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Below are my notes from a seminar that Glendyne Gerrard, the director of Women’s Ministry in the Mid West District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
- Prostitution is violence against women
- Prostitutes start young
- 84% of prostitutes have been sexually abused as children
- Being abused seems to be a training ground for prostitution
- First nations women are at the greatest risk in our country of being prostituted
- 400 children were sexually exploited on the streets of Winnipeg last year
- The youngest victim was 11
- 84% of these children were aboriginal
- Poverty is the number 1 reason women are forced into prostitution.
- Abolition of prostitution is possible in our country!
- Sweden demands to abolish prostitution