Indian sex workers are “entitled to equal protection of the law,” a three-judge Supreme Court panel led by Justice L Nageswara Rao announced on Thursday, adding that “criminal law must apply equally in all cases on the basis of age and consent.” So long as sex workers are consenting adults, …
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Thailand has become the first country in Asia to decriminalize marijuana use. The health minister called on people to use the drug for their “benefit” rather than “to cause harm.” Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, a longtime supporter of marijuana legalization, announced in a lengthy Facebook post that the Narcotics Control …
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About 77.3 percent of those eligible to vote in the referendum answered “yes” to the question whether women should be allowed to “voluntarily terminate pregnancy until the twelfth week of gestation” and thereafter if a woman’s health is jeopardized by the pregnancy, or if fetus’s “abnormalities and malformations” pose “a …
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The top Mexican court considered the abortions issue on Tuesday after it was asked to rule on a law in the northern state of Coahuila. The state’s criminal code carried a penalty of up to three years in jail for women who had abortions and for those who provided the …
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