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Sex Trafficking In Canada

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The Native Woman’s Association of Canada (NWAC) produced to aid and support the welfare of Aboriginal women, girls, their families, and community. Aboriginal women endure discrimination on many grounds and this includes sexual exploitation that often leads to human trafficking. The NWAC is taking an abolitionist position and this means they are pursuing to eradicate an organization such as slavery. In terms of prostitution, this term applied to the women oppressed and sexually exploited and trying to eradicate the system. This association wants to bring awareness to issues that go unnoticed, such as the unfair treatment prostitutes and Aboriginal women experience. These women are more at risk of being murdered, robbed, endure police harassment, and the social stigma of being labeled as a sex worker or an indigenous person. …show more content…

Through the exploration, possible resolutions can form a nationwide anti-trafficking policy that efficiently addresses the sexual exploitation of Aboriginal women and girls. The policy focuses on several areas that relate to Aboriginal women sexual exploitation such as; nationwide samples of anti-trafficking policies, the social, economic; legal and historical factors that increase the amount of sexually trafficked Aboriginal women and girls, developing precautionary ways to reduce the helplessness of Aboriginal women and girls, Canadian laws around human trafficking and the legal, impartiality and strategies to report sex-based traffickers and victims in

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