From AL JAZEERA:
A ban on brothels puts prostitutes at risk and is unconstitutional, Ontario’s top court has ruled, in a case that is expected to be appealed to Canada’s top court and have ramifications for the country at large.
“The world in which street prostitutes actually operate is a world of dark streets and barren, isolated, silent places,” said the five-judge Ontario Court of Appeal panel in their ruling on Monday. “It is a dangerous world, with always the risk of violence and even death.”
The panel also said that rules against profitting from prostitution should apply only to “circumstances of exploitation” to prevent pimps from exploiting sex workers…
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EDITOR: The irony of Canada these days is they have an unusually conservative federal government and an unusually liberal court.
