Outcome Report >> Canada, Comment, 30th Session, May 2018

Action Canada for Population and Development welcomed the acceptance by Canada of the recommendation to ensure equal access to abortion and comprehensive sexuality education across all provinces and territories. It stated that major systemic barriers existed across the country that prevented individuals from accessing the abortion services to which they were entitled. It was disappointed that the human rights of sex workers continued to be ignored noting that in 2013, laws that criminalized sex work were struck down but that since then, new legislation that effectively re-criminalized sex workers had been passed. [Para 780]