"We know that in many parts of the world, being LGBT is criminalized and being perceived as 'cross-dressing' is criminalized," Tobin says.
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Client drug use is a situation that starkly clarifies the difference between a criminalized person and a more privileged person who sometimes indulges in criminalized behavior behind closed doors.
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The modern project was an important effort by people who had been essentially criminalized, whose sex lives had been criminalized, and who themselves had been ostracized for normal human desire.
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Many states already have decided that abortion should be criminalized.
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African drums have been criminalized around the world for centuries.
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Go deeper: Homosexuality still criminalized in much of the world
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I thought it got criminalized during the Nixon Administration, incorrectly.
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The problem is this: Our nation has essentially criminalized addiction.
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Recrimination in a country where several states have criminalized miscarriages?
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Criminalized institutions have staying power precisely because they are corrupt.
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Russia had just recently criminalized domestic violence in July 2016.
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It is heavily criminalized in most regions of the world.
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Homosexuality is not criminalized in Turkey, though homophobia is pervasive.
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We learned just how much the U.S. has criminalized immigration.
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Having done nothing wrong doesn't keep you from being criminalized.
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Go deeper: Homosexuality is still criminalized in much of the world
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American law also criminalized their chief forms of recreation, including gambling.
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One could easily say that [sex work] should be criminalized prostitution.
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We all gotta work to make sure it doesn't get criminalized.
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If abortion is criminalized, should every miscarriage be investigated by police?
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In Louisiana, cyberbullying is criminalized and warrants fines or jail time.
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Wade could be overturned and abortion and forms of contraception criminalized.
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They are felons because there's a system that has [criminalized immigration].
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This steadily criminalized Afghan governance, resulting in today's mafia-style politics.
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In 1990, a multilateral treaty criminalized killing the protected sea turtles.
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The practice was criminalized last year but many villages continue it.
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Last August, the government went a step further and criminalized it.
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SESTA/FOSTA disproportionately endangers marginalized communities because they are already disproportionately criminalized.
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A previous version of the article said the law criminalized those actions.
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The act criminalized efforts by the Klan to re-enslave African-Americans.
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It's likely that the Black person in question was vilified and criminalized.
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Israel has criminalized BDS and has lobbied Western powers to follow suit.
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That decision struck down state sodomy laws that criminalized private, consensual sex.
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I grew up in a community that was over-policed and criminalized.
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Black and brown people have been criminalized for their trauma and addiction.
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Next, Weissmann creatively criminalized a business transaction between Merrill Lynch and Enron.
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Abortion is also criminalized, and lesbian sex is punished by 40 lashes.
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"They told us, 'Hey, we are getting criminalized out here,'" he recalled.
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We have long over-sexualized, over-criminalized and disproportionately punished black men.
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Same-sex marriage is banned in Zimbabwe, and gay sex is criminalized.
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Unlike some other African countries, Nigeria has not criminalized cross-border FGM.
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Same-sex relations are still criminalized in many parts of the world.
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Those cases may require adult intervention, but should typically not be criminalized.
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Homosexuality was criminalized in the '60s and solicitation of homosexual relations was illegal.
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All forms of non-penile vaginal sex are also criminalized under Section 377.
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The attorney said she knows from experience what happens when abortion is criminalized.
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I wanted to honor Black culture because it's often misrepresented, misused, or criminalized.
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"HIV transmission should not be criminalized—ever," wrote Mark Joseph Stern at Slate.
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In West Oakland, homeless people who rely on independent recycling centers are criminalized.
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Chemical warfare was universally criminalized in September under U.N. Security Council Resolution 2118.
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Before now, it typically was not behavior that was criminalized by our culture.
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The misuse or misappropriation of EU and other international funds will be criminalized.
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More than 120 countries have fully criminalized human trafficking since the policy began.
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Muslim nations want blasphemy included, and Israel wants anti-Semitism to be criminalized.
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But too often their stories are made invisible, and their actions are criminalized.
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Uganda criminalized FGM in 2010 with a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment.
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In Qatar, homosexuality is criminalized: Men can be imprisoned for years for sodomy.
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That's just another reason why it shouldn't be criminalized — it's remarkably non-toxic.
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The practice was criminalized in 2018 after a string of high-profile deaths.
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California passed an anti-swatting bill in 2013, and two states have criminalized sextortion.
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Mauritania only criminalized slavery in 2007, and government officials continue to deny it exists.
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In Lawrence v Texas, the court overturned a Texas law that criminalized "homosexual sex".
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The practice is criminalized in all western countries, and outlawed in all 50 states.
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This is not entirely accurate: Oklahoma criminalized the woman as well as the provider.
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Moore has also said that homosexuality is equivalent to beastality, and should be criminalized.
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Ordinances criminalized newsstand comics sales in the late 21950s in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and more.
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Lesotho - 2012: A ban was lifted off sodomy, which had been criminalized in 1939.
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Repeat rape offenders can now be sentenced to death, and stalking has been criminalized.
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Britain and Germany are among nations that have criminalized hate speech in various forms.
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And yet today, Black women and girls are still targeted, hyper-sexualized, and criminalized.
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"The exercise of politics in Venezuela is criminalized, not only towards me," he said.
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In recent years, new laws have also criminalized speech that supports or justifies terrorism.
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It also criminalized hoax claims, making them punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
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VICE News reports from Aceh, the only province in Indonesia where homosexuality is officially criminalized.
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The law criminalized anyone holding a pride event or speaking in defense of gay rights.
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Migrants, especially brown migrants, are being criminalized and terrorized for simply seeking a better life.
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Mauritania was the last country to abolish slavery - in 1981 - and criminalized it in 2007.
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At home, remember, even forcible sexual intercourse didn't have a name yet and wasn't criminalized.
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China started a campaign in 2013 that effectively criminalized the wide dissemination of online rumors.
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I feel like the real problem lies with both drugs and sex work being criminalized.
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Prostitution is not illegal in Singapore but soliciting, pimping or owning a brothel are criminalized.
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Ireland is one of only a few countries that have criminalized psychological or emotional abuse.
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The only difference is that now they are criminalized in order to delegitimize their cause.
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But in Japan, simply possessing a virus without a legitimate reason was criminalized in 2011.
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But if you're black or Latino, you're criminalized at school, you don't have the resources.
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"If safety information is silenced because, it's criminalized, that puts people at risk," she said.
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One of those goals was to defend laws that criminalized gay and lesbian sexual conduct.
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Gay rights in Botswana: The country's high court overturned colonial-era laws that criminalized homosexuality.
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Tens of thousands of families have been torn apart; an entire culture is being criminalized.
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But how can we do any of this if the proper cleaning equipment is criminalized?
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It criminalized looting by pothunters and authorized the president unilaterally to set aside national monuments.
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We criminalized alcohol, heroin and other drugs in this country early in the last century.
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It also prohibited undocumented immigrants from working, and criminalized the failure to carry immigration documents.
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When it's criminalized, sex workers have to prioritize police evasion strategies over health and safety.
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A colonial-era law, Section 377, criminalized homosexuality, which was defined as an "unnatural" offense.
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Lesotho Sodomy, which had been criminalized in 1939, was unbanned in 2012 in Lesotho. 10.
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These laws, like the HB2 law, stigmatize trans people and criminalize a population that's already criminalized.
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"All I did was survive, and I was criminalized for it," Huskins wrote on Facebook Sunday.
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"The institution criminalized me," she told BuzzFeed News from a rooftop café in Johannesburg last week.
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We're disordered and diseased in the minds of some, fit only to be criminalized and institutionalized.
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They end up being unintentionally criminalized because they can be prosecuted for using water without permits.
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This means that you're criminalized for not having money and then charged double through cash bail.
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Harmless acts like speaking to a man or boy outside the family became criminalized, for example.
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Under the proposed legislation, written by an organization called Stop Abortion, all abortions would be criminalized.
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Sympathizers were criminalized and hunted, while its enemies in Russia were given military and financial support.
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But more importantly, Canadians will no longer be needlessly criminalized for using a relatively benign product.
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Spain forfeited whatever right it had to Catalonia when it criminalized the act of voting itself.
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"We're the organization that best knows how to defend women who have been criminalized," said Cruz.
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Throughout history black people have been criminalized for everyday actions that most whites take for granted.
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But that is why he could repeatedly target them in the first place: They were criminalized.
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Among his many complaints was that the group had criminalized one of his daily pleasures: smoking.
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"Anyone Stalin disagreed with was called an enemy of the people, you were criminalized," Iannucci said.
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The law — the first of its kind in the region — criminalized all forms of sexual violence.
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In places across the country, women are criminalized for giving birth while using opioids (or other drugs).
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Consensual gay sex was criminalized in at least some parts of the country until the early 4003s.
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Forced to wear "tignons", or handkerchiefs, their slave status was reinforced and their beauty stifled and criminalized.
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Poverty in America is not only stigmatized, but it's also more expensive long term and borderline criminalized.
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Nearly all the others have criminalized homosexuality with sentences ranging from one month to life in prison.
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Warren vows to repeal the 1994 crime bill, saying the United States has criminalized too many behaviors.
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If we give guns to teachers, Black students are going to be hurt and criminalized the most.
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Even when online violence is criminalized, law enforcement officers often do not appreciate its gravity, Giugni said.
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Since then, the City Council has criminalized K2 possession and distribution, with good intentions but unclear results.
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The country's Supreme Court today struck down a British-era law from 1861 that criminalized gay sex.
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He estimated that 203,000 of 65,000 men convicted under laws that criminalized gay sex were still alive.
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There is a dark irony to dancing being criminalized in a city that used to never sleep.
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Watch: Faces of Resistance: Blair Imani Muslim women are not the only ones criminalized by such bans.
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Creativity, imagination and hope die slow deaths in a country where any expression of dissent is criminalized.
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In their generation, there was a time when queer people were surveilled by the police and criminalized.
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There are trigger laws, which literally are laws that say the day Roe ends, abortion is criminalized.
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Such a ban would also have effectively criminalized homosexuality, since Indonesia does not recognize same-sex marriage.
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Our names were replaced with Turkish names, our language banned, our music criminalized and our existence denied.
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I got goose bumps and my heart sank when it panned to India, [which has] criminalized homosexuality.
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If abortion were criminalized, Elizabeth Warren said, that would not stop wealthy women from getting an abortion.
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Regardless of legislative changes, juvenile trafficking victims are often erroneously criminalized for crimes related to their victimization.
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"Now the Baka are being illegally evicted in these areas and criminalized when they hunt," Hurran said.
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The law criminalized their activities, allowed the police to hold yakuza bosses responsible for their underlings' actions.
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Butina&aposs attorney, Robert Driscoll, has called the allegations "overblown" and said prosecutors had criminalized mundane networking opportunities.
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Homosexuality is not explicitly criminalized in Egypt, but LGBT people have long been targeted under laws on debauchery.
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Marina became a suspect in a crime that wasn't even committed because trans people are often unnecessarily criminalized.
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She also thinks that in the event that abortion were illegal, women should be criminalized in some instances.
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Boycotting the vote is risky following a presidential decree that criminalized calls to abstain from casting a ballot.
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So if you disagreed with Stalin you were labeled an enemy of the people and you were criminalized.
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We now know that some of the very people being criminalized are those that need the most protection.
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Enforcing the law Mauritania officially criminalized slavery in 2007 and established special courts for hearing cases in 2015.
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Marital rape, while criminalized in the United States, also remains a vastly under-reported and under-prosecuted crime.
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Three years ago, Azerbaijan criminalized defamation on the Internet, meaning many people now use aliases and covert accounts.
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"I think there is a degree of righteous concern about drug use being criminalized this way," he said.
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Cannabis has gone from a criminalized drug to a multibillion-dollar global boom in just a few years.
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In Egypt, homosexuality is not explicitly criminalized, but LGBT+ people have long been targeted under laws on "debauchery".
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Last year, Poland introduced a controversial law that criminalized implying that Poland was complicit in Nazi war crimes.
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"I want to know what was said during that call that dehumanized me and criminalized me," she said.
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The studies are "a model for revisiting criminalized compounds of interest in a safe, ethical way," they wrote.
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We must create a working future for all, with more economic stability in communities that are over-criminalized.
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Several nations in Europe, including Austria, Italy, France, and Spain, have criminalized doping in sports to varying degrees.
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The government criminalized my ilk, painting an image of me and those like me as violent and ruthless.
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Until that day, humanitarian aid is vital to the preservation of human life and must not be criminalized.
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At the time, homosexuality was criminalized and most gay bars, including the Stonewall, were operated by organized crime.
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A few years later, the Supreme Court overruled the High Court judgment and criminalized same-sex relations again.
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In El Salvador, abortion is absolutely criminalized in all cases, even when a pregnant woman's life is endangered.
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In March 2013, new laws were passed that criminalized stalking, voyeurism, groping and assault with intent to disrobe.
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The appeals court found that the law violated the First Amendment because it criminalized constitutionally protected free speech.
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However, the power to push for charges is newer in Australia as cartel conduct was only criminalized in 2009.
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Many of these athletes, like openly gay athlete Amini Fonua, come from countries like Tonga, where homosexuality remains criminalized.
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DP: Five thousand to 10,000 women died per year when abortion was criminalized, but what does that even mean?
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The Firearms Policy Coalition criticized lawmakers for trying to regulate the devices and wrote that AB1949 criminalized nonviolent behavior.
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We have written articles expressing the belief that mental health professionals should not be criminalized for providing talk therapy.
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"We feel that any 'pornography' that doesn't involve explicit consent should be criminalized," Bowden, the creator of BADASS, said.
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Unauthorized reselling has been criminalized in Britain for soccer since 1994 but it remains legal for plays and concerts.
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Same-sex behavior is not criminalized under East Timor's laws but they also do not offer protection against discrimination.
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That is despite the practice being abolished in 1981 and criminalized in 2007, the year before he took power.
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Whether or not it is criminalized, we cannot prevent sexting, just as we cannot prevent teenagers from having sex.
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Anatomy of a Scene The science-fiction drama "Equals" imagines a future where emotions have become pathologized and criminalized.
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His running mate was conservative cleric Ma'ruf Amin, who supports Sharia law and believes that homosexuality should be criminalized.
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"Jokowi has criminalized clerics and that has been very hurtful for the Muslim public," said cleric Cecep Abdul Halim.
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The protester, Gregory Johnson, was charged under a state law that criminalized desecrating the flag and appealed his conviction.
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Since 2010 Lithuania has criminalized "denial or gross trivializing" of either Soviet or Nazi genocide or crimes against humanity.
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"What happens sometimes for women of color is that we are criminalized for the choices we make," she said.
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They could be asking whether people who have been criminalized should be subjected to the forces of organized violence.
