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The Pivot Post: News from Pivot Legal Society. Issue 3, Winter 2005/06
Publication type:
Newsletter
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Agency:
Pivot Legal Society
Series:
Issue 3, Winter 2005/06
Date:
2005-06
Pages:
12
Collections:
Summary:
Winter 2005/2006 newsletter of Pivot Legal Society, an organization that engages in law reform; legal education; and strategic legal action to advance the interests of marginalized persons in Vancouver, BC. This issue of the newsletter contains articles on plans of SRO residents to sue the City of Vancouver over human rights abuses and destruction of their personal property; police abuse claims filed by Pivot Legal Society now going to court; Pivot's sex work law reform projects, based on a human rights approach; the Hope in Shadows photography exhibition; and news about Pivot's staff and volunteers.
Keywords:
Pivot Legal Society; law reform; Vancouver; DTES; Downtown Eastside; SROs; single room occupancy hotels; police authority; police misconduct; police brutality; police violence; justice system; sex trade workers; sex workers; prostitution; prostitutes; decriminalization; legalization; sex work; sex trade; survival sex trade; housing; affordable housing;