Media Advisory
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact
Cynthia Low  778-892-6675

DATE:   Wednesday October 27, 2004
        300 West Georgia St.
        Vancouver
TIME:   12 Noon

SUBJECT:  Action at Canadian Immigration and Citizenship (CIC) to protest
the deportation of migrant women.

On October 14, Richmond RCMP executed a search warrant in a residential
neighbourhood alleging that the resident was being used as a common bawdy
house where women were prostituted.  Last week 4 women were detained by
CIC as a result of the RCMP raid; no criminal charges have been laid.  The
women have not been give sufficient information in regards to their rights
and community groups have not been able to provide support to these women.

- The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women.
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. -
The Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, Slave Trade,
and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery.
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children.
- All International Labour Organization Conventions on Forced Labour and
equal remuneration for work.

These are just some of the international agreements that Canada has agreed
to.

WE  DEMAND THAT:
· Canada live up to it’s international obligation and commitment to
protect the human rights of women;
· The women currently detained by CIC on prostitution related matters be
released and granted status in Canada;
· All future CIC action involving trafficked women should be addressed in
accordance with the above agreements and any future police action should
not affect citizenship rights;
· Canada sign the 1990 UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Their Families, and
· Canada implements the T-Visa (temporary-visa) to help vulnerable women
stay in Canada.

Sex Workers Action Network
Direct Action Against Refugee Exploitation
No One is Illegal
PIVOT Legal Society
Vancouver Status of Women
Canadian National Coalition of Experiential Women
Anti-Poverty Committee


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The No One is Illegal campaign is in full confrontation with Canadian
colonial border policies, denouncing and taking action to combat racial
profiling of immigrants and refugees, detention and deportation policies,
and wage-slave conditions of migrant workers and non-status people.

We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their
livelihoods and resist war, occupation and displacement, while building
alliances and supporting indigenous sisters and brothers also fighting
theft of land and displacement.
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No One is Illegal- Vancouver
noii-van at resist.ca
(604)682-3269 x 7149

The No One is Illegal campaign is in full confrontation with Canadian
colonial border policies, denouncing and taking action to combat racial
profiling of immigrants and refugees, detention and deportation policies,
and wage-slave conditions of migrant workers and non-status people.

We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their
livelihoods and resist war, occupation and displacement, while building
alliances and supporting indigenous sisters and brothers also fighting
theft of land and displacement.