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Vacation travelers can choose their destination, but many of us choose to travel to places where we are criminalized.
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An 1860 colonial law that criminalized same-sex intimacy as "unnatural sex" stayed on the books in independent India.
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In "Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love," Ms. Wolf examined how Victorian laws criminalized same-sex relations.
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Second, it was not until 2000 that Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act which formally criminalized sex trafficking.
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But many in the country argue that doctors providing the illegal procedures are the ones who should be criminalized.
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For nearly two decades, El Salvador has criminalized abortion in all circumstances imposing harsh penalties, including incarceration, for women.
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Since Chhaupadi was criminalized in 2017, police inspector Bam said the practice "has been largely eradicated" in Doti district.
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The law was supposed to prevent online sex trafficking, but instead criminalized online sex work and suppressed free speech.
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It was criminalized in the United States not because of public health concerns, but to advance a racist agenda.
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In some states, such as Alabama and Florida, polyamory is effectively criminalized through anti-adultery and anti-bigamy laws.
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Britain had criminalized male homosexuality since 1553, and extended similar policies to the colonies it developed around the world.
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At that time, sodomy laws criminalized homosexual behavior, so you couldn't really find any recourse in the justice system.
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Ivory Coast is one of the few African countries where same-sex acts are legal and have never been criminalized.
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In a statement, Butina&aposs attorney, Robert Driscoll, called the allegations "overblown" and said prosecutors had criminalized mundane networking opportunities.
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In 70 countries around the world, consensual same-sex sexual activity is criminalized, punishable by imprisonment, torture, and even death.
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The problem is that under President Trump, what you get is a situation where dealing with immigrants has become criminalized.
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Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill in 2014 that criminalized same-sex relationships, despite pressure from Western governments.
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"Private acts between consenting adults is something which no government should have criminalized as unfortunately we have done," he said.
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The technique is used only in cases of criminalized HIV or hepatitis C transmission, and not all attorneys seek it.
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Read more: Cannabis has gone from a criminalized drug to a multibillion-dollar global boom in just a few years.
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"The truth is, there was no hunting down of people in Chemnitz... The citizens who demonstrated were criminalized," said Gauland.
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It turned up for sale on the internet in the late 90s, before the government finally criminalized it in 2003.
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My son, a kind and loving father of two young children, was criminalized during his first episode of psychotic illness.
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Seychelles - 2016: The Indian Ocean island state repealed the parts of its penal code that criminalized same-sex relations. 6.
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Tanzania still has anti-sodomy laws on the books, a vestige of British colonialism, though homosexuality itself is not criminalized.
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And the Caribbean Court of Justice struck down a law in Guyana that criminalized the wearing of gender-nonconforming clothing.
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Picketing is a highly public way of putting pressure on managers and is only accessible to those who aren't criminalized.
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At a time when homosexuality was still being criminalized, Rich had acknowledged her lesbianism , while Sontag was silent about hers.
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A new law introduced in early March effectively criminalized the posting of content critical of the regime on the internet.
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And on Sunday, a new law which criminalized the posting of content critical of the government online came into effect.
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Online defamation is still criminalized and the law is often used by government officials and the military to silence dissent.
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Domestic abuse was criminalized in 2013, according to Human Rights Watch, but the government does little to enforce the law.
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In April 2019, Ohio lawmakers passed a bill that would have criminalized abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
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But he didn't discuss the fact publicly because, for most of his life, homosexuality was illegal or criminalized in England.
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It would build on a 2010 law that criminalized making or distributing videos depicting the killing or torture of animals.
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The festival is just one element of the organization's mission, which includes advocating for the repeal of Article 230 (a law created during the French colonial period that criminalized homosexuality and still stands), and defending the rights of the "marginalized, stigmatized and criminalized," in the words of Cyrine Hammemi, 24, the festival's regional coordinator.
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Baquerizo's novel is set in the early 20113s, when homosexuality was still criminalized and hundreds of clinics operated in the country.
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In England, it's legal to exchange sex for money, but street-based workers are often criminalized through loitering and soliciting laws.
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It was shut down in April after it was seized by the feds for enabling sex trafficking and criminalized sex work.
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If we are criminalized for what we do with our bodies, the reality is clear: women do not own our bodies.
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We celebrate in June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots, a noted and violent stand against police raids that criminalized LGBTQ identities.
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Even though Kelly is Black (making him more likely to be criminalized than his white peers), so are his alleged victims.
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"My regret is that I have now heard stories that where, in some jurisdictions, DAs have criminalized the parents," Harris said.
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Another option is the use of medications, such as misoprostol, commonly known as cytotec, the sale of which is also criminalized.
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"Ways of working that have long been encouraged by the NIH and many research institutions ... are now quasi-criminalized," Waldman writes.
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"We hear from sex workers in France and Ireland that attacks have gone up since clients were criminalized there," said Adams.
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It also eliminated Pell Grants for prison inmates, functionally killing many of their chances at higher education, and criminalized gang membership.
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The web series People Like Us offers a close look into the gay community in Singapore, where homosexuality is still criminalized.
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Voices are being silenced and bodies criminalized over access to water and rights of the sovereign nation to protect their lands.
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"Protests for peace and for saving people trapped by violent conflict should not be criminalized," the EU said in a statement.
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Under Sessions' leadership, immigrant families will be criminalized and police reform efforts will stop dead in their tracks, among other things.
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Over 603 years ago, a vastly criminalized presidential administration was brought down through a combination of leaks, reporting, and Congressional action.
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Jamaica from 2011 to 2013 repealed its laws that criminalized libel and amended constitutional provisions regarding freedom of expression, it said.
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"I'll keep expressing my opinion even though I could be criminalized," said Kornkritch Somjittranukit, a contributor to Thailand's online publication Prachatai.
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The same day, the German government announced it would overturn convictions handed down decades ago under a law that criminalized homosexuality.
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I've seen my uncles and aunts fight against these big companies to protect our territories, and they've been criminalized for that.
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More women like Yocca will be targeted, criminalized, and victimized by a system that often treats bodily autonomy as inherently criminal.
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Because British colonial law criminalized the hijra—a law that was not struck down until 2009—the community became deeply marginalized.
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Those already working under similar laws tell us repeatedly that criminalizing sex buyers means that they too are criminalized and endangered.
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It is true that, much to the surprise of many Americans, domestic terrorism is defined but not criminalized in federal law.
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Officials in a country where homosexuality is criminalized someday soon may turn to facial analysis to identify gay men and women.
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Since abortion is criminalized with a penalty of up to three years in prison, women are being incarcerated at alarming rates.
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The bail outs also call attention to the fact that people are being locked up and criminalized for unaddressed societal problems.
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When drugs were banned and criminalized, black markets and drug cartels easily filled the gap and provided the drugs to people.
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Last year, homosexuality was criminalized in nearly half of the provinces in Iraq — the same provinces that were under ISIS control.
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"Having that barrier makes it a lot harder if it's criminalized," said Jordan R., a 26-year-old Romney/Clinton voter.
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For example, a government could potentially identify members of a closed LGBT Facebook group in a country where homosexuality was criminalized.
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Court cases focusing on guilt or innocence make for winner-take-all solutions and exclude those criminalized from the political process.
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The measure's passage comes roughly 120 years after a committee in the lower chamber defeated legislation that would have criminalized lynchings.
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Nigeria Nigeria passed a bill in 2014 that criminalized same-sex relationships with penalties of up to 14 years in prison.
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An earlier draft of the legislation from 2014 would have criminalized gay sex with up to 20 years in prison. 8.
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But it did so in a way that forced some of that discussion underground, criminalized political activity, and increased public cynicism.
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Those trained to do the work of explaining our immigration laws and helping others navigate it should be supported, not criminalized.
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As independent contractors who aren't eligible for unemployment benefits and sex workers whose labor is often criminalized, strippers are especially vulnerable.
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The government also introduced legislation to expunge "unjust convictions" from the judicial records of people charged under laws that criminalized homosexuality.
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Mr. Assad's government, which has effectively criminalized the providing of health care in opposition-held areas, has repeatedly bombed humanitarian sites.
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Seychelles In 2016 the Indian Ocean island state repealed the parts of its penal code that criminalized same-sex relations. 103.
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Roldugina has found that after Stalin re-criminalized male gay sex in 1934, 700 to 1500 people were arrested each year.
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Expressing resistance to oppression and Occupation through poetry is by nature non-violent and should not be criminalized by any government.
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Just as youth of color have been disproportionately criminalized in schools, so has the style of clothing many of them enjoy.
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Homosexuality is taboo in Malaysia, where gay sex is criminalized, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, caning or a fine.
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They also cause impacted communities to recoil and withdraw, making them more likely to be re-criminalized and targeted by hate violence.
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"This is a good first step to ensuring justice and a path forward for the most vulnerable and criminalized in our society."
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But why do so many victims of violence, especially women of color, end up getting criminalized when they should be getting help?
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The bill also repeals two old, unenforced pieces of legislation that criminalized the procedure and could have limited access if Roe v.
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Saudi Arabia is a conservative kingdom where people in some public places are segregated by gender and same-sex relationships are criminalized.
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"They have been criminalized by the government and under great pressure," Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Turkey representative Erol Onderoglu told BuzzFeed News.
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"It's about picking the lesser of two evils," Nadelmann said, referring to criminalized prohibition on one end and legalization on the other.
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In a tweet, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said saving lives was a humanitarian obligation and sea rescue should not be criminalized.
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You arrest people for selling drugs, they become criminalized, and it destroys any opportunity they had to be productive members of society.
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They're guys whose creativity and social pastimes are criminalized and demonized, but they also serve as an inspiration to generations of people.
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Current algorithmic biases, whether intentional or inherent, are creating a system whereby the poor and minorities are being further criminalized, and marginalized.
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The documentary shows how racial tensions in cities like Los Angeles peaked with the war on drugs that criminalized men of color.
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Sex work is still criminalized across much of the United States, and much of the rest of the world, other than Amsterdam.
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And if Juggalos are the first to be criminalized for their musical taste, are they just a taste of what's to come?
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Publicly denying the Holocaust, for instance, is a criminal offense, and more recent laws have criminalized speech that supports or justifies terrorism.
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It criminalized the act of sheltering a fugitive and required local authorities to assist the claimant in recovering his lost human property.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the dates of two court rulings involving an Indian law that criminalized same-sex relations.
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Instead of working to close the gap between the rich and the poor, poverty and homelessness are being criminalized around the world.
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Changing attitudes In 1953, South Korea criminalized abortion in most circumstances, with exceptions granted to cases involving rape, incest and genetic disability.
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Currently, sex work is criminalized everywhere in the U.S., with the exception of some counties in Las Vegas where it was legalized.
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Montgomery, another Alabama city, recently repealed its own anti-panhandling law after pressure from advocates who charged the statute essentially criminalized poverty.
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Though Nepal criminalized the practice last year, many villages in the country continue to follow the taboo, known as chhaupadi in Nepali.
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They were founded on state and local Sunday observance laws, which criminalized engaging in leisure activities on Sunday, without specifically citing baseball.
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Activists have long highlighted the way victims are put off going to the police because they know they risk being criminalized themselves.
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Under the new Nazi statute, any act construed to be homosexual was criminalized—a wrong glance could land a man in prison.
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Naim described Venezuela as a "criminalized country," rife with local and transnational gangs "maybe even more lethal and more dangerous" than the military.
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However, legal experts believe that women would not be criminalized under HB 481 because the state's legal code offers specific protections for women.
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The United Kingdom criminalized marital rape in 1991, while North Carolina was the last American state to ban it as recently as 1993.
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I think that there are other people who are risking arrest here who are also undocumented and have been criminalized in different ways.
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Not only are suffering people criminalized and denied effective treatment, but researchers are blocked from even investigating the therapeutic potential of banned drugs.
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Section 377 criminalized "whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature," and sentences ranged from 10 years to life in prison.
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That said, consenting sex workers and victims of sex trafficking often are unjustly criminalized when they report victimization to police, which is unacceptable.
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Others are afraid of being deported home or criminalized for being in the possession of fake papers arranged by their pimps, campaigners say.
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" Dr. Dyson criticized the justice system's treatment of those with drug additions, saying that white Americans "get medicalized," but black Americans "get criminalized.
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"DEFAMED, CRIMINALIzED AND ISOLATED" Elmer was arrested twice in Switzerland, in 2005 and in 2011, and spent over seven months in investigative custody.
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Earlier that year, Lodha championed a law banning the slaughter of cows, which essentially criminalized an industry run primarily by minorities, mostly Muslims.
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Stewart also wrote of his August 2018 interview that Epstein openly discussed the allegations against him and suggested underage sex shouldn't be criminalized.
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The act of hacking should be a crime, but if publishing the hacked material were to be criminalized, First Amendment issues might arise.
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"I wanted to avoid a situation where those children end up being criminalized ... because we failed them in the earliest stages," she said.
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The same populations vulnerable to HIV infection—injection drug users and sex workers in particular—are also those who tend to be criminalized.
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It's almost impossible to disentangle the harms caused by the drug business and the harms caused by the fact it's a criminalized industry.
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The state law criminalized advocating violence as a means of accomplishing political reform, and he was sentenced to up to 10 years prison.
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But blaming black men for being absent fathers completely ignores the underlying causes — specifically, policies that criminalized an entire generation of black men.
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Worried that young people inspired by the craze might use nunchucks to cause havoc, New York State lawmakers criminalized the weapon in 1974.
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Last year, Malaysia criminalized sexual grooming, in which an adult creates an emotional bond with a child for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
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The lawyer also expressed "serious concern" caricature, parody and satire "which by their very nature may involve some embellishment" would now be criminalized.
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Decades of violence have left them fragmented and split, sometimes young, criminalized and extremist, other times ageing and unsure of their command structure.
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Physicians for Human Rights corroborates claims that Bashar al-Assad's government has criminalized giving care to its enemies, a violation of international law.
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Federal law had previously only prohibited animal fighting and only criminalized animal cruelty if the wrongdoers create and sell videos depicting the act.
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Consensual sex outside of marriage would also be criminalized, effectively outlawing all homosexual relationships as gay marriage is not recognized in the country.
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Miss Universe&aposs first openly gay contestant strutted down the runway on Sunday night despite coming from a country where homosexuality is criminalized.
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Protests started after the government raised public transportation fares, a move many said criminalized the poor in one of Latin America's wealthiest nations.
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In short, not only have successive conservative legal efforts curtailed and criminalized affirmative action, they have limited severely, if not reversed, affirmative action.
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Netsweeper's clients include the United Arab Emirates, where same-sex relations are effectively criminalized, Toronto-based research hub the Citizen Lab previously found.
