Letter to Ministers: Sexual Exploitation and Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Re: Sexual Exploitation and Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Dear Ministers, We are writing to commend you on the launch of the National Inquiry and to call your attention to the link between sexual exploitation and missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. We ask that the causes and consequences of gendered, racialized […]
Lettre aux ministres : Exploitation sexuelle et disparition et meurtre de femmes et de filles autochtones
Objet : Exploitation sexuelle et disparition et meurtre de femmes et de filles autochtones Mesdames les Ministres, Permettez-nous de vous féliciter du lancement de votre enquête nationale et d’attirer votre attention sur le lien entre l’exploitation sexuelle et la disparition et le meurtre de femmes et de filles autochtones. Nous demandons que soient examinées et […]
Lettre au ministre Wilson-Raybould: Loi sur la protection des collectivités et des personnes victimes d’exploitation
Objet : Loi sur la protection des collectivités et des personnes victimes d’exploitation Madame la Ministre, Nous venons réaffirmer notre position sur la Loi sur la protection des collectivités et des personnes victimes d’exploitation (LPCPVE). Le 15 avril 2014, nous écrivions au ministre de la Justice pour lui faire des recommandations quant à la protection […]
Letter to Minister Wilson-Raybould: Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act
Re: Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act Dear Minister Wilson-Raybould, We write to you to reaffirm our position on the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA). On April 15, 2014 we wrote to the Minister of Justice with recommendations for protecting those who are commercially sexually exploited in Canada and preventing vulnerable […]
Comité permanent de la justice et des droits de la personne: Mémoire du Groupe de travail sur la traite de personnes au Canada
Nous saluons les efforts faits récemment par le ministère de la Justice pour affermir la protection des enfants, des femmes et des hommes du Canada contre la violence et l’exploitation, particulièrement l’exploitation sexuelle, et pour criminaliser quiconque profite des autres et les exploite à son avantage personnel. Nous soutenons les mesures prises par cette proposition […]
To the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, Parliament of Canada: Human Trafficking in Canada Working Group Brief
We welcome the recent efforts of the Department of Justice to strengthen the protection of the rights of children, women, and men to be free from violence and exploitation, specifically sexual exploitation, and to criminalize those who profit from and exploit others for their own benefit. We affirm the steps taken in this proposed legislation […]
Letter to Minister McKay: Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act
Re: Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act Dear Minister MacKay, We are writing to welcome the recent efforts of the Department of Justice to strengthen the protection of the rights of children, women, and men to be free from violence and exploitation, specifically sexual exploitation, and to criminalize those who profit from and exploit […]
Background Paper: Recommendations for Prostitution Laws in Canada
According to world renowned psychologist and researcher Melissa Farley, “prostitution is multi- traumatic with extremely high rates of physical and sexual violence perpetrated against people who are vulnerable usually as a result of gender, poverty, previous history of sexual assault, marginalization because of race or ethnicity, or a combination of these factors.” Proponents of legalizing […]
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