The government's decree decriminalizes corruption involving less than the equivalent of $48,000.
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Jerry Brown signed legislation that decriminalizes prostitution and increases protections for young trafficking victims.
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The new law decriminalizes certain actions related to performing abortions, abortion drugs and abortion prosecution.
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The bill also decriminalizes certain actions related to performing abortions, abortion drugs, and abortion prosecution.
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The "slapping law" decriminalizes the first offense of domestic violence that does not severely injure a person.
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It also decriminalizes giving a woman medication to induce an abortion without the advice of a doctor.
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While the new law decriminalizes the use of the drug, commercial distribution is still off the table.
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Update: According to CNN, Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a bill which decriminalizes some forms of domestic violence.
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Hence, the president cannot issue a "blanket pardon" that retroactively decriminalizes any and all illegal efforts to influence the 2016 elections.
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In the best outcome of the case, the European Court of Human Rights rules that international laws demands that Russia decriminalizes methadone therapy.
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The initiative effectively decriminalizes use or possession of psilocybin by people 21 and older, making it the lowest enforcement priority for police and prosecutors.
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But supporters of the law, which decriminalizes abortion and places it in public health codes with other medical procedures, say such fear is driven by misinformation.
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In addition, the Crimes Act 2016 decriminalizes suicide, which became an issue after refugees deported from Australia to a controversial Nauru detention center committed or attempted suicide.
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On Tuesday, the city's voters surprised everyone by narrowly approving a ballot initiative that effectively decriminalizes psilocybin, making its possession, use or personal cultivation a low-priority crime.
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Read: India's top court decriminalizes gay sex in landmark ruling Minister of Home Affairs Walton Brown Jr. said it could be two years before a final decision comes down.
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It not only decriminalizes crossing the border without papers but also includes reductions in immigration detention, the elimination of private detention facilities, and protecting schools, medical facilities, and courthouses from immigration enforcement.
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New Mexico, already referred to by many anti-abortion advocates as the "late-term abortion capital" of the country, recently passed a bill in the House that decriminalizes abortion at the state level.
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On Thursday, lawmakers in New South Wales -- which is home to Sydney -- voted to pass a bill that decriminalizes abortion and makes terminations available to people who are less than 22 weeks pregnant.
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"If the government goes ahead and decriminalizes nonpayment of the license fee, we know the impact will be further losses for the BBC of around £200 million a year," NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet said in a statement.
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The new Chilean law, passed by Congress in August, decriminalizes abortion under three circumstances: if the life of the pregnant woman is at risk; if the pregnancy is the result of rape; or if the fetus will not survive.
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"We need to make sure we do it in a way that decriminalizes people, doesn't have a criminal justice intervention when its not appropriate and focus those criminal justice resources on those things that are real threats to communities," she continued.
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Both Holland, which "tolerates" illegal sales in regulated coffee shops and Portugal, which decriminalizes possession of all drugs—but didn't legalize sales of any—report generally positive or unremarkable results from policies that have been in place for years now.
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"While this legislation decriminalizes, for adults 21 and older, personal possession of no more than 1 ounce, and cultivation of two mature plants on their private property, marijuana remains a controlled substance in Vermont and its sale is prohibited," the statement added.
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Putin signs domestic violence bill that gives first-time abusers a break Putin signs domestic violence bill that gives first-time abusers a break President Putin weakened Russia's domestic violence laws Tuesday by signing a new amendment that decriminalizes certain acts of violence in the home.
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The 1980 law decriminalizes concubinage , which was strictly banned back in 1950; some lawyers believe that the sugar- baby activities or concubinage started to flourish again since early 1980s. The 2001 Amendment of Marriage Law Article 3 bans the cohabitation between a married person with another opposite sex, again.
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On November 3, 2009, voters passed ballot measure 2F by a nearly 3 to 1 margin (73%), which legalized marijuana possession for adults. The measure allows possession of up to an ounce of marijuana and also decriminalizes the possession of marijuana-related paraphernalia. Possession became legal January 1, 2010.
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The War on Marijuana in Black and White, p. 123, table A3 & p. 155. In Maryland, Blacks were 2.9 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession.The War on Marijuana in Black and White, p. 155. In April 2014, Governor Martin O'Malley signed a law that decriminalizes the possession of 10 grams or less of marijuana.
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Another statutory counterpart to the Sedition Act is section 298A of the Penal Code,. which was introduced in 2007 to "criminalise the deliberate promotion by someone of enmity, hatred or ill-will between different racial and religious groups on grounds of race or religion". Unlike the Sedition Act, section 298A includes the additional requirement of knowledge,Zhong, p. 28. and excludes a proviso which decriminalizes certain bona fide acts.
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The position of prostitution and the law varies widely worldwide, reflecting differing opinions. Some view prostitution as a form of exploitation of or violence against women, and children, that helps to create a supply of victims for human trafficking. Some critics of prostitution as an institution are supporters of the "Nordic model", which decriminalizes the act of selling sex, but makes the purchase of sex illegal. This approach has also been adopted by Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Norway, France and Sweden.
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As of 2009, the Argentine government has officially ended the ban on homosexuals in the Argentine Armed Forces. A new military justice system was put into effect which decriminalizes homosexuality among uniformed members, and moves crimes committed exclusively within the military to the public justice sphere [previously there had been a separate military court system]. Under the old system, homosexuals were not permitted to have access to a military career, at the same time as this sexual orientation was penalized. And, while there are no publicly known former sanctions against homosexuals under the old policy, this does not mean that men and women with that sexual orientation have not been disciplined, and perhaps separated from the armed forces under a mantle of silence.
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