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These critical opinions, however, were quickly silenced through official censorship efforts, which criminalized anti-war speech and encouraged people to spy on their neighbors.
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Many tweeted that even if abortion were to be criminalized, women would still find other, potentially dangerous and life-threatening means to obtain them.
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So it then inspired me to take that negative stereotype, and turn it into something so beautiful that it could no longer be criminalized.
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But the LGBTQ+ subculture has often been misunderstood and misrepresented by an America that has long discriminated against and even criminalized same-sex activity.
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Luo and other Decrim NY members have been pushing for a legislative fix for the ways sex workers are currently criminalized in New York.
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Or how Layleen Polanco might not have died earlier this month in that same jail if she hadn't been criminalized as a sex worker.
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And the government's disastrous attempts to stem the problem have only made it worse: Emigration has increased since the state criminalized it in 2009.
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Indian television's newfound openness rests with a Supreme Court decision in September, which struck down a British-colonial era law that criminalized gay sex.
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Definitely not queer people, who could be outed against their will, including by governments in countries where sex with same-gender partners is criminalized.
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For many in Northern Ireland—the only country in northern Europe where abortion remains criminalized, punishable by lengthy prison sentences—it's time for change.
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Unfortunately, a legal environment in which marijuana is criminalized and its consumers are stigmatized is not conducive to imposing such commonsense, evidence-based practices.
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The activities of China's human rights lawyers and civil society advocates were also further criminalized and credible reports emerged of their torture in detention.
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Phil Murphy (D) criminalized the purchase of firearm parts with the goal of assembling a gun without a serial number, news site NJ.com reported.
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While criminalized under domestic penal codes, espionage is not explicitly proscribed under international law; rather, it is accepted as a reality of international relations.
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But perhaps it is just a criminalized version of what many of us voluntarily submit to in daily commerce or by using social media.
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"Imagine an America in which women are barred from getting IUDs or birth control pills, and doctors are criminalized for prescribing them," she added.
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Female genital mutilation was criminalized in the U.S. in 1996, and in 2013, the Obama administration outlawed taking a girl overseas for the procedure.
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Do you think this type of behavior—which many victims experience as threatening—should be criminalized, or are there alternative ways of combatting it?
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Although homosexuality is criminalized, it's a non-enforced law unless you are convicted of molestation or rape; then they'll put the law in action.
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There is seemingly no hurry to deal with the people criminalized by their involvement with this plant, simply a push to criminalize more people.
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Tea dances also have a radical, inclusive place in social justice history: providing space for LGBTQ people when they were criminalized for being themselves.
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Reality: Unlike President Obama, who was called out by left-leaning newspapers for coming dangerously close to doing this, Trump has not criminalized journalism.
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In the UK, under the 2003 Sexual Offense Act, the act of public masturbation is often criminalized under Section 66—the crime of exposure.
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In general, "prostitution remains illegal and criminalized across the country," Kate Mogulescu, an assistant professor of clinical law at Brooklyn Law School, told Vox.
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Throughout American history, this treatment has created an underclass of people who are criminalized, isolated, and labeled as inherently dangerous, says criminologist Gary Potter.
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It underscores the risks for doctors when abortions are criminalized, and the potential for black doctors to face higher scrutiny and possibility of prosecution.
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And earlier this month, a new law came into effect which criminalized the posting of "illegal" and "negative" content critical of the government online.
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Asked her specific qualms with Comey, she said he had "criminalized" the Black Lives Matter movement and mentioned his impact on the 2016 election.
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Where sex work is illegal, criminalized or both, workers are forced underground and often subject to harassment by the police, according to Amnesty International.
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According to Paltrow, in countries where abortion is criminalized, many women who experience miscarriage are reported to the police and end up in jail.
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More than 70 countries around the world still criminalized homosexuality, according to 2017 statistics from the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.
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She continues connecting the dots to contemporary legislative and judicial actions across the country that have disproportionately criminalized blacks and suppressed their voting rights.
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Studies have repeatedly shown that people of color are disproportionately criminalized for cannabis use, while white men tend to profit from legal weed business.
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The country's military dictator, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, criminalized the Muslim Brotherhood after he overthrew an elected Muslim Brotherhood government in a 2013 coup.
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Abortion in El Salvador has been criminalized in all circumstances for the past two decades, after the country's legislature decreed that life begins at conception.
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As for the legal side, lawmakers in Northern Ireland criminalized revenge porn in February 2016, a year after it was outlawed in England and Wales.
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Some of this censorship has been reined in after India's Supreme Court struck down Section 377, a British-era law that criminalized homosexuality, last September.
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But changing the laws requires policymakers (and to some extent, the larger public) to respect and humanize people who are currently both stigmatized and criminalized.
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Citi, which has said the regulator appeared to have criminalized standard practices in capital raisings without warning, and ANZ were not immediately available for comment.
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The problem with our current model is that clients are in fear of being criminalized, and are now unwilling to provide personal information for screening.
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Legislators told BuzzFeed News the decision to repeal the promotion charge is necessary to ensure that sex workers are not criminalized for supporting one another.
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LSD wasn't criminalized in the United States until the end of 1968, and drugs more generally were not particularly difficult to come by on campus.
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Yet while one group of recyclers is valorized and financially rewarded for their efforts, another constituency is criminalized and harassed for simply trying to live.
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The saddest part is that these young men—including two teenagers—will be further criminalized and marginalized rather than educated, rehabilitated, and brought into society.
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While the law decriminalized soliciting for sex, it criminalized the purchase of sex, which became punishable with fines of between €1,500 ($1,757) and €3,750 (£4,392).
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They passed laws that made English the official language of Missouri, a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, and a measure that criminalized stem cell research.
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There have been only four prosecutions of slave-owners since Mauritania criminalized the practice in 2007 and dozens of cases are languishing in the courts.
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"If the DOJ (Department of Justice) is able to convict a publisher for its journalistic work, all free journalism can be criminalized," the letter read.
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Wade was decided on January 19763, 1973, abortion was criminalized in 44 states; nearly every state had to re-work its laws after the decision.
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The prison population and its racial disparities exploded as the Reagan administration criminalized drug users and deepened the relationship between the military and the police.
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Assertions like that are a small step from advocating that children be criminalized and placed on the sex offenders' registry for this kind of behavior.
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He was also part of a treatment process that criminalized him — in and out of treatment programs, finally receiving medication for his addiction but unsupervised.
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Because sex work and the activities that make it safer are generally criminalized, we often can't expect support from police if we're assaulted or raped.
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These elites have effectively criminalized the Afghan politics with many involved in illicit activities, including narcotics, smuggling, extortion, illegal mining, kidnapping, torture and arbitrary detention.
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Trinidad and Tobago - April 2018: The Caribbean state's high court overturned its law against "buggery", which criminalized sexual relations between consenting same-sex partners. 20123.
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Wade is overturned, one in three women of reproductive age — 25 million women — will be living in states where abortion is outlawed, banned and criminalized.
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Last week, a conservative group's petition to ban all sex outside marriage, which would have effectively criminalized homosexuality, was narrowly rejected by Indonesia's Constitutional Court.
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Those measures include a streamlining of the expungement process for people with criminal records and equity programs to help criminalized people get into legal weed.
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"Obscene acts" could be punished with a penalty of up to six months in prison -- meaning same-sex relationships could be targeted and effectively criminalized.
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Many trans women are involved in sex work, which means they're often criminalized and denied any kind of workplace protections, let alone basic health benefits.
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Without addressing the lives of still-criminalized LGBTQ people in this nation, candidates will fail to serve the community they say they seek to defend.
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CAIRO — Sudan's transitional government announced on Friday that it had overturned a moral policing law that criminalized revealing clothing worn by women and drinking alcohol.
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Despite being held at gunpoint moments earlier, I found myself being criminalized, again, in a moment when I should have been treated as a victim.
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Now advocates are challenging the criminalized framing, arguing that if the goal is to save lives from addiction and overdose, a more compassionate approach is necessary.
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Still, I cringed at her adoption of criminalized Black culture, and how that adoption was meme-ified, when on Black bodies it causes incarceration and death.
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A federal judge has blocked Alabama's ban on abortions, which would have stopped abortion at all stages of pregnancy and criminalized doctors who performed the procedure.
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The last 20 years has seen the introduction of stricter laws on abortion across Central America, and it was criminalized in the Dominican Republic in 1503.
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This was a book about men whose entire lives — whose whole network of relationships — had been criminalized, and she did not hesitate to criminalize her own.
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"This is how people — especially women of color — are already being punished & having their pregnancies criminalized," the National Abortion Federation said in a widely shared tweet.
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Not including NYC, the outlet writes that 38 other states have already criminalized revenge porn, which is important since it impacts an extraordinary number of people.
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Being arrested isn't rescue… being criminalized, being put in the legal system, being labeled a criminal or felon, that's not what somebody who's being trafficked needs.
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If they are deemed "valuable," mechanics strewn through countless games on every platform, might end up being criminalized or strictly regulated in the US and abroad.
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In addition, because of these circumstances, trans women of color are often forced into survival sex work, a highly dangerous and criminalized occupation for trans women.
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School districts have criminalized and dehumanized very vulnerable children for minor school infractions, such as talking back to the teacher or not wearing a school uniform.
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The legislation would have criminalized, for example, a person who forwarded to a friend the hacked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence after they'd been posted online.
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On Monday, Duterte's government released details of a law he has signed that would see groping, stalking, unwanted sexual advances and sexist or homophobic comments criminalized.
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"Have you ever heard of Skrillex being criminalized?" he asked me pointedly, referring to how white artists tend to face less scrutiny than their black counterparts.
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Even when a commercial sex patron or trafficker is correctly identified, they are rarely prosecuted as we would expect, while victims continue to be mistakenly criminalized.
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Most police, anti-trafficking groups and advocates for sex worker rights agree that victims of sex trafficking and other forms of violence never should be criminalized.
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"None of this should be interpreted that Heffter or psilocybin researchers believe that people should -- or should not -- be criminalized for possessing psilocybin mushrooms," he said.
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The government should apologize to him and all the other men (lesbianism was not criminalized) who were made to bear the stigma of the unjust laws.
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" In dissent, Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas said Arizona had "criminalized one of the most popular and effective methods by which minority voters cast their ballots.
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As a result, India has the peculiar distinction of being one of the only countries in the world to have decriminalized and then re-criminalized homosexuality.
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"I'm not going to leave because some creepy old man came and told me to wrap it up or I'm going to be criminalized," Reign said.
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Two weeks after that, Mr. West died and Mr. Peron had his cause: to change the laws that criminalized the possession of marijuana for medical use.
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Botswana: The country's high court overturned colonial-era laws that criminalized homosexuality, a decision hailed by activists as a significant step for gay rights in Africa.
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An 1860 colonial law that criminalized same-sex relations as unnatural remained in effect in independent India until 2009 when the Delhi High Court annulled it.
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Dowries and prenatal sex selection were criminalized to protect girls and women, following the official line that there should be no such thing as gender inequality.
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At the same time, it has worked to expand its internet propaganda operation, criminalized insulting the government online, and consulted with China about controlling the web.
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Although slavery was criminalized in 2007, Mauritanian human-rights advocates told me that the law was drafted to appease international organizations—that virtually nothing has changed.
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In 2013, a law criminalized giving minors materials promoting "nontraditional" sexual relationships — a statute that has been used to justify the arrests of gay rights activists.
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In Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, dissent has been criminalized, and anyone speaking up online for Qatar faces prosecution and up to 15 years in prison.
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"Transgender folks are criminalized in our society," said Mateo De La Torre, a racial and economic justice policy advocate at the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Trinidad and Tobago The Caribbean state's high court overturned its law against "buggery", which criminalized sexual relations between consenting same-sex partners, in April 2018. 4.
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"I could write a song about this and maybe I will but for now, I will use "CRIMINAL" to help the WRONGLY criminalized get justice," Apple said.
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The ACCC has been building a team of investigators since cartel conduct was criminalized in 2009, and was further empowered last year with new laws governing competition.
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Chhaupadi, which states that menstruating women must be kept separate to ward off bad luck, was banned by Nepal's Supreme Court in 2005 and criminalized in 2017.
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It's not that people who prey on trans women choose them because they are somehow intrinsically vulnerable; they have been made vulnerable because they have been criminalized.
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Should biohacking yourself be a human right or should your control over your own body be curtailed — possibly even criminalized — if it's risky to you or others?
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Same-sex relations are criminalized in 33 of 54 African countries, according to a 2017 report by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA).
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The law criminalized both giving and receiving dowry, and it recommended a minimum imprisonment of five years and a fine equal to the amount of the dowry.
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Even after homosexuality was legalized in 1967, arrests of gay men continued and the convictions — which saw the likes of Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing criminalized — remained.
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Earlier this year, the state legislature passed a bill that would have criminalized good-faith cybersecurity research and white hat hacking; the sitting governor vetoed the bill.
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As in other countries where abortion was criminalized, women in Uruguay had turned to the drug misoprostol (Cytotec), which was originally developed as an anti-ulcer therapy.
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Through the years, I've also watched end zone celebrations as innocent as pulling out a Sharpie, or doing the latest dance move become politicized, criminalized and fined.
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Her legal team argued that coercive control, which was criminalized four years after Challen's trial, had been poorly understood at the time and was not properly considered.
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"It appears a woman was criminalized simply for taking steps to redress the abuse she experienced," Amnesty International's Indonesia executive director Usman Hamid said in a statement.
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In the mid-19th century, more than 40 US cities criminalized crossdressing, and men in New York could technically be arrested for "impersonating a female" until 2011.
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"Charging her with manslaughter was a transparent effort calculated to circumvent the fact that the legislature has not criminalized words that encourage suicide," the defense brief reads.
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Taiwan in May became the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, and India last year struck down a colonial-era law that criminalized homosexuality.
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But the idea of using highly restrictive security measures is at odds with a strong belief by many experts that emotionally damaged children should not be criminalized.
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During the 1990s, dozens of cases against people who ran illegal needle exchange programs in states that criminalized syringe possession relied on a public health "necessity" defense.
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While "obstruction of justice" has become something of a buzzword in recent weeks, it is an offense with a precise legal definition, criminalized by several federal statutes.
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The country criminalized the ancient Muslim practice of instant divorce, in which men could end a marriage by saying the Arabic word for divorce — "talaq" — three times.
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"For too long, IL residents, particularly those that are black & brown, have been targeted and criminalized for #cannabis possession," Stratton wrote in a tweet following her visit.
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Dust Bowl migrants, for example, were so resented that legislators passed a 250 "anti-Okie" law a that criminalized the bringing of "any indigent person" into California.
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Ingabire has long said her sentence was a result of her work as a prominent government critic and that the charges effectively criminalized her freedom of expression.
