Sentences with phrase «former sex worker»

At this center, former sex workers come to earn a dignified income by making handcrafts sold through local churches.

But there are also an articulate minority of female former sex workers who say that being a prostitute is a lifestyle choice.

Beulah London starts with two rich upper class women who went to Delhi, India, and were so moved by their experiences that they started an ethical designer clothes business to employ former sex workers.

The case was dismissed by the BC Supreme Court in December 2008 because the Court found that this women's organization, and an individual former sex worker, did not have «public interest standing» to challenge the constitutionality of the Criminal Code provisions.

Ms. Gainsbourg is underutilized as Kasia, the former sex worker, now intimate acquaintance of Kozlow.

This social enterprise is on a mission to provide skills training to former sex workers, while transforming waste products into art.

The SCC was unanimous in ruling that Ms. Keselbach, a former sex worker, and SWUAV, a sex worker - led organization, have public interest standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Criminal Code provisions related to sex work.

That decision granted standing to a public interest group and a former sex worker as part of a constitutional challenge to the country's prostitution laws.

The British Columbia Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday October 12, 2010, that a former sex worker and the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United against Violence Society (a lobby group representing sex trade workers), can challenge the law provisions dealing with prostitution (operating a bawdy house, communicating in public to sell sex or living off the avails of prostitution), alleging that they violate ss.

It was ruled that although the former sex worker and the lobby group lack private interest standing, they do meet the criteria for public interest standing to challenge the constitutional validity of the provisions in issue, stating:

This case involved two applicants — a former sex worker named Sheryl Kiselbach and the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society (SWUAV), a group that works to improve conditions for women in the sex trade.