Police across Canada are presenting cases as human trafficking in their news releases, but it’s often just a crackdown on sex workers and their clients. In some cases, police framed child exploitation, drug trafficking, property crimes and firearms offences as human...
SWAN Vancouver conducted a broad community consultation to record women’s experiences about how the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR), which ban temporary residents from doing sex work, is impacting the rights, safety and overall well-being of...
‘You Choose: Seek Justice as a Migrant Sex Worker’ is an interactive campaign in which you step into the shoes of a migrant sex worker. The project highlights the systemic barriers migrant sex workers
Beware of the rescue mentality. Beware of the rescue mentality that is so prevalent in anti-trafficking work. If your mission is to save people and centre yourself as the hero, you could be missing the fact that im/migrant sex workers need rights, not rescue....
How can an anti-trafficking campaign cause harm? While often well-intended, anti-trafficking campaigns carry a host of problems: They contribute to an unfounded moral panic in society They utilize sensational narratives and inflated, debunked statistics They...
The Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR) prohibition on sex work violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, specifically Sections 7 and 15.
