HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN CANADA

November 22, 2021

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN CANADA

CANADA'S CATHOLIC BISHOPS ISSUE PASTORAL LETTER

Monday, November 22, 2021

On 22 November 2021, the CCCB Commission for Justice and Peace released a Pastoral Letter entitled For Freedom Christ has Set us Free: Pastoral Letter on Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in Canada. The letter draws attention to the inherently exploitative and abusive nature of the purchase of sex and insists that in order to protect the vulnerable, this practice must continue to be criminalized: "Treating sex as 'work' masks the physical, psychological and sexual violence inflicted on the prostituted person. Prostitution involves selling something that by its nature cannot be bought or sold and is therefore inherently exploitative."

To read and download the special Letter in PDF format, click [HERE]

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