For your convenience, we have listed all of SWAN's "Responsible Reporting" media project resources below, with a brief description of the resource, its target audience and how it may be helpful. The aim of the media project is to help inform journalists about the...
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...
Interested in learning how mainstream anti-trafficking campaigns actually result in harm for sex work communities? Do you want to hear from people with lived experience and those conducting robust empirical research in the realm of sex work?This repository contains...
To combat misinformation, SWAN has collaborated with qualified experts to discuss a heavily sensationalized and politicized topic in Canada — human trafficking.In this resource, Drs O'Doherty and Millar — two researchers that are directly engaged with data collection...
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you? Language can actually have a profound impact. Language shapes our "normal" — the way we think, the way we feel about something and the way we pass those thoughts and feelings on to others. Download...
SWAN's Glossary Unless otherwise specified, these definitions were developed by SWAN to reflect the experiences of the women we serve. Unless specified, these definitions are not necessarily legal or universal in nature. Download the full PDF resource here >Return...