SWAN contributed a chapter to the book, Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance.
Misrepresentations, Inadequate Evidence, and Impediments to Justice: Human Rights Impacts of Canada’s Anti-Trafficking Efforts
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Laws & policies
The Palermo Protocol & Canada
The Evolution and Human Rights Impacts of Anti-Trafficking Laws in Canada (2002-2015). SWAN participated in a collaborative research project that critically evaluated the stated intentions and actual effects of national anti-human trafficking laws
Do Evidence-Based Approaches Alienate Canadian Anti-Trafficking Funders?
SWAN analyzes how the adoption of an anti-prostitution analysis of trafficking by funders will likely result in punitive consequences for immigrant sex workers.
Criminalising clients endangers Asian, immigrant and migrant women in sex work
SWAN submitted a brief to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on Bill C-36: Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act in September 2014.