In this episode students focus on human trafficking in Canada, exploring how women are suppressed emotionally, spiritually, and physically which can inhibit them from reaching out for help, and from speaking up on their issues and experiences. Students explore how Indigenous women don't feel comfortable coming forward due to authority and distrust within prosecution and feel fearful or ashamed due to it being taboo. The main goal is to give publicity to this issue, and bring awareness to how colonial institutions within Canada neglect Indigenous women and girls leading them into unsafe situations. Unstable unaffordable housing, child welfare system, racism with the justice/penal system.
References:
Meaningful and Personal Reports: Sierra and Heidi Marshall
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/human-
trafficking-ontario-indigenous-akwesasne-survivor-2023-1.6760973
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/indigenous-women-trafficking-sexual-exploitatio
n-1.6373597
Reports identified that sex labor trafficking are the most common forms of human trafficking in
Canada
https://www.canadiancentretoendhumantrafficking.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ENG-Hu
man-Trafficking-Trends-in-Canada-%E2%80%93-2019-20-Report-Final-1.pdf
Indigenous women and girls; migrants and new immigrants; 2SLGBTQI+ persons; children and
youth in the child welfare system; those who are socially or economically disadvantaged: and
factors such as
language barriers, working in isolated/remote areas, lack of access to services and support
Indigenous women are disproportionately affected by racialized violence in Canada through
exposure to both historic and ongoing gender discrimination
https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/JUST/Brief/BR10002955/br-external/
NativeWomensAssociationOfCanada-e.pdf
Quote: “Trafficking in person, also known as human trafficking, is often described as a
modern-day form
of slavery that is thought to affect every country worldwide either as a point or origin or
destination”
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2022001/article/00010-eng.htm
https://bright.uvic.ca/d2l/le/content/308201/viewContent/2428290/View
https://bright.uvic.ca/d2l/le/content/308201/topics/files/download/2428289/DirectFileTopicDo
wnload
Page 264 (paragraph 2) and page 267 (paragraph 1)
https://bright.uvic.ca/d2l/le/content/308201/viewContent/2428291/View
What is Gender 305 Gender and International Human Rights ?
Gender 305 Human Rights Conversation is a podcast by the University of Victoria Gender 305 students of 2022 and 2023. Topics span Abortion Rights, LGBTQ2S+ rights, gender-based discrimination, and gender-based violence through the lens of human rights. Thank you to Tamara Gonsalves and all the students of Gender 305, who have spent much time and effort to educate and bring these critical topics to the community.
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Music used in the introduction and outro is the track Wonder by respectful child recorded during CFUV's 2017 Basement Closet Session. https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/track/wonderSession