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October 5: International Day of No Prostitution (IDNP)

On the occasion of IDNP 2024, the Women’s Equality Coalition marks the 10th anniversary of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, 2014, which recognizes prostitution as an exploitative practice and criminalizes those who purchase sexual services and the third parties who profit from those offences, while immunizing those selling their own sexual services from prosecution.

October 5, 2024

Factum of the Women’s Equality Coalition: Supreme Court of Canada – Mikhail Kloubakov, et al.

The Coalition particularly rejects the cruel logic that the overrepresentation of the most marginalized women, including Indigenous women, in the prostitution industry, is akin to an employment equity program, rather than a reflection of profound sexism and sexualized colonialism.

By The Women's Equality Coalition

July 8, 2024

Prostitution Women's Movement

UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women: Report on Prostitution

Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on VAW presentsher report on prostitution and violence against women and girls

June 22, 2024

The Portrayal of Prostitution in the films “Poor Things” and “Suck Up to the Bone”

By Kyoka Tabei

Women’s Equality Coalition response to “Act Now: Preventing Human Trafficking of Women, Girls and Gender Diverse People in Canada”, Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women

March 5, 2024

Women’s Equality Coalition submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls: Prostitution and violence against women and girls

January 31, 2024

Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled that Canada’s prostitution laws are constitutional

September 18, 2023

Prostitution Women's Movement

Press Release: Women’s Equality Coalition praises Ontario Superior Court’s confirmation of the constitutionality of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act

Trisha Baptie, EVE (formerly Exploited Voice now Educating): "The vulnerable and marginalized were finally seen and heard in this decision. Sex buyers, pimps, and traffickers, the root of the issue, were told that in fact they are predators who should be stopped."

September 18, 2023

Sex Trafficking of Women: Vancouver Rape Relief’s Submission to the Committee on the Status of Women, House of Commons

"Until there is no longer a market for sexual access to women and girls’ bodies, traffickers will continue to have financial incentive to recruit vulnerable women and girls into commercial sexual exploitation. The work of shrinking market demand for men’s paid sexual access to women is daunting but we believe it is possible and will require all of us to shift the societal attitudes that sustain women’s unequal position. "

By Laurel McBride

May 4, 2023

Front Line Prostitution

Sex Trafficking of Women: The Women’s Equality Coalition’s Submission to the Committee on the Status of Women, House of Commons

The Women’s Equality Coalition believes that poor understanding and implementation of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA, 2014) is the main cause of inefficiencies in Canada’s efforts to end human trafficking. The Women’s Equality Coalition is encouraging the government to fully implement the Equality Model to protect and support women and girls in prostitution and those who are victims of human trafficking.

April 2023

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