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For the Sake of Equality: Arguments for Adapting the Nordic Model of Prostitution Law to Canada

The Women’s Coalition emphasizes that prostitution is both a practice of sex discrimination against women in prostitution, and also reinforces the inequality of all women. Prostitution reflects a hierarchy based on sex in which women are expected to satisfy men sexually on demand, with money and other forms of coercive power substituting for consent. Women cannot achieve social and political equality when prostitution is accepted as “women’s work.”

By Janine Benedet
March 23, 2014
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Prostitution
Indigenous Women Continue to Fight for the Abolition of Prostitution

As women and girls indigenous to this land, who have resisted centuries of colonial oppression, we assert our right to our lands, cultures, laws, and body sovereignty. We reject any ruling that interferes with these unalienable rights. We pledge to continue in the proud tradition of our Mothers and Grandmothers and to continue to fight for our children and grandchildren.

By Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry
December 20, 2013
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Notes from Moazami’s Trial
By Hilla Kerner
October 3, 2013
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Prostitution
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Press Release: Vancouver Rape Relief Monitors Trial of a Local Man Charged with Pimping and Sexual Assault of Girls

The details of this case highlight how girls who have been victims of male violence are vulnerable to further sexual abuse and how men use coercion, threats and violence to recruit girls and women into prostitution and to keep them there.

September 27, 2013
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Press Release: Vancouver Rape Relief’s Statement on the Deaths of Jill Lyons and Karen Nabors
August 29, 2013
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Prostitution
Factum of the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution, Intervener at the Supreme Court of Canada (Canada AG v. Bedford)
March 30, 2013
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Prostitution
Excerpts from Affidavits of Members of the Intervener Women’s Coalition

NWAC has a particular interest in this appeal because it is concerned about the high levels of sexual exploitation and sexual trafficking of Aboriginal women and girls occurring right across Canada. Aboriginal women, women in low income situations, those suffering from mental health and adictions issues, are working in prostitution because of systemic racism and classism, as well as a fundamental power imbalance and issues of inequality which are at the root of prostitution.

2013
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Prostitution
SISTER OUTSIDERS: Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Broadsheets

Shut out … but not shut up SISTER OUTSIDERS what you won’t hear inside the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

2012
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Flesh Mapping: Prostitution in a Globalized World – video
July 2011
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Global Flesh Mapping/Les draps parlent/Resistancia de las mujeres

Women's Worlds, Ottawa

July 2011
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