Canada V. Bedford
In 2007, three Ontario sex workers initiated a constitutional challenge to provisions of the Criminal Code that prohibit various aspects of adult prostitution.
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NEWS!!! SEX WORKER HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS LAUNCH CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE
March 30, 2021 – The Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform — an alliance of 25 sex worker rights groups across the country led predominantly by and for sex workers — along with several individual applicants, have filed a Notice of Application seeking to strike down the sex work prohibitions against impeding traffic (s. …
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Sex Workers in Canada Need the Support of our Allies and other Sex Workers!!
Sex Workers in Canada Need Your Support! Our online work and livelihoods are at risk! The Canadian Parliamentary Committee, the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, is currently holding a series of hearings on the “Protection and Privacy of Reputation on Platforms such as Pornhub”. https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/ETHI?parl=43&session=2) This process threatens to introduce more …
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Media Release from Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights: 150 Canadian Social Justice Organizations Demand Sex Work Decriminalization this Election
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 …
Who We Are
We are an alliance of sex worker led and allied organizations working to reform Canada’s sex work specific laws and policies.