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We are writing our own because the DC council might not know the intricacies, so we can better help people who used to be criminalized by marijuana.
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Sex work is still criminalized in Senegal for those who are unregistered, which effectively creates a two-tiered system in which "clandestine" prostitutes fall through the cracks.
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"There's a balance here as to what extent should something that happened to a bird be criminalized, versus how do we ensure that they're protected," he said.
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The provisions, approved by parliament in July 2016, criminalized groping and updated the definition of rape to include sexual contact with a person who has expressed refusal.
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Not a few people have been placed in dubious but costly treatment programs for actions that many believe should never have been criminalized in the first place.
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And as if these series of abuses aren't atrocious enough, women who do survive life-threatening abortions and miscarriages are increasingly being criminalized, from Guatemala to Indiana.
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Just blurring their faces would've criminalized them and made them into an "other," which would've prevented us from obtaining some grain of truth from this horrible situation.
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Because for as long as sex work is criminalized, most meaningful efforts to change things for the better technically have to be made outside of the law.
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Homosexuality is criminalized in more than half of all African countries — and in Sudan, as well as parts of Nigeria and Somalia, it is punishable by death.
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In India, where some kinds of sex work are criminalized, and those who do it often face discrimination and abuse, joy and humor can be deeply subversive things.
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Criminalized marijuana possession has long been used to incarcerate black men at disproportionate rates, even though use of the drug among black and white people is the same.
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If the Museum aims to engage multiple, differing views on the reality of law enforcement, why is the vantage point of those criminalized and victimized by police absent?
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Photo: GettyUp until this month, revenge porn wasn't criminalized in New York City, and there are still 11 states without laws criminalizing the unwanted distribution of private images.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) was criminalized in December, a month after Jammeh announced a ban on the practice in Gambia, where three in four women have been cut.
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Same-sex relations are criminalized in Iran, and LGBT activists in the country use Instagram to communicate with groups outside it, sometimes using pseudonyms to hide their identities.
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On the Survived and Punished website, which lists the organization's existing campaigns to free survivors who have been criminalized, most of the cases listed involve women of color.
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Reporting on criminalized survivors poses a lot of technical challenges, explained Law, but outlets have often failed to understand the dynamics of abuse or how to corroborate them.
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Section 377 of the Indian Penal code has criminalized homosexuality since British rule in 1860, banning sexual activities "against the order of nature" under threat of life imprisonment.
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Although the mainstream Mormon Church abandoned polygamy more than 100 years ago, many fundamentalist splinter groups still practice plural marriage across Utah, where it's illegal but not criminalized.
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And if criminalized, LGBTQ people face inequalities in the criminal justice system and once in prison are subject to an alarming high rate of abuse and sexual assault.
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As much as people have advocated for curbing the First Amendment following Charlottesville, Juggalos knew they were an example of what could happen when the government criminalized speech.
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"LA has been the most aggressive, criminalized place to own a business," Ariel Clark, a lawyer who spoke alongside Lencho on the night's first panel, told the audience.
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It just seems because of cannabis being criminalized, there's really no way to separate the development of and history of this plant from the criminal side of it.
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When governments require citizens to use public restrooms in accordance with the sex marked on their birth certificates, transgender people become criminalized for accessing a fundamental public accommodation.
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With the 2006 Prohibition of Child Marriage Prevention Act, Indian lawmakers criminalized child marriage, imposing a jail sentence of up to two years or a fine for offenders.
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Botswana: The country's High Court voted to revoke colonial-era laws that criminalized homosexuality, a move that activists hailed as a significant step for gay rights in Africa.
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The government is also considering easing laws on abortion, which is criminalized in New Zealand but is generally allowed if a woman has the approval of two doctors.
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The DOJ confirmed that Nagarwala is the first person to be charged under 227 U.S.C. 116, a federal law that criminalized female genital mutilation, or FGM, in 2012.
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The DOJ confirmed that Nagarwala is the first person to be charged under 18 U.S.C. 23, a federal law that criminalized female genital mutilation, or FGM, in 2012.
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I thought of the many instances where consensual sex is criminalized, while ministers extol masculinity by offering to kidnap any woman who may turn down a man's proposal.
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The TV ad from NARAL Pro-Choice America warns that criminalized abortion and women living in fear of punishment "could be our future" unless Heller stops Kavanaugh's confirmation.
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More than 4,000 cases are awaiting trial under a 2012 law that criminalized trafficking, according to police records, and only about 30 people have been convicted so far.
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Conservative and liberal justices alike expressed concern that the decades-old law may be too broad, repeatedly pressing the administration about what kind of speech could be criminalized.
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These new, criminalized arrivals began to wreak havoc on the streets of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — countries that were still reeling from years of conflict and destabilization.
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Just as these Olympians were shunned and subjected to death threats for their bold stance against injustice, today's NFL athlete-activists are criminalized, labeled ungrateful and un-American.
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She is here with Catherine Flowers, an activist who has worked with Congress on the pernicious tangle of issues facing Lowndes County: criminalized poverty, environmental degradation, inadequate infrastructure.
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In fact, it happens so often that an increasing number of states have begun to pass vacatur statutes, to expunge convictions after the criminalized victims are correctly identified.
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Mr. al-Bashir's Islamist government passed the Shariah-inspired Public Order Act in 1992, which criminalized a wide range of individual behavior, including revealing clothing and drinking alcohol.
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Since their work is criminalized, sex workers are vulnerable to sexual assault and violence, which bars them from law enforcement protection or legal recourse in cases of discrimination.
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This week Nepal criminalized Chhaupadi, an ancient Hindu tradition in which women are exiled to huts when they're on their period to keep the "impurity" out of the house.
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The bicycles became an unexpected symbol of police tension in Menlo Park and East Palo Alto, where people of color feel criminalized under the shadow of immense technology wealth.
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And Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates' president and CEO, Staci Fox, pointed out that the bill's implications — like whether women will be criminalized for seeking abortions — are not yet known.
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Angad, who declined to share his last name for fear of repercussions about his sexuality in a country where homosexuality is criminalized, was not surprised by the doctor's response.
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Azerbaijan criminalized defamation over the internet three years ago, meaning many people now use aliases and covert accounts, but the existing law made no separate mention of the president.
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This was especially true for women living in states where abortion was criminalized and where, up until a US Supreme Court ruling in 1965, even birth control was illegal.
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"The outcome of this case is important with new marijuana legalization—hopefully with marijuana use no longer criminalized, more research into the cardiovascular side effects will emerge," they wrote.
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If you look around your school, your neighborhood, and your community, you will find disabled children being criminalized for their inability to follow the often arbitrary "norms" of society.
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In countries where abortion has been criminalized, women who have miscarried have been sentenced to decades in prison and doctors have been fined for providing information about abortions online.
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"Women and girls continue to face being criminalized in what should be solely a healthcare matter," Chief Commissioner Les Allamby told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an emailed statement.
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Prodigy's 1994 "Music for the Jilted Generation" was seen as a response the corruption of rave culture and the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which criminalized raves.
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If abortion is ever criminalized in this nation, I think only the abortionist (and not the mother) should face murder charges for poisoning, crushing, or dismembering a living child.
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While researchers studied health impacts of psychedelic drugs in the 1950s and '60s, much of their work was halted after the substances became criminalized in the '70s and '80s.
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Ironically, while calls to criminalize are predicated on the idea that prostitution is harmful, what I'm seeing is that the more criminalized it gets, the more harmful it becomes.
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And if that happened — whether abortion were outlawed or more heavily criminalized in America — there's no denying that women would indeed face criminal punishment, regardless of what lawmakers intended.
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Niamh Eastwood: Covert surveillance is an unfortunate addition to fabric as it risks (predominantly young) people being criminalized for the non-violent act of drug possession and/or use.
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Loosening gun laws, it turned out, was much easier than fixing the fundamentals of a broken economy or remaking the racial politics that criminalized boys and men of color.
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Kenya last year passed a domestic violence law, which had been pending since 2002, which criminalized a range of offences from verbal abuse and intimidation to assault and rape.
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I have argued that Barraza has not [only] been made responsible for her crimes but has been criminalized for how she looks: She transgresses the normative standards for women.
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When the Constitutional Court struck down Fidesz laws that, among other things, criminalized homelessness, Parliament amended the Constitution to include most of the laws that the court had rejected.
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Background: The Georgia bill essentially acted as an abortion ban, as it allowed the procedure to be criminalized at a point when many women are unaware they are pregnant.
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Two weeks after Trump revealed his pageant was headed to Moscow, Putin signed a harsh new law that banned pro-gay "propaganda" and criminalized public expressions of gay pride.
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"This report illustrates how the Syrian government has effectively criminalized the provision of nondiscriminatory care to all, regardless of political affiliation," Physicians for Human Rights said in the study.
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As a human trafficking expert witness, I am called to testify for the prosecution of human traffickers, as well as for the defense in cases of erroneously criminalized victims.
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Being gay in Kenya Kenya is a deeply conservative country where homosexuality is criminalized in the country's penal code and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
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O'Rourke said that as a congressman he helped introduce a bill that would ensure that those who are seeking asylum and refuge in the United States are not criminalized.
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On the issue of whether kratom should be criminalized, viewed one way opioid pharmaceutical makers approximate the Bootlegger part of the equation, without implying any nefarious intent or negligence.
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In a momentous case that prompted celebration among gay people and civil rights activists around the continent of Africa, Botswana's High Court overturned laws on Tuesday that criminalized homosexuality.
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But now you could be criminalized for trying to exercise your basic right to vote under the circumstances that this is the only way you can do it. Right.
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On Thursday, the court struck down a colonial-era law that criminalized adultery, a day after clipping the wings of a national biometric identity card program because of privacy concerns.
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They vilified and criminalized black people, railed against civil rights and so-called race mixing, and stood in front of the schoolhouse door with dramatic effect to preserve Jim Crow.
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"I do my work with criminalized and incarcerated LGBTQ people because the white supremacist criminal legal system constantly attacks our family, particularly people of color and poor people," Lydon says.
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Castro said O'Rourke should join him in support of repealing a federal statute that he said has criminalized border crossings to incarcerate immigrants and controversially separate children from their parents.
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Paraguay only specifically criminalized violence against women, as well as femicide, earlier this year, after vocal calls from South American women, echoing the #MeToo movement with #YoTeCreo (I believe you).
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The plan offered benefits and services to prod school districts to help underserved children, but critics say the policy criminalized poverty without considering the social factors that contribute to it.
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Details: Cooper vetoed SB 359, known as the "born alive bill," which would have criminalized doctors and nurses who failed to care for an infant delivered during an unsuccessful abortion.
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Probable future president Hillary Clinton co-introduced the "Flag Protection Act of 2005," which would have criminalized flag burning, and the police response to protesters has militarized across the country.
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However, given that upwards of 50 percent of teenagers engage in the criminalized behavior, the new legislation seems designed to turn the majority of them into felons and sex offenders.
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I think that decriminalization is the way to go because as long as what's happening is happening between two consenting adults, there's no reason anyone should be criminalized for it.
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Nigeria criminalized same-sex relationships in 2014, making them punishable by up to 14 years in prison in a country where anti-gay sentiment and persecution of homosexuals is rife.
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This has helped address such issues as domestic violence and bride kidnapping which persist despite being criminalized in 2013 and tougher sentences of up to 10 years in jail introduced.
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This is one of the deepest accounts I have read in poetry of what it feels like to have one's body fetishized as an object but criminalized as a force.
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The ban, which was struck down by U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson in October, criminalized an abortion method that is the most common way of ending pregnancies after 15 weeks.
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The law criminalized a large number of online activities including hacking, cyber-bullying and child grooming but it also made false adverts, online defamation and the publication of pornography illegal.
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A bill would have criminalized the possession of high heels, punishable by up to $500 for a first offense and up to $1,000 for subsequent offenses, along with possible imprisonment.
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In doing so, white characters such as lawyers, officers, and people in power are portrayed as respectable, while Nasir becomes yet another person of color criminalized by the justice system.
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"Because psilocybin has such tremendous medical potential, there's no reason individuals should be criminalized for using something that grows naturally," said Kevin Matthews, the director of the pro-mushrooms campaign.
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"Because psilocybin has such tremendous medical potential, there's no reason individuals should be criminalized for using something that grows naturally," said Kevin Matthews, the director of the "Decriminalize Denver" campaign.
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He voted against legislation in 2005 that would have, among other provisions strengthening immigration enforcement, criminalized all violations of federal immigration law, including being present in the US without authorization.
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A settlement must reimburse states for costs of addiction treatment, social services, and legal-aid costs for criminalized drug use, as well as require consumer and provider warnings about addiction.
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Hemp cultivation had been stymied since 20203, when a law designed to thwart it levied harsh taxes on its trade; it was then officially criminalized by a 22020 federal law.
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That was the moment when it became clear that the political opinions against sea rescue had changed, and that we were going to be criminalized for what we were doing.
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To the Editor: Stillbirth was criminalized in early 17th-century England when the authorities needed a way to convict prostitutes who had babies in secret that they claimed were stillborn.
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"Season's Greetings," says the second issue of Micor-Gram, published in December 1967 and leading with the news of the latest psychedelics to be criminalized: bufotenine, diethyltyptamine (DET), and ibogaine.
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"This is how people — especially women of color — are already being punished & having their pregnancies criminalized," the National Abortion Federation, a professional association of abortion providers, said in a statement.
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On Tuesday, the Dutch upper house of Parliament officially criminalized the act of wearing the burqa — which covers the entire face and body — and the niqab — which covers the face.
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It's also criminalized under section 377 of the Penal Code, which is a law that's rarely used, although its very existence illustrates how the LGBTQ community continues to be marginalized.
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The legal grey area of unofficial remixes and DJ sets are what made SoundCloud indispensable, but are also what got criminalized and sometimes booted off the platform after its label deals.
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It criminalized defamation on the Internet three years ago, meaning many people now use aliases and covert accounts, but there was no separate mention of the president in the earlier law.
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The bill, if passed, would have criminalized the non-consensual distribution of intimate photos in the state, which is one of the last remaining holdout states to make revenge porn illegal.
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And, again, people who don&apost think that political differences should be criminalized or subject to surveillance really want to make sure that this is something that the FBI handles properly.
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It shows, on the one hand, the way that trans women of color have long been shut out of white gay spaces — and criminalized — for reasons of race, gender, and class.
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"Eighty percent of black women who are criminalized, profiled, targeted, and put in a cage are single mothers and/or caretakers," Hooks underscored when I later interviewed her about the initiative.
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A 2017 report from the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association found that 124 countries had no legal penalties for homosexuality, compared with 72 countries where it was criminalized.
