{"id":414,"date":"2005-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T00:44:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-10-04T21:13:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:13:33","slug":"sex-work-rights-reforming-canadian-criminal-laws-on-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/sex-work-rights-reforming-canadian-criminal-laws-on-prostitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, Work, Rights: Reforming Canadian criminal laws on prostitution"},"content":{"rendered":"This report is the product of a two-year project on criminal law, prostitution and the health and safety of sex workers in Canada. We conducted a literature review; interviewed key informants (including through a collaboration with the Native Friendship Centre of Montr\u00e9al); and held a two-day consultation in February 2004 attended by sex workers, former sex workers, members of sex worker organizations, public health and social science researchers, and other community-based organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In this report the Legal Network discusses the three foundations that should guide the review and reform of the prostitution-related provisions of the Criminal Code:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>evidence from credible research and from sex workers themselves;<\/li>\n<li>Canada\u2019s obligations under international human rights law; and<\/li>\n<li>the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Sex, Work, Rights: Reforming Canadian criminal laws on prostitution\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/16063\/?tmstv=1775735296\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[158],"publication_type":[179],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-414","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-sex-work","publication_type-reports","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22485,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/414\/revisions\/22485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}