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The Women's Equality and Security Coalition Denounces the Missing Women's Inquiry Policy Forums

Date: 
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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WESC is deeply shocked by the way the Inquiry has unfolded, including by recent revelations of disciminatory attitudes towards women inside the Inquiry itself....

Women’s Equality & Security Coalition   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                     April 10, 2012 ...
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Briefing by the Native Women´s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) on the disappearances and murders of Aboriginal women and girls

Date: 
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
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http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/audiencias/TopicsList.aspx?Lang=en&Topic=15
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Briefing by the Native Women´s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on the disappearances and murders of Aboriginal women and girls in British Columbia and Canada.

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Equality-seeking Women’s Groups will continue to demand a change in the laws on prostitution

Date: 
Monday, March 26, 2012
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“We are calling on the Canadian parliament to follow Sweden and other countries by bringing forward legislation that in one hand prevent men from buying sexual services and on the other hand provide economic security to women to protect them from resorting to prostitution”.

The Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                            Equality-seeking Women’s Groups will continue to ...

Equality-seeking coalition hopes court will refuse to guarantee men’s right to prostitution of women this Monday March 22, 2012

Thursday, March 22, 2012 - Monday, March 26, 2012
An Ontario Court of Appeal decision about whether to fully legitimize pimping, brothel-keeping and buying women for sex, is scheduled for release Monday, March 26, 2012 and is awaited by the Women's Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution, a pan-Canadian coalition of equality-seeking women’s groups. The coalition is an intervener in the appeal of the decision by Provincial-level Court Judge Susan Himel in the Bedford case effectively decriminalized pimping and brothel-keeping. ...
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Registration Closed! Flesh Mapping: Prostitution and Trafficking in Canada - the Course!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Local and international activists & guest lecturers to discuss international law, human rights, women’s rights & activist practices. Weekly documentaries featuring global conversations on key issues.   Wednesday Evenings from 6.30-9.30 pm         Location Langara College, Vancouver Main Building, 3rd Floor, Room Number A376 Starts Feb 1, 2012 - 13 week course $260 Sliding Scale REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED - Class is over full! ...
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WOMEN’S GROUPS CALLING ATTENTION TO THE FIRST CASE IN BC COURT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING OF UNDER AGE GIRLS

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is arguing for the abolition of prostitution to end the sexual exploitation of women and girls in Canada. Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter along with other equality women’s seeking groups will be attending court today.

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In Response to Sex Workers United Against Violence Society in Supreme Court of Canada

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Thursday, January 19, 2012 - Saturday, March 31, 2012
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ALLOWING MEN TO BUY AND PROFIT FROM THE BODIES OF WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

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Forum remembers École Polytechnique, fights violence against women today

Date: 
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Link: 
http://rabble.ca/news/2011/12/forum-remembers-ecole-polytechnique-fights-against...
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"The 14 women killed at École Polytechnique in Montreal 22 years ago were remembered by over a hundred participants at a public education forum for ending violence against women, which took pl ...
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SISTER OUTSIDERS Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Broadsheet

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
shut out … but not shut up SISTER OUTSIDERS what you won’t hear inside the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry   January 25th 2012 issue # 4 Click Here   November 30, 2011 Issue #3 Click Here   ...
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STOP BACKPAGE.COM PROTEST

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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Backpage.com facilitated by Village Voice Media is providing a vertual red light district for traffickers, pimps and johns. In this manner Village Voice Media is ading and abetting human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and directly profiting off the buying and selling of woman's bodies.

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