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Image: GettyJust in time for everyone to freak out about Lin-Manuel Miranda leaving "Hamilton," New York has criminalized ticket bots to make it a little easier to get tickets. Maybe.
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When it was announced, critics predicted that the bill would have criminalized all undocumented immigrants, kept families apart, eliminated protection for Dreamers, and end protections for asylum-seekers including vulnerable children.
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Israel and Poland have clashed on this semantic issue before, holding secret backchannel talks last year over a controversial Polish law that criminalized attributing crimes committed during the Holocaust to Poland.
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LGBTQ people and people of color have literally given their lives to improve countries that have criminalized their mere existence; honoring them on currency is the least that can be done.
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An 1881 French law against defamation and insults was reinforced in 1972 by an anti-racism law (known as "Pleven Law"), which criminalized racist insults and the incitement of racial hatred.
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Jogee's lawyers said the joint enterprise law, as applied before Thursday's ruling, had "over-criminalized" secondary parties and they were glad to have played a part in correcting "this unjust law".
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He argued that those killed at the border had inflicted danger upon themselves and is widely quoted as saying that the trial "discriminated against and criminalized people with different political beliefs".
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The move comes as Bahrain criminalized any show of support on social media in a bid to further isolate Qatar, which has been accused of supporting terrorism and destabilizing the region.
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When Bill C-36—a law that criminalized the purchasing rather than the sale of sex—came into effect in Canada in 2014, ripples were felt throughout the sex work industry.
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My mom, however, still cleans houses; my mom is still undocumented; and my mom is still criminalized by an administration that continues to deport the most vulnerable members of our community.
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Over the last year, sweeping legislative changes have made it virtually impossible for migrants to achieve refugee status in the country, weakened asylum safeguards and unjustifiably criminalized immigrants and asylum seekers.
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I mean, who wants to be visible when so many still think of depression/bipolar as character flaws and when illnesses like schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder are so pathologized, even criminalized?
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In 2010, the French government criminalized psychological violence in intimate relationships, with the punishable offense carrying a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a €45,000 fine (approximately US $51,345).
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There are far fewer people arrested on charges of begging for a MetroCard swipe or sleeping in the subway — two categories of arrests that, critics have said, criminalized poverty and homelessness.
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It is revealing that in the United States, one very specific, additional form of sexual deception is aggressively criminalized and prosecuted: the failure to disclose one's HIV status to your partner.
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In 1985, it became a short-lived substitute for ecstasy in the US when MDMA was criminalized, and for a time was sold in Dutch smart shops under the name Nexus.
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Andrew MacLeod, a lawyer who co-founded the charity Hear Their Cries to fight sex abuse in the aid sector, said failure to prevent or report such exploitation should be criminalized.
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After the war, Michael unhappily marries a woman, Flora; Thomas begs him to imagine what their lives together could be like, but homosexuality was still criminalized in England at the time.
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Mr. Clayton of the American Bail Coalition said bond agents objected because the department had over-criminalized the insurance code, pursuing violations as felony cases rather than focusing on revoking licenses.
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A bill considered by members of the Texas House of Representatives this week would have criminalized abortions and opened up the possibility for women and physicians to receive the death penalty.
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In recent months, she said, the Hungarian government had stepped up attacks on academic freedom, criminalized humanitarian aid for refugees and migrants, and continued to undermine the independence of the judiciary.
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Patricia Herring, like many advocates, wants opioid addiction to be treated as a disease, not criminalized, and for more treatment to be made available in the community as well in jails.
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North Carolina Republicans acted similarly in the wake of Charleston's Emanuel AME massacre, rushing to pass a bill that bottlenecked the removal process for Confederate statues and effectively criminalized their detractors.
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"Many sex workers are also parents and yet face substantial barriers to accessing health and parenting supports due to the criminalized and stigmatized nature of sex work," Goldenberg said by email.
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Strippers have long occupied an odd position in sex worker activism, which has traditionally focused on criminalized sex workers who are most vulnerable to being arrested on prostitution or related charges.
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When it was announced, critics predicted that the bill would have criminalized all undocumented immigrants, kept families apart, eliminated protection for Dreamers, and end protections for asylum-seekers including vulnerable children.
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Homosexuality has been criminalized for most of the last century there, and head of state Ramzan Kadyrov has imposed harsh Islamic religious law, endorsing family "honor killings" of women, for example.
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Reproductive rights advocates say Jones's treatment shows that women are still being punished and criminalized for things they shouldn't be, and that the system is failing them in too many ways.
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Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein wrote an essay after British lawmakers blocked a proposed Alan Turing law, which would have posthumously pardoned 49,20163 people who were criminalized for being gay, like Turing.
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The roots of cash bail in this country wind back to a set of laws created after the Civil War that criminalized black Americans and led to generations of plunder and servitude.
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It says a lot about our society that people on the front lines of negotiating sexual boundaries are criminalized, stigmatized, and shamed, with their work seen as dirty, delinquent, and inherently wrong.
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While several companies including Hindustan Unilever, Infosys and Godrej told Reuters they welcomed the lifting of Section 377 that criminalized gay sex, others said they had no plans for better workplace rights.
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The presidential hopeful said in a clip posted by the podcast "Pod Save America" that it was "never the intention" that parents of children who missed too much school would be criminalized.
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Those courts made their first convictions in May -- marking only the second time that a slave owner had been convicted in Mauritania since the practice of owning slaves was criminalized in 2007.
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Singapore joins dozens of other cities around the world in celebrating gay pride this weekend but it is the only one where gay sex is criminalized, although the law is not enforced.
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That may be partially due to policing trends: The UK only officially criminalized intentional sexual communication with a minor in April of 2017, right around when the data for this report begins.
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"I was defamed, criminalized and isolated," he told Reuters, adding that the prosecutors were trying to set an example of what could happen to people who speak out and to their families.
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"You extend the criminalized area, and in doing so, people easily get the idea that we will receive more convictions and we firmly believe that will not be the case," she added.
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Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson put as many as 600 additional police officers on Chicago streets recently and criminalized "unsanctioned street parties," in an effort to somehow make everyone feel safe again.
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In the UK, homosexuality was criminalized until 1967, when the Sexual Offences Act legalized private "homosexual acts" between consenting adults over the age of 20153 (although not in Scotland or Northern Ireland).
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If people engaged in a boycott can be silenced, even criminalized, for discriminating against the group they accuse of discrimination, we begin to see how problematic it is to punish "hate" speech.
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The cop, Eric Casebolt, not only used excessive force, his actions highlighted the denial of innocence to black children, who are criminalized early and often because of the color of their skin.
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The West African nation criminalized slavery in 2007 and a new law passed last year makes the offence a crime against humanity and doubles the prison term for offenders to 20 years.
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Rewati Raman Bhandari, a former lawmaker who drafted the measure that criminalized chhaupadi, said the push to eradicate the practice — from villagers, the police and local politicians — was still far too muted.
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CAPE TOWN — Botswana's High Court ruled on Tuesday to overturn colonial-era laws that criminalized homosexuality, a decision hailed by activists as a significant step for gay rights on the African continent.
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When you talk about gay men being vulnerable, is it that because many would be afraid of going to the police after a robbery or assault because they themselves would be criminalized?
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Instead, they argued before the court, the charge, which carries no formal definition in the Criminal Code, was linked to 'buggery' — a similar charge also criminalized homosexual acts — and therefore required penetration.
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"When prostitutes' activities are criminalized they cannot report violence committed against them without incriminating themselves" says Gillian Abel, associate professor of public health at the University of Otago, in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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But in addition to scams like "buy here pay here" deals and subprime auto financing, used car buyers like Markeisha Fowlkes must contend with the risk of being criminalized for a legal purchase.
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While previous legislation already criminalized same-sex conduct, the 2014 law officially authorizes abuses against LGBT people, effectively making a bad situation worse, a report by Human Rights Watch said in October 2016.
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Several attempts to pass sweeping ag-gag bans in Indiana have failed, including one in 2013 that would have criminalized filming of farms or other businesses without the permission of the property owner.
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Tuesday's statement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing government also said that the country should not blindly follow Western countries that have criminalized marital rape, as illiteracy and diversity make India unique.
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Access to housing is further limited by the transgender population's increased risk of hiring discrimination, losing a job due to their gender identity, or having to turn to criminalized work, like sex work.
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Over Twitter, Trump described the payments as legal, "private transactions" that are being criminalized by his adversaries and leveraged by Cohen, who is cooperating with prosecutors in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Constitutional Court on Friday ordered a review of the conviction of prominent anti-Kremlin activist Ildar Dadin and said a law that criminalized protests had to be applied more proportionately.
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In Colorado, two voters filed a federal lawsuit on Monday seeking to overturn a state law there that criminalized the showing of a completed ballot to others, arguing that the ban was unconstitutional.
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The measure removes criminal penalties associated with adults selling and buying sex, and repeals parts of the law that have criminalized sex workers' places of business along with "loitering for prostitution" in public.
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Amnesty International says Taheri is a prisoner of conscience and has condemned Iran's use of capital punishment "for vaguely worded or overly broad offences, or acts that should not be criminalized at all".
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The Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem told CNN that although attempted suicide is criminalized in the country, the state does not recommend that anyone should be locked up.
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Increasingly criminalized and vilified, illegal graffiti became more gritty and less colorful, as writers faced grater risks attempting the kinds of elaborate pieces that defined the best of 70s and 80s subway graffiti.
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In 19 he became the first person in France to be convicted under a law that criminalized the denial of crimes against humanity as they were defined in 1946 by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
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Change is slowly underway; abortion was fully outlawed and criminalized until only last year; civil union between same-sex couples was legalized in 2015; and the gay marriage bill is still in Congress.
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Despite Mr. Moore's strenuous appeals to evangelical Christians, Mr. Moffett said that he found the candidate's attacks on his female accusers, and his past suggestion that homosexuality should be criminalized, to be disqualifying.
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And if you are a part of a population that is very criminalized and demonized on a moral level, that battle to be vindicated of a harsh crime is just that much harder.
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The United States outlawed the practice itself as early as 1917 with the Espionage Act, which succeeded the earlier Defense Secrets Act of 1911, a law that criminalized the disclosure of government secrets.
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Wade was decided in January 1973, our nation is still caught in a dichotomy between the world that's possible and one where reproductive health care is attacked, stigmatized and, in some cases, criminalized.
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The big picture: The "Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act," or "PACT," builds on a law that previously only criminalized animal cruelty if those at fault made and sold videos of the act.
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A federal judge struck down the harshest provisions (specifically, part of the bill that criminalized driving with undocumented people as "harboring illegal immigrants") in 2013, after immigrant rights groups argued they were unconstitutional.
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Critics have also argued that sex workers just trying to make a living could be further criminalized and forced out into the streets where violence, drugs, and health risks are more of a problem.
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" O'Rourke responded that he'd introduced legislation in Congress to ensure asylum seekers are not criminalized, arguing that Castro is looking to address one part of the problem while he was seeking a "comprehensive rewrite.
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"It's a myth that the only group being criminalized are those committing crimes," said Heather Ann Thompson, a University of Michigan historian who writes on the history and present day implications of mass incarceration.
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For example, their push for the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA), which would have criminalized the posting of unlicensed content online, ended with Congress pulling the bill after Internet users flooded Congress with concerns.
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Supporters of Sally Challen, 65, including her two sons, hailed the decision to order a retrial as a landmark for victims of coercive control, criminalized in 2015, which involves extreme emotional and psychological abuse.
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Critics of the move said setting up rocks and ticketing those who did not take down tents quickly enough each morning effectively criminalized homelessness, and made violence targeting people on the street more likely.
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This city has had its share of troubles — water shortages, ethnic strife, gang wars, criminalized local politics — but for more than 12 centuries Ghazi has protected it from the fury of the Arabian Sea.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany plans to annul the historic convictions of tens of thousands of men charged under a law that criminalized homosexuality and to grant them financial compensation, the justice minister said on Wednesday.
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Some might argue that you're putting women—who may even be engaging in sex work voluntarily, and who are already unduly criminalized—in even more danger by sending them through an unfriendly court system.
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Before long, New York had passed the punitive Rockefeller Drug Laws—which criminalized even the smallest possessions of illegal drugs, including marijuana—and sent scores of low-level users to prison for extended sentences.
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They would have wiped the records clean of all people who have been unjustly criminalized for a plant that we are all pretty much in agreement was wrong to prohibit in the first place.
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These fans, called Juggalos, are coming from all over the United States to stand up for their right to listen to their favorite music without being criminalized by the FBI or local law enforcement.
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Four out of the 11 judges on the Supreme Federal Tribunal already ruled in February that anti-LGBT+ acts should be criminalized but the remaining votes were postponed because proceedings lasted longer than expected.
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With Islam a fundamental part of the Uyghur identity, so-called counter-terrorism campaigns which have cracked down hard on Muslim practices and increasingly criminalized Islam, are tantamount to the criminalization of being Uyghur.
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"By detaining him and taking him to court, they criminalized his action, putting him in the cross hairs, and legitimized the space needed for the crazies to respond," wrote Naseem Tarawnah, a Jordanian blogger.
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With their multicultural lifestyle and their perfectly synchronized skin color, the two of them represent the ideal outcome of generations of progressive activism, a repudiation of America's history of slavery, segregation and criminalized miscegenation.
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Corruption is a trap that makes it hard for criminalized civil servants to have a normal life outside the regime, because they will always run the risk of ending up in jail or dead.
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I can't remember reading anything recently that has seized me like this or taken me into the heart of the barbaric treatment of those criminalized and brutalized in their search for safety and care.
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The LGBT community and communities of color are already devastated by criminalization, and we do not want to add any more people to the list of groups who are being overly policed, overly criminalized.
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Though in recent years more gay Indians have come out, and acceptance of gay, lesbian and transgender people has grown to some degree, the fact that intimate behavior was still criminalized created much shame.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Sweeping legislation that would have criminalized sex between unmarried people, including gays and lesbians, was pushed back on Friday by Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, days before it had been expected to pass.
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And those who have spoken out against the indiscriminate killing of thousands of Kurdish people by the Turkish Army since the breakdown of the peace process in 2015 have been criminalized in multiple ways.
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In a sign of how quickly the landscape has changed, when New York's bill was first introduced five years ago, it was a trailblazer; only a handful of other states had criminalized revenge porn.
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Together, the policies represent a foundational understanding of trans people, a baseline education that would be necessary to inform law enforcement's engagement with one of the nation's most marginalized and highly criminalized social groups.
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Among the restrictions introduced this year was a bill in Texas that appeared to have stalled this week and would have criminalized abortions outright, potentially allowing women and physicians to receive the death penalty.
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"For 100-plus years as a society, we've punished and criminalized people who use drugs," said Sarah Wakeman, an addiction medicine doctor and medical director at the Massachusetts General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Initiative.
