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In 2007, three Ontario sex workers initiated a constitutional challenge to provisions of the Criminal Code that prohibit various aspects of adult prostitution.
Fighting for reform of Canada's sex work laws
150 Canadian Social Justice Organizations Demand Sex Work Decriminalization this Election Monday, September 30, 2019 – Over 150 organizations across Canada are asking the next government of Canada to support sex workers’ rights, including the full decriminalization of sex work as a first step. In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that criminalizing sex …
THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS PERIOD IS OFFICIAL and the elections are coming up on October 21, 2019. The elections can be very disempowering for sex workers, as we come into contact with the systems of power that repress us in so many ways. Some of us vote, some of us can’t vote, and some of won’t …
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Media Release Sex worker rights groups mark Canada’s Human Trafficking Awareness Day with scathing response to Justice Committee Report: Warns of harms to sex workers February 22, 2019 – To mark February 22nd, Canada’s Human Trafficking Awareness Day, sex worker rights groups across the country are highlighting the harms of anti-human trafficking efforts in response …
We are an alliance of sex worker led and allied organizations working to reform Canada’s sex work specific laws and policies.