Category: SPOC in the News

Solicitation challenge to restore ‘right to liberty and sWednesday March 21st 2007By IAN ROBERTSON, SUN MEDIA Sex workers are launching a constitutional challenge of laws that ban bawdy houses, profiting from prostitution and recruiting clients. The Safe Haven Initiative says

CBC Wednesday, March 21, 2007 | 3:08 PM ET Toronto sex-trade workers are spearheading a legal crusade to amend laws they say endanger Canadians working in the industry. In a statement released Tuesday, advocates for sex-trade workers announced they will launch

Mar 21, 2007 12:56 PM Debra Black, The Star A constitutional challenge against three sections of the criminal code relating to prostitution has been filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by three sex trade workers. The challenge argues

CNEWS By ALLISON JONES March 21st 2007 TORONTO (CP) – Canada’s prostitution laws place the lives of thousands of women working in a legal trade in grave danger, amounting to a form of “urban genocide,” a group of sex-trade workers

OLIVER MOORE, The Globe and Mail March 21st 2007 Canada’s prostitution laws are the focus of a court challenge to be launched today by current and former sex-trade workers. The applicants are targeting specific Criminal Code provisions — those dealing

Macleans.ca staff | Mar 21, 2007 | 3:43 pm EST Former sex-trade are beginning a court challenge to federal prostitution laws on Wednesday. Valerie Scott and Amy Lebovitch of the Sex Professionals of Canada and former dominatrix Terri Jean Bedford

February 1, 2007 News and Views By Carlito Pablo @ straight.com online Critics of Canada’s prostitution laws will file two Charter of Rights and Freedoms challenges within the next few months, arguing that current legislation puts sex-trade workers at risk.

Sat, January 20, 2007 By DONNA CASEY, OTTAWA SUN It’s the world’s oldest profession and many experts say Canada’s prostitution laws need a major overhaul to protect the lives of women who sell sex. Starting Monday, a conference at the

Sat, December 23, 2006By CPEdmonton Sun OTTAWA — Prostitutes in Canada increasingly fear they’ll meet a violent end but they’re turning to each other, not the police, for protection. Crimes against sex workers have become so prevalent, they are now

SEX LAWS / Sex laws report lacks substance, activists say Tom Sandborn / Xtra West / Thursday, December 21, 2006 “It was three years in the making and it is vague in the extreme. The recommendations offer nothing,” says Glenn

Hamilton Spectator wire servicesTORONTO (Dec 18, 2006) A leading advocacy group for decriminalizing prostitution in Canada plans to take the federal government to court over laws it says endanger the lives of sex workers across the country. “The communicating and

Updated Sun. Dec. 17 2006 11:34 PM ET Canadian Press OTTAWA — A leading advocacy group for decriminalizing prostitution in Canada is planning to take the federal government to court over laws that it says endanger the lives of sex workers