The Charter and Criminal Justice System

Pornography and violence against women

• Another world is possible: a world free of all forms of sexual exploitations and sexual oppressions;
• Sexual exploitation, founded on the commercialization of women’s bodies, is in a continuum including pornography, prostitution, sexual aggressions of all kinds, paedophilia, domestic and international sexual trafficking as well as sexual slavery
• The fight against all forms of sexual exploitation forms and integral part of the struggle for the respect of human rights;
• In the total context of globalization the sex industry, particularly pornography, exploits the misery and the vulnerability of women and the most weakened social groups;
• The values conveyed by pornography are based on the commercialization of women’s bodies, the objectification of women, the early sexualization of girls, the eroticisation and sexual exploitation of children, , the dehumanization of the exploited people, particularly women, as well as the consecration of the male role to humiliate and dominate in sexuality;
• Pornography undermines the dignity of all women and children;
• The Canadian government has a leadership role to counter violence against women and children at the international level;
• The government of Canada has a leadership role to counter violence against women and children in Canada;
• The Canadian government show leadership in ending violence against women by innovating means which sends a clear message of promotion of the Canadian Charter of the rights and freedoms and disavowal of pornography