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Sex-trade workers group wins bid for court challenge


CBC News | Posted: Sep 21, 2012 10:08 AM ET | Last Updated: Sep 21, 2012 7:40 PM ET


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/09/21/pol-sex-trade-workers-supreme-court-standing-decision.html


The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the right of a non-profit group representing women and transgender women in downtown Vancouver's sex trade to challenge the country's anti-prostitution laws on constitutional grounds.

The ruling means the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society can go back to B.C. Supreme Court to pursue a case it launched five years ago. The suit takes aim at a broad range of provisions in Canada's anti-prostitution law, including prohibitions on keeping a bawdy house, living off the avails of prostitution and communicating in a public place for the purposes of prostitution.