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Demonstration For Decriminalization Of Sex Work

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Various sex workers are gathering together to demand for the decriminalization of sex work. We invite all sex workers and our supporters to join us in solidarity!

We will being having a press conference, various speakers, presenting a letter calling for decriminalization to Bill Graham's office, and then marching to the Liberal Head Quarters at 10 Mary Street to hand over the same letter for Paul Martin.

Please join us on October 14th at 1p.m.
Outside Bill Graham’s office at:
365 Bloor Street East

For more information please contact: Sex Professionals of Canada at: 416-364-5603
or email at: vscott@spoc.ca






Here is more info sent to me by one of my peers:

We are hosting a DECRIMINALIZATION OF SEX WORK RALLY AND PRESS CONFERENCE which is being held on October 14th, 2004 at 1:00pm, and being held by the SEX PROFESSIONALS OF CANADA. We are a not for profit organization (once known as CORP Canadian Organization for Rights of Prostitutes), and our main goal is the decriminalization of sex work. Since the communication law was established on December 20th, 1985 the number of assaults and murders of sex workers has gone up 150%! More and more women are working in unsafe areas/condititions and cannot seek the protection of the police since there is a risk for these women that they may get arrested for a prostitution related offence. The following are a few stats from Statistics Canada:

Prostitution is legal in all of Canada and has been since at least mid 1800s
The communicating law (solicitation law) contravenes the right to free _expression

5,658 prostitution related arrests in 2003 in Canada.

Almost all of the 5,658 prostitution incidents reported by police nationally involved communicating to buy or sell the services of a prostitute (92%). The remaining incidents concerned procuring (5%) or bawdy-house (3%) offences

The remains of four Edmonton-area women were found in the first seven months of 2003 alone. The remains of another woman were found in June 2004, and investigators are trying to determine if there is a connection between their deaths and four similar murders that took place between 1996 and 2001

Serial killers, when trolling for prostitutes along a red-light strip, can be reasonably assured that because of their typically transient lifestyle, the disappearance of his victim will not be immediately deemed foul play

The murder rate of prostitutes is by far the highest of any occupation. And most of those murders remain mysteries: A 1995 Stats Can study found a little more than half of the cases involving murdered prostitutes went unsolved, compared with only 20 per cent of other homicides

In 1998, the intergovernmental working group report declared the communication law a failure: "Despite a series of Criminal Code amendments over the past 25 years, the Working Group received compelling evidence that the existing law is not working."

It also intensified the criminal status of street prostitutes, forcing them to work in more remote and dangerous areas and causing increased tension in their relationships with law enforcement

~Have a safe and arrest free day!
 

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Two thumbs, up! We'll be there.
 

Sardonicus

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Done. It's now a sticky on TBP.
 

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From: XXXXXXXX@sfu.ca
Date: Sun, October 24, 2004 1:27 pm




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