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title: "Good news, everyone! "Mexico City lawmakers have given the green…"
date: 2019-06-18
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# Good news, everyone! "Mexico City lawmakers have given the green…

*June 18, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/01/mexico-city-decriminalize-sex-trafficking](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/01/mexico-city-decriminalize-sex-trafficking){target="_blank"}
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Good news, everyone!\
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\"Mexico City lawmakers have given the green light to decriminalize sex work in the capital, hoping it will be a first step to a crackdown on sex trafficking that traps thousands of Mexican women and children.\
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Lawmakers in Mexico City's congress on Friday voted 38-0, with eight abstentions, in favor of a bill to remove a line in the civic culture law which said prostitutes and their clients can be fined or arrested if neighbors complained.\
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Temistocles Villanueva, a local representative with the ruling center-left Morena party, said the new law recognized that people had the right to engage in sex work.\"\
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[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/01/mexico-city-decriminalize-sex-trafficking](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/01/mexico-city-decriminalize-sex-trafficking){target="_blank"}
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