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According to Lynn Paltrow, executive director for the National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW), drug-using pregnant women can be criminalized just about anywhere in the country, if local prosecuting attorneys twist up the laws.
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Thirty-eight states and D.C. have laws against revenge porn, but up until today—counting statewide and city laws, New York was one of 12 hold-out states where it had yet to be criminalized.
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India criminalized child marriage, women in Saudi Arabia won the legal right to drive, and Suriname's "nationality law" was overturned, allowing women to pass citizenship to their children without marrying someone from the same country.
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Sudhanshu Saria: I was trying to write something a lot more traditional when the Supreme Court in India made the decision [in 2013] to reinstate Section 377, that very archaic British law which criminalized homosexuality.
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America's ability to pull levers in Saudi Arabia, which has criminalized financial support for extremist groups while continuing to export a profoundly conservative version of Islam, has diminished as has its relationship with the kingdom.
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Marital rape in the U.S. was first criminalized in the 1970s, and since 1993, it has been illegal in all 50 states, but there have been alarming exemptions made in some individual states since then.
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Wade were overturned or further eroded, Planned Parenthood assesses that 25 million women -- 1 in 3 women of reproductive age in this country -- would be living in states where abortion is outlawed or even criminalized.
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"Black people, unfortunately, continue to be criminalized for our moments of courage, for our moments of mourning and grieving," Black Lives Matter Network co-founder Patrisse Cullors said during a Huffington Post event last month.
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We would love your monetary donations, but a monetary donation that gets one person out of jail when millions are being criminalized over and over is really not the most effective way to make change.
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In a country that has criminalized immigration with increasing severity since 1996—and has been ramping up its militarization of that fight under Donald Trump—a U Visa can seem like the least bad option.
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"For the first time the whole reporting process and everybody involved in it, from research to publication, is potentially criminalized," said Gaven Morris, news director for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the country's largest public broadcaster.
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Hashtags calling for an end to state censorship garnered millions of views before they were themselves censored, campaigners and doctors criticizing the response were muzzled, news laws criminalized online criticism, and foreign journalists were expelled.
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Shortly before campaigning began, Mr. Najib's party pushed through a so-called fake news law that was the first in the world to use Mr. Trump's rejoinder as it criminalized publishing or circulating misleading information.
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It became concerning to learn that the artist relied so heavily on the New York Times article, which obscures the criminalized and vulnerable conditions of migrant care laborers to tell a sensationalist sex worker story.
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"The law was supposed to prevent online sex trafficking, but instead criminalized online sex work and suppressed free speech," Khanna tweeted, saying his proposal would commission a National Institutes of Health study on its effects.
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As The Washington Post reported in June, "The Trump administration has ramped up arrests of illegal immigrants, slashed refugee programs, criminalized unauthorized border crossings" and secured a ban on travelers from six majority-Muslim nations.
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At first the officers seemed confused about how to treat us, but as the evening progressed I felt like we were increasingly being criminalized as they scrambled to receive direction from higher-ups in Washington.
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There are also plenty of accounts of American merchants making money in the opium trade to China, which had criminalized the trade of opium, even though other countries thought it was a legitimate business practice.
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"Black people, unfortunately, continue to be criminalized for our moments of courage, for our moments of mourning and grieving," Black Lives Matter Network co-founder Patrisse Cullors said during a Huffington Post event in February.
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"We need support to end the death of people at sea and it's outrageous that civilians ... filling a gap left by the authorities are criminalized for saving lives," said Giorgia Lunardi, a spokeswoman for the charity.
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And though some states have over the years criminalized the wearing of masks used to evade or escape discovery of one's identity when gathered in groups or committing a crime, some have curiously chosen not to.
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In the same way, politics has been driven into poisonous partisan and paralyzing corners, where political differences are criminalized, where the zero sum game means in order for me to win, you have to be destroyed.
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Because she returned to the Islamic Republic of Iran, to visit her parents, and to allow them to see their granddaughter, while I live in an open society, where such philanthropic work is celebrated, not criminalized.
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In many ways, the Farmington video highlights civil rights groups' biggest concerns about the ways students from marginalized communities, particularly black and brown students, are often criminalized and exposed to harsh policing in their own schools.
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It is a blow for human rights in Kenya and sends a dangerous signal to the rest of the Commonwealth, where many citizens continue to be criminalized simply because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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"In Ireland, the situation is that sex workers are criminalized under what's called brothel keeping laws, which means that in order to work legally, sex workers must work alone," a Safe IQ representative told Android Authority.
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Bill C-13, which came into effect in 2014, effectively criminalized revenge porn, but drew criticism from even the staunchest anti-revenge porn advocates because it folded in all sorts of snooping provisions for federal agencies.
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The LGBT community is routinely persecuted in Malaysia, where gay sex is criminalized - punishable by up to 20 years in prison, caning, or a fine - and the government sanctions campaigns seeking to curb homosexuality and transgenderism.
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It criminalized black people as a whole, a process that, in addition to destroying untold lives, effectively transferred the guilt for slavery from the people who perpetuated it to the very people who suffered through it.
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They are state-owned airlines headquartered in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, countries that lack any protection for the LGBT community, where intimate relationships are criminalized, and where abuses against the community are well documented.
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As a person with a sense of justice, I want to see a recreational or medicinal system that acknowledges the efforts made in cannabis by the people who have been criminalized by their association with cannabis.
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Previous reporting by Broadly found that many Black trans women in Philadelphia living in poverty are forced into criminalized economies such as survival sex work, and they report a severe lack of trust in the police.
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" The "other side" would like to see laws like those in Sweden and Norway, but as Smith points out, "People who sell sex there are still criminalized for working together and migrant sex workers are deported.
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Throssell said the Ankara government seemed to have criminalized the legitimate exercise of rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression under the state of emergency imposed after an attempted coup in July 2016.
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This has been the case since at least the passing of the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986, which increased border patrols and criminalized and sanctioned employers who hire undocumented workers, including those from Mexico.
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Hong Kongers must wonder: If Uighur culture is criminalized and Xinjiang's supposed autonomy is a sham, what will happen to their own vibrant Cantonese culture and their city's shaky "one country, two systems" arrangement with Beijing?
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It leads some politicians down the wrong path by thinking that images must pass a threshold of obscenity before being unlawful, or that the perpetrator must be acting for purposes of sexual gratification to be criminalized.
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Perhaps the most drastic turn has happened among cannabis start-ups, which rode a wave of exuberance in recent years as countries like Canada and Uruguay and several U.S. states loosened laws that criminalized the drug.
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Biss said just as important are legislative proposals to bar the state police from being used to enforce Trump's order concerning undocumented immigrants, and ensuring abortion is protected and women are not criminalized if Roe v.
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After the video made waves online, the Idaho Dairymen's Association helped to draft an "ag-gag" bill that criminalized undercover investigations of the kind conducted by Mercy For Animals, which the governor signed into law in 2014.
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In a statement posted to Twitter reacting to Jones' arrest, the National Abortion Foundation, a professional association of abortion providers, said, "This is how people — especially women of color — are already being punished & having their pregnancies criminalized."
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With their campaign underway and their 217th anniversary coming up (the organization was founded in 22016—the year after MDMA was criminalized in the US), THUMP spoke to MAPS' communications director Brad Burge about their latest initiative.
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In August 2015, UK regulatory authorities took down Dreams of Spanking under widely condemned legislation that criminalized the depiction of a host of acts in porn—such as spanking that leaves marks, face-sitting, or female ejaculation.
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Sen. Kamala Harris expressed regret that some California district attorneys "criminalized" the parents of children who had too many consecutive, unexcused school absences, under a controversial 2011 law she helped move forward as the state's top prosecutor.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - African governments should recognize customary rights to water for millions of small farmers who have been sidelined or "criminalized" by permit systems created during the colonial era, said a report published on Monday.
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The former Southern Baptist pastor who supported legislation in Texas that would have criminalized abortions has been arrested on charges of child sex abuse, accused of repeatedly molesting a teenage relative over the course of two years.
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As for the state, for a generation now the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of gay and lesbian people, overturning laws that criminalized our lives or relegated our love and families to second-class status. .
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Black bodies, for example, are already always criminalized by our system, so the idea that the speech of Black Lives Matter is being defended through the representation of someone like Milo is a farce in my view.
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It feels as though every few months another story comes out about a teen being criminalized for sexting their peer, or porn creating a dead-eyed swarm of adolescents who becoming numb to sexual intimacy and pleasure.
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"If you act covertly on behalf of a foreign actor, in a way that harms Australia's national security, to influence the political process, or a Government decision, that conduct will be criminalized," said Attorney-General George Brandis.
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Mr. Hattar's assassination may be the first time someone was killed for expressing an opinion in Jordan, but if speech continues to be criminalized and vilified the way it is today, it might not be the last.
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Reproductive rights advocates argued that Jones's story was a troubling example of the ways pregnant women of color are criminalized in states like Alabama, which has prosecuted hundreds of women for things like "chemical endangerment" while pregnant.
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Cataloging the challenges his staff has faced over the last two years, Mr. Gurung said there was no law in Nepal that criminalized torture, making prosecution tricky, and a short statute of limitations on reporting sexual violence.
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But when the court's founding document, known as the Rome Statute, went into force in 2002, language that would have criminalized large-scale environmental destruction had been stripped out at the insistence of major oil producing nations.
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Research by her organization has shown that sex workers face extortion and abuse by police, including forced sex, as well as abuse from health care workers and military forces in settings where the practice is fully criminalized.
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Julian Castro, a former U.S. housing secretary and the only Hispanic candidate in the field, supports repealing a federal statute that he said has criminalized border crossings to incarcerate immigrants and controversially separate children from their parents.
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Coming out almost exactly a year after FOSTA-SESTA, legislation that worked to erase sex workers from the internet, was signed into law, seeing a mainstream platform profit off of our criminalized labor rubs salt in the wound.
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In fact, politicians in our country have long criminalized black and brown people, employing "dog whistle" racism to drive wedges between our communities The GOP candidate continues to lavish praise on Eisenhower's deportation policies, but never by name.
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The last country to legally abolish slavery in 1981, Mauritania criminalized slavery in 2007 and a new law passed last year makes the offence a crime against humanity and doubles the prison term for offenders to 20 years.
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The "Junkie Whore" archetype is drawn from moments of despair and oppression in the criminalized lives of women like me, just trying to avoid arrest and assault and make enough to meet the high cost of prohibited drugs.
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The trend is part of a global backlash on civil society that has seen rights activists in some parts of the world criminalized or branded as troublemakers, Forst told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview in London.
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"When the Soviet Union ended, there was already a criminalized population [in Riga] made up of mostly Russians, and it helped make Riga into a nexus for criminal networks engaged in money laundering and human trafficking," she said.
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Walking the LGBT+ tightrope is a highwire act for many global brands who want to balance the needs of markets whose consumers demand open corporate solidarity with those where being gay, bi or trans is controversial or criminalized.
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NEW DELHI — India has criminalized a centuries-old practice in which Muslim men could instantly divorce their wives, a step that has polarized political parties over how deeply the government should become involved in marital and religious issues.
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"In a country where more and more things have been criminalized, there is a virtually limitless number of crimes that prosecutors can chose from if we allow pregnancy to become the subject of criminal justice and court systems."
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Despite promising research in the 1950s and 1960s on LSD at a psychedelic dose as a treatment for alcoholism and certain mood disorders, much of that research ground to a halt when the substance was criminalized in 1966.
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In this instance, no crime had been committed, but nonetheless, I became criminalized in the process of them searching for a crime — they looked for a crime and saw a black man, and then just made the assumption.
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And Nevada's majority-female Assembly passed a bill Tuesday that would rewrite existing state laws to no longer require doctors to tell women about the "emotional implications" of an abortion and repeal some criminalized activities related to the procedure.
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You can watch the entire speech below: Jones moved on to criticize the senators who voted for last week's anti-abortion law in Alabama, which criminalized nearly all abortions in the state, even for victims of rape and incest.
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The marijuana business is one of the fastest growing money-making industries in today's economy, and individuals and communities disproportionately criminalized by the enforcement of marijuana laws should be first in line to benefit from today's legal marijuana industry.
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"Where some or all aspects of sex work were criminalized, concerns about their own or their clients' arrest meant that sex workers often had to rush screening clients," said Lucy Platt, the lead author of the university-led study.
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New Delhi (CNN)A Nepali mother and her two children were found dead Wednesday morning, after being exiled from their family home as part of a criminalized practice where women and girls are made to sleep alone when menstruating.
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This anti-Black aggression, coupled with structural barriers around becoming versed in middle class service luxuries, complicates the idea that everyone who does not tip enough is no more than a horrible person who should be shamed and criminalized.
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Chad Chad introduced a new penal code in 2017 with light prison sentences and fines for same-sex relations which had not been explicitly criminalized before, although there was a law condemning "acts against nature", according to the ILGA.
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The president, once again, has created his own reality, manufactured a crisis, invented an invasion, criminalized immigrants, made up facts and, in a nationally televised speech on Tuesday, argued for a new wall at the United States-Mexico border.
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Sex workers, though at greater risk for victimization due to the criminalized and stigmatized nature of their work—are, on an average day, no more or less harassed or put upon than any other woman living in this sexist world.
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While the works in Fencing in Democracy focus on the realities of the US-Mexico border wall, the art really speaks to any wall which people desperately cross in an attempt to find a better life, only to find themselves criminalized.
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After the reformist Abiy Ahmed became prime minister in April and began defusing long-standing tension with neighboring Eritrea, a six-month amnesty was introduced for those held under provisions of an anti-terrorism law that critics say has criminalized dissent.
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However, while protecting oneself while engaged in sports or driving isn't seen as unduly encouraging others to take foolish risks, doing the same or even providing information about how to do the same with drugs is dismissed and sometimes actually criminalized.
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Two men were last week handed five-year prison sentences - one year to be served, four years suspended - and ordered to pay compensation to two victims in only the country's second ever prosecution for slavery since it was criminalized in 2007.
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We're a response to the war on drugs in some ways, which "categorically" says that LSD, marijuana, MDMA, ayahuasca, ibogaine, DMT, all of these substances, belong in the same category, which is to say illegal, totally criminalized, stigmatized, and therefore dangerous.
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"Not every dumb idea should be criminalized," O'Donnell explains, noting that it would be difficult for prosecutors to bring charges of inciting a crowd or even disorderly conduct against West because it would be nearly impossible to prove his intentions.
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After colonialism, forest laws in many parts of the world as well as the emerging environmental movement borrowed the legal and ideological template of colonialism, explained Robbins, the University of Wisconsin-Madison ecologist, and criminalized poor people's use of trees.
