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Resource List on Abolition: A response to Prostitution as Violence Against Women

                        
Globalization and the Sex Trade: Trafficking and the Commodification of Women and Children - Richard Poulin
http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=965
 
CATW Resource Library - http://www.catwinternational.org/resources.php

This status report shows the history, funding and future plans of John School in Vancouver at a recent City of Vancouver Board Meeting - April 2008
http://vancouver.ca/police/policeboard/agenda/2008/080416.pdf

 
 The Secretary-General’s in-depth study on all forms of violence against women - October 2006.
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/SGstudyvaw.htm#expert

  In the North from Corner to Corner: The needs, trends and working conditions of sex workers in Prince George, British Columbia Christal Capostinsky 2007 Document of New Hope Society

On Rape Relief Website:

 Feminist Definition of Abolition-Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/feminist_definition_abolition.html

Abolishing Prostitution through Economic, Physical and Politcal Security for Women-Lee Lakeman

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/Abolishing%20Prostitution_Econ_%20Physical_Political%20Security_Women.pdf

Prostitution: Violating the Human Rights of Poor Women-Shelagh Day

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/Prostitution-v.angl_FINALE_WEB.pdf

Reject Redlight Districts as a Solution to Violence Against Women-Suzanne Jay

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/redlight_districts.html

 Prostitution of Indigenous Women: Sex Inequality and the Colonization of Canada's First Nations- Melissa Farley and Jacqueline Lynne

www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/Prostiution_Indigenous_Women.html

 Rejecting the Decriminalization of Prostitution- Mercuda

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/Rejecting3_Decriminalizationprostitution_commiestura.html

 Pornography and Prostitution: the dangers ahead-Janine Benedet

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/Benedet_porn_prostitutioncanada.pdf

 Turning Outrage into Action to Address Trafficking for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation in Canada. Report on the Standing Committee on the Status of Women.

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/prostitution_report_feb2007.pdf

 Fact Sheet: Prostitution and Trafficking of Women Government of Sweden

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/prostitution_fact_sheet_sweden_2004.pdf

 What Happens when Prostitution becomes Work? Mary Sullivan

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/Legalization-of-Prostitution-Australia-Mary-Sullivan.pdf

 10 Reasons for not Legalizing Prostitution Janice Raymond

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/prostitution_legalizing.html

A critical explanation of the New Legal Challenges to Canada’s prostitution laws prepared by Janine Benedet, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, U.B.C. and Thea Hoogstraten, U.B.C. law student. June 2008

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/new_legal_challenges.html

  Other Resources:

 

 Webcast:Workless party: Public Forum Should Prostitution be legalized before the 2010 Olympics?

http://www.workingtv.com/prostitution2010.html

Webcast From Putting Violence Against Women on the Social Agenda: Public Forum on Ending Prostitution, October 10, 2003 Wise Hall Vancouver , By Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter.

http://www.workingtv.com/main3.html


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