Stop enforcing sex work laws during COVID-19, Amnesty, sex worker advocates say
2020-07-05
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Canada's sex work laws are creating undue harm and contribute to human rights violations during COVID-19, sex workers and human rights advocates say, which is why they're now pushing Ottawa to stop enforcing them.
Amnesty International Canada has joined a number of rights and sex work advocates in a lobby effort asking federal Justice Minister David Lametti for a moratorium on prosti .....
Carleton panel shatters sex work misinformation
2020-03-18
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The event was organized by students in a community engagement class to raise funds for the Willow Women’s Center in Vanier—an organization that provides a safe space and harm reduction services for women who do street-level sex work in Ottawa.
Panellists voiced their frustrations around the lack of government and agency action on protecting sex workers and instead focusing .....