Mist is a resource centre for victims of trafficking and the professionals who accompany, support them or interact with them.
Mist informs, guides and supports victims of trafficking in accessing their rights. Mist also supports volunteers, social workers and educational teams working with victims, by providing information, training and, when necessary, setting up co-accompaniment protocols.
Information and guidance for victims, peer support, support and training for professionals.
A Welcome booklet for Mist new members has been drawn up by the association’s active members, who have also established its rules and regulations.
To become a member, please contact us here: community.manager@mist-association.org
To make an appointment: contact@mist-association.org
Training and support for professionals
Mist provides training and support for professionals working in France with victims of human trafficking, both minors and adults. Through initial training courses, long-term support schemes or analysis of practices’ groups (Balint-type), Mist helps professionals, social workers and peer helpers to understand complex situations, access rights (asylum, justice, child protection, reparation, etc.) and manage the professional difficulties inherent in helping people and dealing with trauma.
Initial training and continued training on request.
To get a quotation: contact@mist-association.org
A place for training and innovation in peer education and collective mobilization
Mist supports victims of trafficking and pimping who wish to take part in the fight against these phenomena, either on a voluntary or salaried basis, within the framework of expertise activities (feedback, diagnosis, recommendations) or assistance to other victims (awareness-raising, information, access to rights, discussion groups). Members receive support and training as part of an individualized program.
Mist is a place for collective mobilization. Members participate in the development of a participative model in partnership with the association “Organisez-vous”. Through trainings and workshops, the association is developing a methodology and an expertise dedicated to participatory action applied to the fight against trafficking.
Recommendations for public authorities
Mist produces expertise and recommendations for the attention of public authorities and institutions on the fight against human trafficking and access to rights for victims.
Results of collective work are produced by members – on various themes identified as priorities by the group – in the form of written contributions, podcasts and reports.
June 2023 – Participation of the Mist French interministerial work groups aimed at drawing up the 3rd national action plan against human trafficking (Anti trafficking national Coordinator MIPROF) and the 1st national strategy to combat the prostitution system (Cabinet Ministry Isabelle Rome).
March 2023 – Contribution to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, on homelessness as a cause and consequence of contemporary forms of slavery (as part of the call for contributions issued by the Rapporteur for the preparation of the Report published in July 2023).
February 18, 2022 – Online publication of the 3rd Evaluation Report on France by the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA).
November 15, 2021 – Launch of the first national plan to combat the prostitution of minors in France: prostitution-des-mineurs-lancement-du-premier-plan-national.pdf (solidarites-sante.gouv.fr)
April 15, 2021 – The Commission Nationale Consultative pour les Droits de l’Homme (CNCDH) recommended the development of collaboration with peer mediators to encourage the identification and support of minors in prostitution (Recommendation n°7) : Opinion on preventing and combating prostitution and trafficking in minors for the purposes of sexual exploitation | CNCDH
March 4, 2021 – Hearing of Mist by the work group dedicated to improving the prevention of and fight against the prostitution of minors, plan to combat violence against children (2020-2022).
February 6, 2021 – Hearing of Mist by the Group of Experts to the Council of Europe (GRETA), as part of the evaluation of France’s implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (3rd evaluation cycle).
January 19, 2021 – Hearing of Mist by the Commission Nationale Consultative pour les Droits de l’Homme (CNCDH), as part of the preparation of the report on preventing and combating prostitution and trafficking in minors for sexual exploitation.
National and international work groups
Mist is a member of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), La Strada International and Beyond Borders network.
Mist participates in:
- work groups coordinated by the Interministerial Mission for the Protection of Women against Violence and the Fight against Human Trafficking (MIPROF)
- work group on setting up a National Mechanism for the Identification and Referral of Victims of trafficking (MNIO), led by MIPROF.
- steering committee monitoring the set up an experimental mechanism in Paris to protect minors who are victims of human trafficking, coordinated by MIPROF.
- work group on the survey of victims of human trafficking assisted by associations in France, Ministerial Statistical Service for Internal Security and MIPROF.