Decriminalise

Finally, where prohibition is the law of the land – change the policy and decriminalise people who use drugs by diverting them away from the courts for a health assessment every time someone is found in the possession of drugs for personal use.

A report examining the proposed legal framework to decriminalise sex work has recommended legislation to be passed.

Harris once also opposed a move to decriminalise prostitution in California — but then, as a presidential candidate in 2019, she declared that she favoured legalising sex work.

The Scottish National Party manifesto pledges to decriminalise drugs for personal use.

Tonight’s special edition of Tfeatures a debate around homosexuality and whether Ireland should decriminalise homosexual acts.

The Government is already consulting on proposals to decriminalise non-payment of the licence fee, and ministers have suggested it could be abolished altogether when the BBC's charter comes up for renewal in 2027.

We believe Thai society is reaching a point of critical mass that will embolden politicians and law makers to repeal the Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act to decriminalise sex work.

But an attempt to decriminalise abortion was pushed back by parliament in 2017.

New York state was the latest to decriminalise recreational use in July 2019.

The Labour manifesto says a Labour government will ‘decriminalise abortions’.

The NSW upper house is due to begin considering the bill to decriminalise abortion.

The struggle to decriminalise abortion in New South Wales shows how women can organise to have reproductive rights recognised, putting paid to the paternalistic and wrong assumption that we cannot be trusted to make decisions about our bodies.

For its part, the main opposition New Democratic Party, supports liberalisation of the nation’s marijuana bill and, citing the recommendation of the CARICOM Marijuana Commission, has called on the government to decriminalise marijuana for all uses.

However in recent years, there has been a very vocal campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in India.

Meanwhile, the AFC is hopeful it will receive unilateral support for its bill seeking to decriminalise possession of marijuana in small quantities.

On 18 September 2018 the highest court in South Africa, the Constitutional Court, ruled to decriminalise the private usage of dagga in the country.

The bill, if passed by the Senate, would decriminalise abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, and beyond that in cases where the fetus suffers from conditions not compatible with life outside the womb.

We must decriminalise petty offences because the people see the need to do so,” he said.

Private Members' Bills have no chance of success if the current government opposes them, but they are used in moral issues: the bills to decriminalise homosexuality and abortion were Private Members' Bills, for example.