Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 41: Justice (25-42)

Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation

February 20, 2020

$1.4M per yr over 5 yrs

  • Investing more into programs, services and supports that will raise awareness, prevention and directly help victims and survivors, with an added focus on Mi’kmaw and African Nova Scotian communities.
  • hire family and victim support navigators for Halifax Regional Municipality, Cape Breton Regional Municipality and the South Shore. These navigator roles will provide additional support to African Nova Scotian and Indigenous victims and survivors
  • provide funding to hire a new Crown prosecutor dedicated to prosecuting human trafficking cases and for specialized training for Crown prosecutors on human trafficking issues
  • designate six province-wide positions from the Additional Officer Program as dedicated investigators in the areas of gender-based violence, specifically domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking investigators
  • the province will also provide funding to re-open the Jane Paul Indigenous Women’s Resource Centre