WISH In the Media

Sex Workers on Making Their Lives Better

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‘First-of-its-kind’ report on B.C. sex workers outlines risks, calls for action

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Nearly 3 in 4 sex workers live with a disability, rare B.C. report finds

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Report developed by sex workers brings awareness

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Sex worker survey offers rare glimpse into risks, needs of those often forced into shadows

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Women in DTES experiencing ‘horrendous’ levels of violence

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Profiles in Community Leadership: Mebrat Beyene

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Women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside warn of escalation in attacks, kidnappings, forced druggings

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Guest Commentary: Women are not acceptable casualties in the response to the housing crisis

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‘Vulnerable’ woman set on fire in Downtown Eastside, police say

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Van shortage forces mobile Vancouver sex worker assistance program off the road for 1st time in its history

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Vancouver organization hopes public can help keep their crucial frontline project running

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Supply chain issues leave Vancouver charity without vehicle replacement

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‘Heartbreaking’: Vancouver outreach van serving street-based sex workers taken off the road for first time ever

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Search for new van to give out 62,000 condoms, 74,000 clean needles a year in Vancouver

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Bittersweet first year for Canada’s only shelter for sex workers

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Staffing, isolation-space concerns mount as Omicron moves through DTES outreach workers

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Vancouver’s Decriminalizing Poverty Panel Is Stacked with Police, Advocates Complain

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Vancouver trespass-prevention program hurts people who are homeless and poor, advocates say

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Canada’s First Shelter for Sex Workers Provides a ‘Sanctuary’

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Mebrat Beyene on street-based sex work…and sex as work

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How COVID-19 has exacerbated hardships for sex workers

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‘You always remember everything’ Childhood trauma and B.C.’s addiction crisis

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How Sex Workers Are Protecting Themselves — Because No One Else Will

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Une banque de données de clients agressifs pour protéger les travailleuses du sexe

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Bad date reporting system receives funding that could save sex workers’ lives

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B.C.-wide Bad Date Reporting system receives funding that could help save sex workers’ lives

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B.C.-wide ‘bad date’ reporting system aims to improve sex worker safety

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‘Bad date’ reporting system: What it is, and how it may help keep B.C. sex workers safe

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‘Bad Date’ Reporting Tool for Sex Workers to Launch in Canada

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B.C. sex workers to launch Canada’s first provincial bad-date reporting system

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Less Money, More Danger: How the Pandemic Changed Sex Work

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Advocates demand immediate end to Vancouver’s Trespass Prevention Program

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Nowhere to go: Lockdowns highlight a lack of public restrooms in Canadian cities

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Groups Warn of Increased Violence against Women in the Downtown Eastside

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Side Dishes: Helping the needy

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A potential rape in broad daylight in the DTES

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Daphne Bramham: Chaos and depravity so normalized in DTES that there is no humanity left

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Advocates report steep increase in domestic violence calls during pandemic

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Vancouver Foundation’s evolution set stage for its quick response to COVID-19 pandemic

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Behind the Scenes of Our Pandemic Response

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Canada Just Opened Its First Shelter Exclusively for Sex Workers

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Vancouver’s WISH Drop-In Centre Society opening Canada’s first 24/7 shelter for sex workers

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New Downtown Eastside women’s shelter opens as temperatures drop

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Canada’s First 24/7 Shelter for Sex Workers to Open in Vancouver

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BC’s Police Act Needs Urgent Reform, but the Election Halted It

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WISH Opens Canada’s First Emergency Sex Worker Shelter

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Canada’s first 24/7 shelter for sex workers to open soon in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

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Canada’s first emergency shelter for sex workers set to open in Vancouver

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Canada’s first emergency shelter for sex workers opening in Vancouver

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Temporary shelter to open for female sex workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

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Canada’s First-Ever 24/7 Shelter for Sex Workers Will Open in Vancouver Soon

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First Shelter for Sex Workers to Open in the Downtown Eastside

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Canada’s first 24/7 shelter specifically for sex workers to open in Vancouver

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Federal government funds 10 Vancouver groups focused on gender violence

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Vancouver council votes in favour of abolishing street checks, but police board has final say

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COVID-19 pandemic amplifying need for public washrooms in Vancouver

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As pandemic restrictions ease, Downtown Eastside organizations fear loss of extra funding

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More than 70 organizations sign open letter calling for ban on police street checks in B.C.

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Local jeweller designs bee pendant in tribute of Dr. Bonnie Henry

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Dr. Bonnie Henry “Bonnie Bee” tribute pendant to benefit WISH Drop-In Centre

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The Implications of Covid-19 in the Downtown Eastside

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