Sentences with phrase «sex workers safety»
McDonnell, a dedicated and principled politician with a strong concern about sex workers safety, welcomed the event and expressed his hope that his parliamentary colleagues would listen to the evidence.
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The English Collective of Prostitutes was founded in 1982 to campaign for the decriminalisation of prostitution and to campaign for sex workers» rights and safety.
«How can police claims to have concern for sex workers» safety have any credibility when they abuse sex workers in this way?
The Christchurch School of Medicine review found over 90 % of sex workers believed the Prostitution Reform Act gave them additional employment, legal, health and safety rights.
Despite assurances from the special rapporteur on prostitution and trafficking that police no longer target sex workers, they have often been prosecuted as «pimps» when they band together for safety.
Levy concluded that criminalising the purchase of sex has had a devastating effect on the rights, health and safety of sex workers in Sweden.
Niki Adams is a spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitutes, which has campaigned for decriminalisation and safety for sex workers since 1975.
For one, selling sex isn't illegal anyway and under their proposals sex workers will still be subjected to criminal sanctions for working together for safety.
Pioneering projects in India and elsewhere have shown that when sex workers are able to organize and support each other, HIV prevention and treatment outcomes — not to mention broader outcomes such as safety and wellbeing — dramatically improve.
By challenging these laws, three Ontario sex workers have had an extraordinary effect on constitutional and criminal law in Canada, and have sparked an important debate about the law's effect on the safety and rights of sex workers.
As well, Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) defines workplace sexual harassment as «engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome.»
Because purchasing sex will be a crime, there are concerns that sex workers will be forced to negotiate with prospective clients in hidden locations, which will expose them to safety concerns similar to those caused by the former provisions.
He has urged the feds to send the new bill directly to the SCC for a constitutional opinion, thereby sparing sex workers the cost, risk, and uncertainty of having to litigate protections for their health and safety all over again.
Finally, the communicating for the purpose of prostitution law had a negative impact on the safety and lives of sex trade workers since it prevented them from «screening potential clients for intoxication and propensity to violence [and was therefore] grossly disproportionate response to the possibility of nuisance caused by street prostitution.»
Valerie Scott said sex workers should be able to work with the Canada Revenue Agency, be protected by occupational health and safety rules and workers» compensation and «pension plans!
CARL teamed up with the Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) to intervene in two of these cases: Agraira v. Canada (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) and the momentous Canadian AG v Downtown East Side Sex Workers appeal.
Emile McPhee (Executive Director, LGBTI Legal Service), Sharna Quigley (Queensland Positive People), and Clarissa (Queensland - based sex worker) discussed how the law affects the safety outcomes of marginalized and stigmatized people in the Queensland community, in the context of sex and sexuality.
The law preventing living on the avails prevents sex workers from hiring body guards, drivers, even receptionists, who could increase their safety.
210, 212 (1)(j) and 213 (1)(c)-RRB- because of safety and security concerns to sex trade workers, and effectively decriminalized prostitution in Ontario, another case in British Columbia would like to follow suit.