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But she says the relationships Cabán has formed with community organizations can help the new DA transform Queens into a borough where sex workers are permitted to do their work without being criminalized, even in the face of other opposition.
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While Canadian sex workers were given fresh hope in 2013 after the Supreme Court ruled that its original legislation was unconstitutional and putting workers in danger, the government has since adopted the Swedish model and criminalized the buying of sex.
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The law also criminalized fetal tissue collection or transferring, a practice that is vital to life-saving fetal tissue donation and research (including for understanding the Zika virus), and required women to view the fetal ultrasound hours before receiving an abortion.
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"While people are rightfully celebrating, I implore us all to remember that LGBT people are still harshly criminalized in many parts of the world," said Darryl Philip, founder and head of Minority Rights Dominica, a local rights group, in a statement.
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The country's health minister, Ummy Mwalimu, reportedly told local media that "the government has banned the importation and use of the jelly to curb the spread of HIV," on the basis that lubricant encourages homosexuality, which is criminalized in Tanzania.
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" As white flight took effect, landlords hired arsonists to torch their buildings, knowing they could collect more for insurance than from rent checks, while Nixon's White House criminalized and disrupted the city under the guise of the "War on Drugs.
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"People think the Swedish state criminalized clients, and not us, because they cared about us, but that was not the case," says Pye Jakobsson, a Swedish sex worker who is the president of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that homophobia should be criminalized under existing legislation until Congress creates a specific law for the subject, weighing in on a topic that has drawn the ire of President Jair Bolsonaro.
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A kingdom where any act can be criminalized according to a judge's personal interpretation of Sharia law, where women are not allowed out without male guardians, where protest is banned, and where teenagers are executed, their decapitated bodies publicly displayed.
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In June, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt postponed the release of Ms. Wolf's "Outrages," which explores how 19th-century British courts criminalized same-sex relationships, and commissioned independent evaluations from several scholars after questions were raised about the accuracy of her research.
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But in recent years, archival research in Germany has shown that the Nazis were keenly focused on Jim Crow segregation laws, on statutes that criminalized interracial marriage and on other policies that created second-class citizenship in the United States.
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While sex with underage girls is criminalized in Tanzania, parents may marry off their daughters using a special privilege granted by a 1971 marriage law, which allows a girl as young as 15 to marry with parental or the court's consent.
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In August 2017, for the first time in history, the country criminalized the isolation of menstrual women with a three-month jail sentence or a 3,000 rupee fine ($30), or both, for anyone who forces a woman to follow the custom.
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Bob Nonini said at a candidate forum in Moscow, Idaho, on Monday that he believed the women should face penalties if abortions are criminalized in the state, and nodded when asked if he backed the death penalty as a possible penalty.
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The justices left in place a lower court ruling that struck down the 2016 law, which would have criminalized a method called dilation and evacuation that is the most common type of abortion performed during the second trimester of a pregnancy.
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The Texas Democrat spoke Spanish once again when answering a question about immigration, which led to a heated back-and-forth with former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro on whether or not crossing the border illegally should be criminalized.
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I was amazed by how they celebrate such a rich, diverse sexuality, considering they were built over 1,000 years ago — which is especially ironic when you realize that homosexuality has been re-criminalized in India and moral policing is on the rise.
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"People of color have been criminalized for cannabis for generations, and now we're being locked out of a billion-dollar business," Shanel Lindsay, a lawyer and owner of Boston–based biotech business Ardent, who sits on the Massachusetts Cannabis Advisory Board, tells Broadly.
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"Let's be very clear: The reason that they are separating these little children from their families is that they are using Section 1325 of that act, which criminalized crossing over the border, to incarcerate the parents and then separate them," Castro said.
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"Let's be very clear, the reason that they are separating these little children from their families is that they are using section 1325 of that act, which criminalized crossing over the border, to incarcerate the parents and then separate them," Castro said.
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In Poland, most prominently since the rise of the Law and Justice party to power in 85033, the government passed a series of "memory laws" that criminalized (later, just civilly sanctioned) any mention of Polish participation in the murder of their Jewish neighbors.
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Abiy - the first member of Ethiopia's majority Oromo group to lead a coalition long dominated by ethnic Tigrayans - has promised to rein in the powerful security services and started consultations to rework an anti-terrorism law that critics said had criminalized dissent.
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A report about the Mitchell case, prepared last year for the Utah attorney general's office by former Utah US attorney Paul Cassell, concluded that Utah law criminalized sex with minors under the age of 16 in 1981, when Mitchell was already 16.
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A similar battle arose in Colorado on Monday when two voters filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn a state law that criminalized the showing of a completed ballot to others, arguing that the ban, which could include social media postings, was unconstitutional.
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It can also cause lifelong painful conditions such as fistula and fatal childbirth complications, says the U.N. Kenya criminalized FGM in 2011 with a minimum punishment of three years imprisonment and a $2,000 fine - the most comprehensive anti-FGM legislation in east Africa.
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"This is something we otherwise only see in countries like Turkey or Russia — autocratic countries where art is criminalized, where artists, journalists and scientists who do not conform to the government are branded as terrorists and traitors," said Langhoff, the letter's principal.
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As the case moves forward, the plaintiffs say that they hope their case will prevent an incident like this from happening again, adding that their ordeal calls attention to the particular ways people of color are criminalized for possessing or being around marijuana.
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Although exemptions were provided for "sacramental wines," ciders, and physicians' prescriptions, the Volstead Act criminalized the alcohol market's supply side, including exports and imports, but not the consumption of beverages containing more than one-half of 28500 percent alcohol by weight or volume.
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But Las Vegas and other cities might've criminalized street camping outright if not for a controversial decision last year from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which deemed it unconstitutional to jail or fine people if there weren't adequate shelter beds available.
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" 'Trying to be well' Carly Jayne Barton, 32, campaigns for legal access to cannabis as deputy director of the United Patients Alliance, an advocacy group that states on its website, "we believe that no one should be criminalized for trying to be well.
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Marissa Alexander has become a notable advocate for imprisoned survivors (referred to by advocates as "criminalized survivors") after she was charged with aggravated assault in 2010 for firing a warning shot in her Florida home to scare off her abusive estranged husband.
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"The purpose of the language is to describe the vast array of means of consumption, and consumption, not possession, is the act the voters determined should remain criminalized if the user is in prison," said the ruling, which was handed down on Tuesday.
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He said he knew plenty of Republicans who were bothered by Mr. Moore's record: two evictions from his job as the state's chief justice, along with repeated assertions that homosexuality should be criminalized and that the First Amendment does not protect Muslims.
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Mr. Wood's book "Christ and the Homosexual" was a rare plea by a gay clergyman for equality at a time when local and state laws criminalized the sexual acts of gay, lesbian and bisexual people, and churchmen condemned homosexuality from their pulpits.
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In 1986, when the Supreme Court upheld laws that criminalized sodomy between consenting adults in private, gay activists held a rally in Greenwich Village in New York, promising to "disrupt traffic, snarl subways and show our rage" during the city's July 4 celebrations.
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Immediately upon King Ying Low's opening, the restaurant became an integral part of the heart of downtown Des Moines, then an area of never-closing saloons and pool halls that were home to the region's most diverse, marginalized, and often criminalized populations.
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"What [Burman] suggests is exactly the kind of thing that advocates who are trying to ensure people aren't criminalized for ending a pregnancy are thinking of—how to leverage the power of the state to protect people who are self-managing," she said.
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In 2014, Saudi Arabia introduced draconian new counter-terrorism laws that said atheists are the same as terrorists, criminalized all expression of dissenting speech, and gave the Interior Ministry the legal authority to jail people or spy on their communications without judicial oversight.
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By putting these incidents on camera, they serve as evidence, providing a digital record for those affected by profiling and a way of alerting a wider audience to the ways in which black behavior continues to be criminalized and subject to policing.
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Kurt Martens, professor of canon law at the Catholic University of America, told the Associated Press that what was significant about the new law is that it doesn't mention that original proposal for the tribunal, which would have criminalized and prosecuted negligence.
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Abortions would become criminalized by 1880, except when necessary to save a woman's life, not at the urging of social or religious conservatives but under pressure from the medical establishment -- and the very organization that today speaks out in support of abortion access, Reagan explained.
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"Research by the CDC shows that any law that threatens or increases fear that bystanders will be incarcerated or criminalized decreases the likelihood of bystanders contacting 911 at the scene of an overdose," Hayes said, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Fortunately, IPPA's final form is a far cry from Arizona's sloppily drafted statute—which could have criminalized the sale of history books that included photos from Abu Ghraib—and is far less likely to be struck down in court if it does get passed.
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The Sedition Act of 1798 was allowed to expire after the election of Thomas Jefferson, but over subsequent decades and centuries, the United States repeatedly criminalized speech and engaged in censorship, targeting radicals and abolitionists, communists and anarchists, civil rights activists and supposed pornographers.
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Read more: Pimps Are Preying on Sex Workers Pushed Off the Web Because of FOSTA-SESTA In the US and other countries where sex work is criminalized, going to the authorities is often not a viable option—for sex workers, and for women in general.
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Ohio, for example, criminalized abortion after 20 weeks into gestation; meanwhile, in Texas, Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation that outlawed the most common second trimester abortion procedure, instituted penalties for people who help women terminate pregnancies prematurely, and mandated cremation or burial of fetal tissue.
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And that points to what may be the biggest threat to both sex toy manufacturers and consumers: Even if pleasure products are unlikely to be criminalized outright, a chilling effect that pushes people out of business and underground could do serious damage to the industry.
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Hoffman thought LSD could be useful for psychiatry and, indeed, in the 1950s, acid was used alongside psychotherapy to help treat alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other conditions—at least until the drug was banned from research in 1966 and criminalized in 1968.
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Everything about us (Black and POC) — all the creative things that come out of NYC from and because of us — are already criminalized, and this plan would just accelerate this process while creating the infrastructure to sustain the oppression of Black and Brown people's existence.
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A Labour lawmaker, Stella Creasy, who called an emergency debate on the matter on Wednesday, wants to repeal parts of the 1861 Offenses Against the Person Act, which criminalized abortion in most cases but was lifted for women in England, Scotland and Wales in 1967.
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There's more at stake here than you might think: either Big Tech helps Americans become better-informed, more responsible citizens able to think for ourselves, or the Big Censorship era--where politically incorrect "disinformation" could just as easily be criminalized--will soon be upon us.
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It is not an illicit substance; unless you live in one of the six states where kratom possession is criminalized, or are part of the US Army or Navy, which also banned the drug, kratom capsules, extracts, and teas are legal to buy and sell.
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He defended a Virginia law that criminalized sodomy, advocated prohibiting Virginia state universities from protecting same-sex couples from discrimination and investigated the University of Virginia to obtain documents related to the work of a scientist who studied climate change, accusing the professor of fraud.
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Moscow's new laws criminalized the act of spreading what it deemed to be "fake news" and information which "disrespects" the state, prompting criticism from journalists and human rights activists who say the legislation is an authoritarian move to help the government directly censor dissent.
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This means not just removing the issue of drugs from the law enforcement sector to the public health sector, but also re-dressing the past harms to all the people whose lives have been destroyed because they have been criminalized for drug use or possession.
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When you get somebody who's a black cop, upholding the legal structures of the system, going into that group, it becomes this play on inclusion and exclusion: how can African Americans be included in the American narrative when their bodies are always criminalized and demonized?
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The measure in Nevada would also repeal some criminalized activities related to abortion, such as selling miscarriage-inducing drugs and advising women on pursuing abortions and self-inducing miscarriages, which are both felonies that could draw a fine of up to $10,000 and 10 years in prison.
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" As Cabán prepared to thank supporters Tuesday, New York Working Families Party director Bill Lipton was among the many supporters celebrating the tally, calling it "a victory for the humanity of those at the margins of society that have been criminalized and incarcerated for no good reason.
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Mr. Sureau, the lawyer, himself won several important appeals of emergency measures at France's Constitutional Council, the equivalent of the Supreme Court, including one that criminalized looking at "terrorist" websites — proving, in the eyes of his critics, that civil liberties in the country are in good shape.
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As the jihadi reaction to the US presence in Iraq reached a blood-soaked crescendo, I saw that the profile of the typical Western recruit had changed from a nerdy, politically driven ideologue of mostly Muslim heritage to a lost, dysfunctional, ruthless, and criminalized young convert.
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The film unflinchingly documents their struggles with mental illness and drug addiction, their efforts to transform their living situations, and their resilience in fighting for the right to recycle, despite being criminalized and harassed by the police with the backing of Oakland's new mayor, Libby Schaaf.
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"While the situation in Northern Ireland is desperate, and this young woman was undoubtedly pushed into breaking the law because she couldn't access abortion at home, any woman doing this in England, Wales or Scotland would be criminalized in exactly the same way," a spokesperson explained.
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And in 2015, Scruff introduced a slate of features to protect users, including sending travel advisories to users who enter countries where homosexuality is criminalized, automatically disabling location services in those countries, and the ability to flag profiles that users believe are being used to entrap others.
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The most direct example is Indonesia, which, partly at Australia's urging, has sharply increased its own use of detention centers, criminalized the act of providing accommodations for anyone without a visa, and attempted to return boats headed for Indonesia back to the countries they had left.
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" Lanier's suit claims that "by contesting Ms. Lanier's claim of lineage, Harvard is shamelessly capitalizing on the intentional damage done to black Americans' genealogy by a century's worth of policies that forcibly separated families, erased slaves' family names, withheld birth and death records, and criminalized literacy.
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Gigant industrialism in the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc showed its own seams and contradictions; for all the talk of a workers' paradise, the Soviets eventually criminalized absenteeism, tardiness and "quitting without permission," controlling labor in ways that would have made the most ruthless capitalist proud.
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Many are part of a generation still quite young when the crack epidemic swept the city in the 1980s and '90s, but whose political consciousness was forged by the consequences of the brutal reaction to that era: decades of over-policing that criminalized blacks and Latinos.
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Some black and Hispanic students have said they are less concerned about a hypothetical mass shooting than with the acute feeling of being criminalized by the police in their schools, particularly because the 93 school buildings with metal detectors are clustered in poor and minority neighborhoods.
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The case, the first to be brought under the 1996 law that criminalized female genital mutilation, has been closely followed by human rights advocates and communities where cutting is still practiced and whose members have moved in growing numbers to the United States and other western countries.
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The way that the support for candidates that criminalized abortion to the point where you put a doctor in jail for 99 years, which is that Alabama law, over 90 percent of Americans support access to contraception, over 75 percent of Americans support Roe v. Wade.
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The unprecedented and unpatriotic attempt by an American president to promote foreign actions against American democracy, by trying to foment foreign attacks against his Democratic opponents in the 85033 and 2020 elections, should be criminalized for any future president, of any political party, against any political opponent.
