[IPSM] Prostitutuion - From repression to responsabilization

[Macdonald Stainsby]

Martin, please cease and desist with your anti-sex worker materials.

martin dufresne wrote:
> State brothels, legalized procuring and unlimited solicitation of women by
> johns - it's all coming our way courtesy of the Grits, the Bloc québécois
> and the NDP, who are about to hand in a sub-committee report to the federal
> Standing Justice Committee.
> 
> The State-sanctioned brothels (call it 'job creation', eh...) will most
> probably be zoned in our cities' impoverished areas and staffed with
> racialized women by sex traffickers and pimps, now totally immune from
> prosecution.
> 
> MPs sitting on a special task group have chosen to ignore feedback from the
> countries where such across the board legalization has been tried and has
> failed to reduce street prostitution and violence against women.
> 
> More at http://www.6URL.com/017V
> 
> **********************there is another way***********************
> 
> Prostitution: From repression to responsabilization
> 
> with Gunilla Ekberg
> 
> Thursday, October 27, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
> at Université du Québec à Montréal
> Room DSR-525, Pavillon J.A. De Sève
> 320 Ste-Catherine East (corner of Sanguinet)
> 
> Gunilla Ekberg, Canadian lawyer and feminist, has been working with the
> Swedish government since 2001 in the implementation of a national action
> plan against prostitution and human trafficking. A renowned international
> expert on these issues, Ms. Ekberg has coordinated several multilateral
> projects in Europe to oppose sexual trafficking and he has worked for the
> United Nations on this issue. She explains that Swedish legislation
> sanctions buyers and pimps but not prostituted women, on the basis that they
> do not consent to the organized rape and violence that characterize
> prostitution. Instead, the Swedish model offers prostituted people support
> and access to services and programs that allow them to move beyond
> prostitution.
> 
> Contrary to Sweden, the Netherlands treats prostitution as a legitimate
> business and offer women in prostitution social benefits identical to those
> provided to other workers. What effects do these diametrically opposite
> policies on the problem of prostitution have on the safety of prostituted
> persons and on gender relations in a society such as ours that is committed
> to gender equity principles? A new film on these issues "La vitrine
> hollandaise", produced by French journalist Hubert Dubois, will be premiered
> on this occasion.
> 
> At a time where the Canadian government has decided to review Penal Code
> dispositions on prostitution, we need to reflect on the social challenges of
> legalization or decriminalization, presented as a panacea to the very real
> problems of violence, insecurity and stigmatization associated with
> prostitution. Above all, we need to build alternatives to the repression of
> prostituted people and offer them solutions that respect their human rights
> while remaining consistent with the equality principles we are committed to.
> 
> For further information, please contact: Michèle Roy (514) 529-5252;
> la_cles at yahoo.com
> 
> CLES   is the Concertation des luttes contre l'exploitation sexuelle
> ___________________________
> 
> Web resources:
> 
> MPs at odds over legalizing prostitution, Calgary Herald, October 11, 2005
> http://www.6URL.com/017V
> 
> [PDF] Statement by Gunilla Ekberg, Special Advisor, Division for Gender ...
> www.unece.org/oes/gender/documents/Panelists/GunillaEkberg.pdf
> 
> WomenWatch - News: Women's Issues on UN Radio. 16 May 2003.
> www.un.org/womenwatch/news/unradio/progs/2003May16.html
> 
> Women's Justice Center - Prostitution Links
> http://www.justicewomen.com/cj_sr_prostitution_links.html
> 
> Captive Daughters -
> www.captivedaughters.org/demanddynamics/reducedemand.htm
> 
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Macdonald Stainsby
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