On January 31, 2024, SWAN Vancouver responded to a Call for Input from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, for a report to the Human Rights Council on prostitution and violence against women and girls. Download a PDF of SWAN's brief here...
As a journalist, you have the ability to influence how the public perceives im/migrant women engaged in indoor sex work.
Impact on Migrant Sex Workers: Migrant sex workers experience multi-layered criminalization. Even if sex work was decriminalized in Canada, migrant sex workers would still be criminalized
On June 6, 2012, the Conservative Government of Canada put forward amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR), with the intention to improve protections
SWAN participated in Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women’s (GAATW) global feminist participatory action research study.