Document Tag: violence against women

A Brief on the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act Review: Submitted to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, House of Commons

Introduction The Sexual Exploitation in Canada Working Group is a subcommittee of The Canadian Council of Churches (CCC), a broad and inclusive ecumenical body representing 26 member churches throughout Canada. Its purpose is to lead a shared church response to sexual exploitation as a justice and human rights issue that primarily affects women and children. […]

Examen de la Loi sur la protection des collectivités et des personnes victimes d’exploitation: Comité permanent de la justice et des droits de la personne, Chambre des communes

Introduction Le Groupe de travail sur l’exploitation sexuelle au Canada est un sous-comité du Conseil canadien des Églises (CCÉ), vaste organisme œcuménique inclusif qui représente 26 églises membres à travers le Canada. Le groupe de travail a pour but d’inspirer aux églises une réaction commune face à l’exploitation sexuelle, enjeu de justice et de droits […]

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 […]

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 […]

Letter to the Minister of Justice the Honourable Peter MacKay- Prostitution Laws in Canada

Since 2008 The Canadian Council of Churches – representing 85% of Christians in Canada through its 25 member churches – has been hosting the Human Trafficking in Canada Working Group. Together we have been educating one another, reflecting on our values and faith commitments, and advocating together to end human trafficking in Canada. Today I […]

Exploring Human Trafficking: Backgrounder

Human Trafficking Definition (United Nations –Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking UN.GIFT) “Trafficking in persons” shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position […]