Survivor March and Rally held in Montreal, Canada, 2024

2024 marked the tenth anniversary of Canada’s Equality Model law, Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act. To commemorate this milestone and bring together a survivor movement that ensures that this legislation is upheld, along with advancing legislation everywhere, SPACE Intl., along with its partners, organized a survivor’s march and “speak out” at the Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution (CAP Intl.)’s 4th World Congress and 10th anniversary.

The event in Montreal, Canada, in 2024, brought together survivors and allies from nearly twenty countries around the globe. The theme for the CAP event was “Equality in Action”, recognizing prostitution as a form of violence and a barrier to gender equality. The Survivors’ March and the World Congress, which was held on Canada’s First Nations land, brought attention to the over-representation of Indigenous women and girls in prostitution and how this system of exploitation is linked to the historical and the ongoing impact of colonization, racism, economic inequality and intergenerational trauma. The World Congress provided a platform for dialogue and solidarity, in particular among Indigenous survivors from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

Collaborating with our allies, such as CAP Intl. and others, is essential for ending systems of prostitution due to the complex, multi-layered nature of the issue.

SPACE contributed to CAP’s 3rd World Congress in April of 2019 with a survivor march and rally in Germany, a country known as the brothel of Europe. The legalization of prostitution in Germany in 2002 resulted in about 400,000 prostituted persons in Germany, ten times that of France, which adopted an Equality Model–inspired approach in 2016.

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Facade of the French National Assembly building aka Palais Bourbon or chamber of deputies, Paris, France

Survivor March and Rally held in Montreal, Canada, 2024

Past Events

10th Anniversary of the French Abolitionist Law

Advancing the Abolitionist Agenda in Latin America

SPACE at the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women

Standing with Arab Women in their Fight Against Sexual Exploitation