Event Archive
December 17th International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
December 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. This event was created to call attention to hate crimes committed against sex workers all over the globe. International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers has empowered workers from over cities around the world to come together and organize against discrimination and remember victims of violence. Existing laws prevent sex workers from reporting violence. The stigma and discrimination that is perpetuated by the prohibitionist laws has made violence against us acceptable. Please join with sex workers around the world and stand against criminalization and violence committed against sex workers.
Laura Agustín: Sex at the Margins talk
most migrants and that a Rescue Industry disempowers them. Based on extensive research amongst migrants who sell sex as well as social helpers, Sex at the Margins demonstrates how migration policy marginalises informal-sector workers and how anti-prostitution campaigns turn sex workers into casualties of globalisation.
Free Admission - Donations Accepted
Wheelchair accessible.
For more info, email: ottercatki@yahoo.ca
Co-sponsored by:
The Women's and Gender Studies Program, University of British Columbia
Nakedtruth.ca
PACE Society
BC Coalition of Experiential Communities
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women- Canada
Anti-Oppression/Anti-Racism Activism training session
Open to all FIRST members. Please contact Esther for more information (emls@shaw.ca)
International Sex Workers Rights Day on March 3 2010
How Many Hats Do you Wear?
In Support of The International Sex Workers Rights Day
Join us over lunch, hang up your hat, and veiw stories of work in the sex trade
March 3, 2010, 12:00-1:00pm
Th Glenbow Museum ConocoPhillipsTheater
130-9th ave SE
Free Event
www.shiftcalgary.org or 403-237-8171
Sex Workers, Clients and the Law: A FIRST Public Forum
One proposed "solution" to Canada's antiquated and oppressive prostitution laws is to make it illegal to purchase sex, but legal to sell it. However, this model is failing in Sweden, the country that pioneered it. Sweden's law was expected to reduce the number of sex workers in that country, but very few sex workers have stopped working. While many simply adjusted to the law by choosing to work indoors, some were forced to work underground in isolation, where they are far more vulnerable to violence and abuse.
As in Sweden, Canada’s current prostitution law robs sex workers of their livelihood, and deprives them of the right to control their work environment and create safe and empowering working conditions.
Why Decriminalize Sex Work? A FIRST Public Forum
Please check out the webcast of our first Public Forum. It was held June 8, 2008 and featured presentations by Tamara O'Doherty (Simon Fraser University), Dr. Frances Shaver (Concordia University), Dr. Kate Shannon (UBC), Shari Allinott (Sex Workers United Against Violence), Susan Davis (BC Coalition of Experiential Communities) and Karen Mirsky (Pivot).