{"id":16970,"date":"2015-11-20T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=16970"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:20","slug":"sex-worker-rights-a-discussion-led-by-terri-jean-bedford","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/event\/sex-worker-rights-a-discussion-led-by-terri-jean-bedford\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec. 2 | Sex Worker Rights: A Discussion led by Terri-Jean Bedford"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The Carleton University Human Rights Society and the Womyn\u2019s Centre will be hosting an event discussing sex work in Canada on December 2nd. The event includes a speech from Terri-Jean Bedford, the woman who took Canada\u2019s prostitution laws to the Supreme Court of Canada for violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Mrs. Bedford will discuss the legal process of bringing the Canadian government to court, her experiences as a sex worker, and the difficulties with Canada\u2019s previous and new prostitution laws. In doing this, she will raise awareness about the complexities around the issue of sex work and its current legal status in Canada and initiate thought provoking discussion among students regarding these important issues. This event will also include a panel discussion including representatives from the community to discuss the complexities of sex work, the impacts of Bill C-36 and next steps for the newly elected government of Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3300\" height=\"5100\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bedford-Event-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"Bedford Event Poster\" class=\"wp-image-16971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bedford-Event-Poster.jpg 3300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bedford-Event-Poster-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bedford-Event-Poster-160x247.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bedford-Event-Poster-240x371.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bedford-Event-Poster-400x618.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bedford-Event-Poster-970x1499.jpg 970w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bedford-Event-Poster-660x1020.jpg 660w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Bedford-Event-Poster-480x742.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3300px) 100vw, 3300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-16970","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2015-12-02T18:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2015-12-02T00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"TC","cu_event_meeting_room":"Fenn Lounge","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"null","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/16970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/16970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=16970"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=16970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}