revised terms of reference, any more comments or edits?

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Terms of Reference for Canadian Adult Entertainment Commission

Draft 2009

Sex Industry Stakeholder- A person who has lived experience either working within, running a business in or purchasing services/products of the sex industry.

These Terms of Reference were created to ensure localized organizing in various constituencies across Canada have a common set of goals and processes.

Vision/ Goals:

? To come together as an industry for the purpose of increased safety and stability for all stakeholders in the sex industry inclusive of workers, support workers, business owners and consumers.

? To empower and unify sex industry communities inclusive of all genres and genders to increase the security and stability of the sex industry.

? Build community relationships, forge partnerships, identify and engage allies and external expertise in pursuit of CAEC goals.

? Create a community where all sex industry stakeholders are respected and honoured for their experiences.

? To improve the occupational health, safety and capacities of sex industry professionals as employees and contractors within a legitimized profession

? To ensure consumers have access to resources, are safe engaging in sex industry consumption, can maintain discretion, are treated fairly and have clear and choices for ethical purchasing.

? To protect ethical business owners from arbitrary attacks upon their honour, reputation and livelihood by law enforcement, former employees and the system at large,

 

? Design a complaints process and penalty system in partnership with all stakeholders to provide a system of self governance and enforcement for the sex industry.

? Support the formation of craft unions, business improvement associations, consumer groups or trade guilds for all aspects, businesses, consumers or workers within the sex industry.

 

Guiding principles

? Work towards safety and respect of all sex industry stakeholders regardless of their location within the industry;

? Ensure the inclusion of diverse communities, perspectives, capacities and expertise from the sex industry;

? Promote progressive thought, forward thinking and continual positive

change for the empowerment and education of sex industry stakeholders and the community at large;

? Keep harm reduction frameworks at the forefront and work toward social justice and social change to increase quality of life for sex industry stakeholders.

 

Membership/composition:

? Members must be active or former sex industry stakeholders , inclusive of but not limited to; street level, bath houses, massage parlours, ads/ internet, dancers, adult film, off street, phone sex, web cam etc customers, support staff and business owners.;

? Must be 19 years and over;

? vouched for by another stakeholder ;

 

Confidentiality

• Events that happen at meetings stay at meetings;
  
• Project membership and personal identities of members and their
  
• contact information must remain confidential;
  
• Intellectual property and details about projects, strategies and plans are not to be shared with outside entities or individuals except when in the form of a communication strategy that has been designed and approved by the members of CAEC;
  
• Confidentiality extends even after leaving CAEC and must respect the
  
• sex industry stakeholders rights of movement and the anonymity of those involved;
  
• Breach of confidentiality will lead to the immediate revocation of
  
• membership from CAEC.
  
• All existing and new members must sign a confidentiality agreement and sign on to the most current Terms of Reference.
  

Decision-Making

Decisions will be made through a consensus model. All members in good

standing are voting members and will enter any of the following 5 responses to issues that are being considered:

1. Agree,

2. Disagree,

3. Disagree and can?t live with the decision and will resign my

membership (Last resort)

4. Abstain

 

Meeting Structure-Minutes

? Agenda and previous meeting minutes circulated via email prior to

meetings.

? Action column and recommendations will be read at the following meeting.

? A rotating chair will facilitate meetings or an external facilitator may be hired.

? The CAEC recognizes that the meeting procedures and minutes may be available to the public but will refrain from identifying members.

Code of Conduct for meetings

? Never speak in anger; Try to limit disputes;

? Attend meetings ready to work and ready to contribute: alert and present in mind and body. Those on medication or using harm reduction

strategies must employ drug management strategies;

? Honour everyone?s opinion and be inclusive of a range of opinions;

? Be mindful and accepting of diversity and varying capacities: honouring individual members opinions, choices, experiences and knowledge;

? Respect meeting space- from set up to clean up;

? Zero Tolerance to Violence: verbal abuse, physical abuse and threats will lead to revocation of membership in CAEC.

? No personal politics, leave outside issues outside and leave the street on the street