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Global Flesh Mapping: Day 2

In the context of a racist and capitalist state system that women and especially Aboriginal women experience as oppressive, how can those who advocate for the abolition of prostitution use the government structure?

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Global Flesh Mapping: Day 1

The Aboriginal women who have provided leadership to Canadian feminists were united in their bold demands to recognize prostitution as a form of ongoing colonial violence against Aboriginal women, who are overrepresented in street prostitution.

July 2011
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Press Release: The Charter Does Not Guarantee Men a Right to the Prostitution of Women

The Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution will argue to the court to uphold the laws that forbid men from buying, selling and profiting from women bodies, and to strike down laws that criminalize women who are involved in the sex trade.

By Vancouver Rape Relief Collective
June 15, 2011
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Press Release: Pan Canadian Coalition Granted Leave to Intervene in Bedford Case

Together they argue an alternative both to the prostitution laws that criminalize the poorest and most disadvantaged women while rejecting the proposal to legitimate pimps, johns and bawdy house owners at the cost of women’s constitutional rights.

March 11, 2011
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A Short Funding Herstory

Women who called the rape crisis line also needed a place to escape from the violent assaults committed by their abusive partners, husbands and fathers. Our collective created the House Funding Committee (now known as The Friends of Rape Relief) to raise funds for the down payment on a transition house.

By Alice Lee
2010
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Press Release: Oppal Missing Women Inquiry

WESC rejects the implementation of these legal counsels over whom we have no control, cannot instruct, and yet have been granted the authority to speak for us. As women, and women’s organizations, we must speak for ourselves, choose our own counsel and give instructions, in the same way as the police and Crown.

October 11, 2010
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YMCA Peace Maker Awards
2009
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“What about men?” Housefunding Committee Celebrates 30 Years of Support

Community support was essential from the beginning and there are a variety of supportive communities. By the fall of 1981, a down payment had been raised and placed on a house in East Vancouver, through a series of fundraising activities, including the Walk for Rape Relief, a pledge drive, bottle drives, dances, and women contributing a portion of their own salaries.

By Jacqueline Gullion & Brian Cross
2008
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Press Release: Rights of Equality-Seeking Organizations Protected

On Wednesday, December 7, 2005, the B.C. Court of Appeal unanimously confirmed that Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter has the right to determine their own membership.

December 7, 2005
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Press Release: BC Supreme Court Overrules BC Human Rights Tribunal

Court confirms any woman’s human right to organize with peers.

December 22, 2003
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