{"id":15134,"date":"2016-11-18T11:18:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=15134"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:09:12","slug":"committee-on-the-elimination-of-all-forms-of-discrimination-against-women-cedaw-fails-to-respect-sex-workers-rights","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/committee-on-the-elimination-of-all-forms-of-discrimination-against-women-cedaw-fails-to-respect-sex-workers-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Fails to Respect Sex Workers\u2019 Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<span lang=\"EN-CA\">November 18, 2016 \u2014 Sex workers and allies in Canada are expressing deep concern and disappointment with the CEDAW Committee\u2019s failure to adequately protect the rights of sex workers in Canada. During an international review of Canada\u2019s progress on women\u2019s human rights, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women sidelined the concerns of some of the country\u2019s most marginalized women, particularly those who are Indigenous, migrant and trans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW) FAILS TO RESPECT SEX WORKERS\u2019 RIGHTS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/15128\/?tmstv=1777108560\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 18, 2016 \u2014 Sex workers and allies in Canada are expressing deep concern and disappointment with the CEDAW Committee\u2019s failure to adequately protect the rights of sex workers in Canada. During an international review of Canada\u2019s progress on women\u2019s human rights, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women sidelined the concerns of &#8230; <a title=\"Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Fails to Respect Sex Workers\u2019 Rights\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/committee-on-the-elimination-of-all-forms-of-discrimination-against-women-cedaw-fails-to-respect-sex-workers-rights\/\" aria-label=\"More on Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Fails to Respect Sex Workers\u2019 Rights\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[158],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-15134","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-sex-work","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21627,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15134\/revisions\/21627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=15134"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=15134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}