The Pulse Interview
SWAN’s Executive Director Alison Clancey and WISH Drop-In Centre Society’s Executive Director Mebrat Beyene are interviewed on CFRO’s The Pulse. They discuss the Atlanta shootings and the province-wide Bad Date and Aggressor Reporting system being developed for BC.
Anti-Trafficking: Harming While Trying to Help
Since the early 2000s, SWAN Vancouver Society (SWAN) has mobilised against human trafficking. Through this work we’ve learned a few things about what makes an anti-trafficking action or campaign effective.
Strategic Redirection through Litigation: Forgoing the anti-trafficking framework to address labour abuses experienced by migrant sex workers
This article explores SWAN’s decision to pursue litigation as a means to challenge and expose harmful crimmigration and anti-trafficking policies
Im/Migrant Sex Workers, Myths & Misconceptions: Realities of the Anti-Trafficked
SWAN created this toolkit to address common myths and misconceptions about im/migrant sex workers in Canada, and to encourage more critical thinking about human trafficking.
SWAN Vancouver- Supporting Immigrant and Migrant Women in the Sex Industry
SWAN contributed a chapter to the book, Sex Work Activism in Canada. The chapter provides a glimpse into a week in the life of SWAN. Chapter excerpt: “‘Wait and see’: a woman who has just...
Misrepresentations, Inadequate Evidence, and Impediments to Justice: Human Rights Impacts of Canada’s Anti-Trafficking Efforts
SWAN contributed a chapter to the book, Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance.
Barriers to Justice for Migrant and Immigrant Sex Workers
A Community-Led Research Project SWAN's research project to explore and understand the barriers to justice for migrant and immigrant sex workers in Metro Vancouver. The project sought to learn how...
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