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A 2016 paper published in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment found that there have been several high-profile police shootings — including of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner — where things like a victim's criminal record, appearance, or behavior "posthumously criminalized" them.
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Radical libertarian thinkers like Rand and Murray Rothbard (who would be a muse to both Charles Koch and Ron Paul) responded with a theory of absolute property rights that morally criminalized taxation and narrowed the scope of legitimate government action and democratic discretion nearly to nothing.
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Another issue is what criminologists call "net widening": Increasingly, local, state, and federal governments have criminalized more and more behaviors that are part of everyday life, adding harsh fines and possible jail time to misdemeanors and crimes that weren't punished so harshly or even at all before.
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Most notably, for the duration of Cannon's short lifetime, the traditional ritual practices of Native American worship were criminalized in the US. Until 1965, when the Voting Rights Act passed (and Cannon was 19), Native Americans were not assured the right to vote in US elections.
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After decades of the war on drugs, much of America's drug policy is colored by a criminalized, stigmatized approach to addiction — one that demands shunning and shutting down all drug use, and trying to make sure that nothing is perceived as even remotely enabling or allowing drug use.
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The detention, the group said, was made by, "a Mexican government that promised to defend human rights, but in reality has bent under pressure from the anti-immigrant government of the US." In a statement, several human rights organizations denounced the arrests and said it criminalized immigrant rights defenders.
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While these claims are wildly overstated, as documented in a book I co-edited, Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports (Perspectives on a Multiracial America), they are based on a kernel of truth about the opportunities athletics can provide for cross-racial interaction.
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We must demand that policymakers in Washington begin unraveling the policies that have shackled generations of young Americans by supporting criminal justice reforms such as the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, and start peeling back layers of policy that have criminalized and demoralized our communities for too long.
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Britain, by contrast, canceled elections during World War II. It is true that Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus while waging war against the South, that antiwar activism was effectively criminalized in World War I, and that human and civil rights have been violated during other crises.
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"We're in the same country, but because the Abortion Act has never been extended to Northern Ireland it means that one set of women—women who pay the same taxes—are being criminalized and jailed for accessing reproductive healthcare through abortion, and one set of women aren't," said Temple.
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"It is illegal to knowingly assist in the commission of violent crimes, drug crimes, and a variety of other crimes; it is only right that Congress, on a fully bipartisan basis, has criminalized assisting in the commission of immigration crimes as well," department spokesman Steven Stafford told The Hill.
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"We are here in LaGuardia because many of these young immigrants who have been criminalized and separated from their families were put on flights and sent to other parts of the country, including here in New York," said Cristina Jimenez, co-founder and executive director of United We Dream.
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According to Lydon, another reason for the high rates is that the same factors that cause people to be at increased risk for HIV transmission—like working as a sex worker or using intravenous drugs—also are associated with an increased risk of imprisonment because they're criminalized behaviors.
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Lawmakers made exceptions for alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, traditional foods like spices, and existing prescription drugs, but the blanket ban on psychoactive substances is apparently intended to end the arms race between prohibitionists and black market chemists, who create new "legal highs" as soon as any specific substance is criminalized.
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"It was quasi-criminalized," said Hansen, noting how the clinics themselves tend to look like prisons (the one I attended when recovering from my own addiction actually had a "man trap" in the doorway like those used to ensure prisoners don't rush from one prison hall to another).
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At stake is the future of criminal justice in Los Angeles but, more broadly, the trajectory of a national movement to reshape a system that has too often criminalized poverty, protected the police and proven to be anything but just for black and brown defendants and victims alike.
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"He has been criminalized for shedding light on China's failure to protect the basic human right to education and for taking entirely lawful steps to press for Tibetan language education," Tenzin Jigdal of the International Tibet Network, a coalition of groups supporting Tibetan self-determination, said in an email.
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Trans women, women of color, and trans women of color feel the effects of criminalization most acutely; many of them make up Decrim NY's steering committee and have spoken at the coalition's rallies about their brushes with arrest, incarceration, and abuse as a result of their work being criminalized.
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As part of the reform, the government had created a bizarre loophole, closed five years later, which criminalized any sexual acts between a man over eighteen with another under twenty-one; in other words, if two 19-year-old men slept together, they could still be prosecuted under §175.
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And when the Obama administration tried to portray its deportation efforts as focusing on "criminal aliens," Gutierrez lifted up cases of immigrants who'd been "criminalized" for minor offenses like broken taillights — refusing to give into the framing of "deport felons, not families" that many immigration activists found reductive.
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The background radiation to panic over Pokémon Go is one in which whistleblowers are regularly criminalized by the state, in which we know about XKey score and the deals companies like Google and CenturyLink have with the NSA to keep vulnerabilities in their software so the surveillance state may exploit them.
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The background radiation to panic over Pokémon Go is one in which whistleblowers are regularly criminalized by the state, in which we know about XKeyscore and the deals companies like Google and CenturyLink have with the NSA to keep vulnerabilities in their software so the surveillance state may exploit them.
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Here's everything else you need to know about Alabama's abortion bill: The bill would ban abortions at every stage of pregancy unless the mother's life is in danger—again, no exceptions for rape or incest—and it would make providing abortion a felony; people who have abortions would not be criminalized.
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The war on drugs was gaining momentum, and its racially motivated sentencing laws—drugs more likely to be used by minority communities, like crack cocaine, were criminalized at a rate of 100 to one relative to drugs favored by white communities—helped reinforce the already entrenched notion of blackness as criminality.
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Together with survivors, advocates, prosecutors, other members of law enforcement, and many concerned individuals across the country, we call on the Department of Justice to reverse course on this policy and allow its human trafficking funds to be used to provide legal representation for survivors who have been unjustly criminalized.
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While freeing criminalized survivors of domestic and sexual violence still remains a demand of the organization, Petty said that it was crucial for the group to shift its focus to the immediate needs of incarcerated people during the pandemic in a way that is safe for organizers, volunteers, and supporters.
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Although 60 percent or more of men in our survey agreed that honor killings should be criminalized, more than 70 percent in most of the countries also believed that how female relatives dress or act directly affects male honor and that it is a man's duty to act as their guardian.
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In the face of increasing rents, and not nearly enough government-sanctioned safe parking programs to satisfy demand, many cities in Southern California, including parts of Los Angeles, have criminalized the practice of living in your vehicle, making it illegal to spend the night in a car on residential streets.
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All of this huge progress stands aside from the fact that consensual homosexual activity had never been criminalized in many countries in the first place -- Burkina Faso, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, the Central African Republic, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Madagascar, Mali, Niger and Rwanda.
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A study published in Sociology of Education of more than 60,000 schools found that schools with relatively larger minority and poor populations are more likely to implement criminalized disciplinary policies — such as suspensions, expulsions, police referrals, and arrests — and less likely to treat students by, say, connecting them to psychological or behavioral care.
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But the government will never put an end to that dark chapter of Canadian history unless it widens the scope of its review to include all the ways queer people have been criminalized throughout history, said Gary Kinsman, a sociologist at Laurentian University and co-author of The Canadian War On Queers.
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The Center for a Secure Free Society, a national security think tank based in Washington, has gone a step further and labeled Venezuela a "parallel state" that combines a "criminalized state" with a revolutionary framework that draws its source of support from external state actors: Russia, Iran and China, or the VRIC.
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Their main worry appeared to be that Mr. McDonnell's prosecution had criminalized what they perceived as normal, day-to-day political behavior — seemingly more concerned for the chilling effect of federal bribery law on an elected official who accepts a Rolex than for the citizens who are hurt by such self-serving behavior.
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"A lot of times women of color won't express what they're going through, or seek out help, because they don't want to be criminalized for the choices they make," Ms. Porchia-Albert said, adding that a black woman might fear losing custody of her children if she admits to being overwhelmed or exhausted.
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As Ezequiel Zaidenwerg notes on the book's back cover: Legend has it that Prelongher wrote this poem on the interminable bus trip from Buenos Aires to São Paulo that would take him into exile from a regime that had paradoxically criminalized him not for his fierce political activism, but for his militant homosexuality.
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"I do believe we are moving into a new era, where both Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, are agreeing that our system of laws is over-criminalized and our prison systems are expensive and ineffective," said P.S. Ruckman Jr., a professor at Northern Illinois University and the editor of the blog Pardon Power.
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"I major in political science, and my goal, which is still my goal, is to get my bachelor's and go to law school and work for the state's attorney's office, to help people that are in my situation, to make sure that they're not being exploited and not being criminalized for being impoverished," Wilkes said.
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Women around the world continue to fight for control over of their reproductive rights: in New Zealand, abortion remains criminalized by law, which sets aside an exception for the procedure if approved by two certified consultants; for those of us in the United States, we're witnessing threats to essential health service organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) downplayed the potential legal implications of campaign finance law violations, saying the matter has been "over-criminalized," while Sen.
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Perhaps this book is best thought of as an opportunity for other scholars to take the project forward, in an act of intellectual ice climbing on the sheer face of a culture animated by the sexual control of men, that criminalized queer desire at every level in the service of the protection of white innocence.
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"The impact on sex workers has been immediate: people are pushed out into the street where they're at greater risk of violence, and they are afraid to seek help because their work is criminalized," Jessica Raven, executive director of DC-based advocacy group Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS), told me in a Twitter message.
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You don't have to have graduated from college or high school in order to apply," Dale Sky Jones, executive chancellor, president and CEO of Oaksterdam tells CNBC Make It. "You really just have to be of age, and that's really important to consider because so many people were criminalized before they even finished high school.
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As part of an effort to keep the DMCA timely, Congress included a so-called "safety valve" dubbed the Section 1201 triennial review process that, every three years, mandates that activists and concerned citizens beg the Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress to craft explicit exemptions from the law to ensure routine behavior won't be criminalized.
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The new law would have criminalized The Guardian newspaper for publishing the leaked Edward Snowden documents (for which the newspaper won a Pulitzer), but it would also have prevented The Daily Telegraph newspaper publishing the details of a leak of British MPs' expenses, which uncovered widespread fiddling -- and in some cases, criminal misuse -- of taxpayers' money by politicians.
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"What seemed crazy to them back in 2007, when I was arguing that this should be criminalized and was a civil-rights violation, all of a sudden became non-crazy," Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, told the New Yorker in December 2016, referring to her recommendations to lawmakers which included criminalizing revenge porn.
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And while US officials noted that it would be possible for diplomats already in the US to marry their partner — which the State Department would then recognize, and provide an update to their visa — opponents of the decision noted that doing so may expose a diplomat from a country where same-sex marriage is criminalized to greater risk.
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Harris writes that some parents should be prosecuted for chronically truant children, that prostitution should remain criminalized, that teachers and principals want police presence around schools, that law enforcement should not ignore low-level drug users — all ideas that chafe against the progressive belief that a heavy law enforcement presence does more harm than good in vulnerable communities.
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Perhaps the only legitimate concern having to do with explicit relationship between sex work and a child's safety is the fact that individuals working in prostitution are still being criminalized, so these women tend to be incarcerated or face arrest, which can mean having their children sent to a relative or taken under the dysfunctional care of the state.
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But for less fortunate women, the choice may be between attempting to secure an unmanageable loan to fund a life-threatening illegal termination (since it continues to be true that when abortion is criminalized, dangerous backstreet operations become far more common) or carrying and giving birth to a baby you feel entirely unequipped to care for.
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Americans have been anticipating McBride's address for the last several days; her presence on the stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) is an historic turning point for transgender representation in the halls of government and a symbolic seizure of the same political arena that has historically criminalized, or dangerously disregarded, transgender citizens of the United States.
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"This is something we otherwise only see in countries like Turkey or Russia — autocratic countries where art is criminalized, where artists, journalists and scientists who do not conform to the government are branded as terrorists and traitors," said Shermin Langhoff, the artistic director of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and one of the authors of the letter.
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During the interview on Thursday to discuss "Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love," a historical examination of same-sex relations in the Victorian era and the ways in which they were criminalized, she told the BBC Radio host, Matthew Sweet, that she found "several dozen executions" of men accused of having sex with other men.
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"Let's be very clear: The reason that they are separating these little children from their families is that they are using Section 1325 of that act, which criminalized crossing over the border, to incarcerate the parents and then separate them," Castro said, referring to the government's use of Section 1325 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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" Weeks later, after the court -- whose justices are appointed by the Indian President on the recommendation of a group of top judges -- struck down a law that criminalized adultery and treated a wife as the property of her husband, the Times of India welcomed what it called "another historic verdict that takes law out of the bedroom.
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Up to this point in her tenure, Harris had established a record as a supporter of immigrant rights while district attorney: She supported issuing specialized visas for undocumented victims of violent crimes, prosecuted an unlicensed contractor in a labor exploitation case for wage theft of immigrants, and denounced proposed federal legislation that would have criminalized assisting undocumented immigrants.
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If private contracts between individuals are suddenly criminalized — and if the attorney-client privilege of those involved in drafting them aren't held sacred — then every businessman, politician and private citizen should be concerned, as we are heading down a slippery slope where contract law in America will no longer exist and neither will our civilized society.
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Yet the facilities remain highly controversial in the U.S. After decades of the war on drugs, much of America's drug policy is colored by a criminalized, stigmatized approach to addiction — one that demands shunning and shutting down all drug use, and trying to make sure that nothing is perceived as even remotely enabling or allowing drug use.
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"There's not that many of us, and if we're doing checkpoints and we're doing backpack checks I feel like we may be viewed in a different light by officers, and we may be criminalized and we may be looked at as if we hold a weapon or we pose a threat to school campus," MSD junior Kyrah Simon told WLRN.
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When controversies over insults to the Prophet Muhammad first arose in colonial India, the cases arising from them were dealt with under the Indian Penal Code written by the British politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, who criminalized the injury of religious and other sentiments in secular rather than theological terms by treating it the same way as defamation, libel and other such offenses.
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The potential punishments are lower if the crime takes place in another public place, such as the street, as happened to one of her clients, a freelance foreign correspondent and VICE News contributor named Andrea Noel whose case is viewed by many as a classic example of the way women who report assaults are ignored, belittled, criminalized or even attacked.
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Abigail Burman, the third-year University of California, Berkeley, law student who authored the paper, said this approach would mean using the often-untapped governing powers of municipalities to protect people seeking abortions, particularly those who manage their own abortions outside of a clinic setting—a practice that is explicitly criminalized in five states: Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.
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When I was district attorney of San Francisco I instituted a number of policies that were focused on women and children and how they were treated frankly with bias in the criminal justice system where they were criminalized without really looking at the real offender and so often that case was the pimps and johns, so women were arrested as being prostitutes.
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