For International Day Against Human Trafficking, we will screen a Canadian documentary that exposes the sexual exploitation and trafficking of girls and women from Nigeria and Libya to Italy. After the screening we'll discuss how Western imperialism plays in the instability in the Global South, and its direct impact on the conditions of these women's lives.
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.
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.
