This brief was submitted by Defend Dignity to the UN’s Human Rights Council in June 2024. It was submitted in response to an invitation for input on this report by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls; a report that examines violence against women and girls as a form, cause and consequence of prostitution.   Input for …

This Op-Ed was written by Defend Dignity’s Jenna Scholz and was originally published in the Toronto Star on March 16, 2023. The internet wasn’t designed with children’s safety in mind. Yet in this digital age that’s exactly where they’re spending time — for school, socialization and entertainment. As you read this, children are being exposed to graphic sexually explicit material …