Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau Work, Educate and Resist (POWER) is a bilingual, sex positive organization created by and for sex workers that works to further the rights of sex workers as workers and human beings.
The goals of the POWER are to address the following:
- Raising awareness of the effect of the criminalization of sex work on sex workers, and working towards the repeal of legislation by the government dealing with criminalization and marginalization of sex workers.
- Organizing sex worker friendly social events and celebration functions.
- Providing access to programs, initiatives and services that promote health, harm reduction to sex workers and facilitate access to these resources.
- Working to address legal and social conditions that place sex workers at a high risk of violence from both aggressors and police.
- Promoting sex workers’ access to the same protection of the law from harassment and violence as others, and working to end the demeaning, harassment and prosecution of sex workers by law enforcement officials.
- Providing resources and education to sex workers, social service agencies and the general public through the promotion of rights and health and safety for sex workers.
- Collaborating with other organizations with similar objectives and/or goals.
Our By-laws are available here.