Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
A Safer Province for Everyone: Responding to Violence Against Sex Workers. Conference Report 2019
On May 28-29, 2019, a diverse group of stakeholders from across BC came together in Vancouver to discuss best practices in responding to violence in the context of sex work. This report highlights the content and outcomes of the conference.
Comparison Of Pay Equity Regimes Across Canada
In 2019, West Coast LEAF prepared a backgrounder comparing pay equity regimes across Canada, including indicators of success and a comparative table summarizing findings.
Live In Caregiver & Caregiver Programs
A policy brief on the systemic barriers and exploitation that migrant caregivers face, and policy recommendations on Canada’s Live-In Caregiver and Caregiver Programs, 2015-2017.
Briefing Note on Pay Equity
In August 2018, West Coast LEAF presented a briefing note calling for proactive pay equity and pay transparency legislation to be implemented in the province.
Telling Our Stories: Immigrant Women’s Resilience
Telling Our Stories: Immigrant Women’s Resilience is a graphic novel created through a series of creative writing workshops with immigrant and refugee women who came together to learn, share, and compile their stories on sexual violence and harassment.
A Roundtable on Sex Work Politics and Prison Abolition: Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Robyn Maynard and Monica Forrester
This roundtable links sex workers’ issues to race and sexuality, police brutality, and prison abolition, bringing different movements together and discussing what should be done to support the rights of sex workers.
Change in Our Back Yard: A Peer Study About the Lives of Sex Workers in the DTES
This report is a groundbreaking peer-led community consultation and survey process in which survival sex workers came together to create and produce research on the lives of woman-identified sex workers in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Change in Our Back Yard: A Peer Study About the Lives of Sex Workers in the DTES
This report is a groundbreaking peer-led community consultation and survey process in which survival sex workers came together to create and produce research on the lives of woman-identified sex workers in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.