Sex Work Advocacy

• Lawyers for marginalized sex workers set to argue against prostitution laws

  Lawyers representing transgender, Indigenous and Black sex workers are expected to argue Tuesday how laws brought in by the Harper-era Conservatives are too restrictive.

  Canada

  Oct 4, 2022
  
• Jamie Lee Hamilton, ‘fierce advocate’ for Vancouver’s sex workers, dies of cancer at 64

  Hamilton was one of the earliest voices sounding the alarm about sex workers and women vanishing from the Downtown Eastside in the late 1980s and 1990s.

  Dec 23, 2019
  
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• ‘A violation of their basic rights’: Sex worker advocacy group says police violated their privacy

  "They lined up all the women, asked for their IDs and took note of their tattoos and piercings," said the executive director of the Montreal advocacy group.

  Crime

  Jun 9, 2019