March 30, β The Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform β an alliance of 25 sex worker rights groups across the country led predominantly by and for sex workers β along with several individual applicants, have filed a Notice of Application seeking to strike down the sex work prohibitions against impeding traffic s. It reproduces and legitimizes the harmful impacts of the previous sex work offences declared unconstitutional in Canada v.
Bedford and adds new offences that make sex workers vulnerable to human rights violations. Individually and taken together, these laws cause numerous harmful impacts to sex workers, notably by prohibiting sex workers from:. All of these provisions force sex workers to work in a criminalized context where sex workers are isolated from supports, made vulnerable to exploitation, eviction, and subpar working conditions, and targeted for violence.
Migrant sex workers are also vulnerable to loss of immigration status and deportation. The criminalization of all elements of sex work also invites unwanted and unsolicited police presence in the lives of sex workers β particularly for Black, Indigenous, migrant and trans sex workers, and sex workers who use drugs, who are regularly profiled and targeted.
Sex workers from all sectors of the industry have been asking for the full decriminalization of sex work as a vital first step towards ending the stigma, violence and exploitation in our lives; we need the full protection of the Charter, and a commitment from the government to improve our safety and quality of life. Bedford et ajoute de nouvelles infractions qui rendent les travailleuse.
Toutes ces dispositions obligent les travailleuse. Les travailleuse. Tant que la vie et les conditions de travail des travailleuse. The committee is refusing to hear from sex workers and people most impact by changes and regulations to the online site like PornHub. This refers to images or videos that have been uploaded without the consent or knowledge of the person depicted in them. The Committee is not questioning the legality of pornography in Canada nor does it seek to end such activity where it involves consenting adults.
