Last updated on:
1/3/2018 |
Author: ProCon.org
Sandra Ka Hon Chu, LLM Biography
- Title:
- Director of Research and Advocacy at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Prostitution Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“The science is unequivocal: criminalization of sex work in Canada, and globally, has been an abject failure in protecting sex workers from violence, predation and murder, and has exacerbated vulnerability to HIV and other health inequities among sex workers…
Protecting the health and human rights of sex workers means removing all criminal laws surrounding sex work, including the purchase of sex.”
Cowritten with Kate Shannon, “Kate Shannon & Sandra Ka Hon Chu: Legalize the Sex Trade,” nationalpost.com, June 11, 2013
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to the study of prostitution. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to prostitution issues. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Director of Research and Advocacy, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Sep. 2007-present
- Member of the Bar, British Columbia (Canada), 2003-present
- Programme Officer, Women’s Initiative for Gender Justice (Netherlands), Sep. 2006-Sep. 2007
- Legal Consultant, Adam Smith Institute (Libya), Mar. 2005-Sep. 2006
- Juvenile Justice Consultant, UNICEF (Timor-Leste), 2005
- Intern, UN Serious Crimes Unit (Timor-Leste), 2004-2005
- Education:
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- LLM, Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (Canada), 2004
- LLB, Law, University of Toronto (Canada), 2002
- BA, Sociology, University of British Columbia (Canada), 1998
- Other:
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