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Introduction:

The 17th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm Conference (the Conference) was intended to promote a global conversation on harm reduction by providing a setting where consumers, advocates, researchers, treatment providers and public policy makers could collaboratively develop realistic, responsive and effective harm reduction strategies.

At the Conference, the BCCEW hosted a one-day working session where sex worker delegates from British Columbia, Canada and other countries and non-sex worker conference delegates met to share information, including regional and national consultation results, and develop recommendations focused on eliminating violence against sex workers and combating domestic sex trafficking. The BCCEW’s report on its regional consultations, From the Curb: Sex Worker’s Perspectives on Violence and Domestic Trafficking, was presented at the working session.

OVERVIEW

Members of the BC Coalition of Experiential Women (BCCEW), along with allies from New Zealand’s Prostitutes Collective, a representative from the Eastern European Harm Reduction Network in Special consultation with the United Nations, the Mobile Access project and members of the Canadian National Coalition of Experiential Women all presented as part of the Sex Work and Harm Reduction Session at the Conference.

This day-long session provided an opportunity for stakeholders to share research and harm reduction related practises and projects with 130 international conference delegates (See Attachment One: Agenda). Delegates included current consumers of harm reduction programs as well as medical and legal professionals, academics and educators, policy makers, government representatives and human rights activists. As noted above, the BCCEW’s report on its regional consultations was presented at the session.