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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

Prostitution Criminal Justice System

Factum of the Women’s Equality Coalition: Intervener at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform v. Canada)

August 10, 2022

Vancouver Rape Relief’s Brief to the Committee on Justice and Human Rights

By Hilla Kerner

February 22, 2022

Front Line Prostitution

Prostitution Video 1 #NotAChoice #EqualityModelCanada

October 5, 2021

Prostitution Front Line

Prostitution Video 2 #NotAChoice #EqualityModelCanada

October 5, 2021

Front Line Prostitution

Prostitution Video 3 #NotAChoice #EqualityModelCanada

October 5, 2021

Front Line Prostitution

Pan-Canadian Abolitionist Feminist Advocates (PAFA) Launches Canada-Wide Public Awareness Campaign – Prostitution: #NotAChoice

August 3, 2021

New Statistics Canada report about sex-trade-related crime in relation to the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA).

The report reinforces what we know from our front line work about the high number of girls trapped in prostitution and the close connection between prostitution and trafficking. We welcome the improved response of the criminal justice system in holding buyers and pimps accountable and we are calling on our own province, British Columbia, to follow the example of other provinces and do the same.

June 22, 2021

Prostitution Statistics

Opinion: ‘Sugar Daddy’ is a new term for the same old oppression

Men use their social power and money to demand sexual subordination of those vulnerable girls and women by exploiting their financial situations.

By Trisha Baptie

March 8, 2021

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