Landmark Supreme Court ruling says bans on solicitation and brothels violated sex workers’ right to safety.

Canada’s top court has overturned all restrictions on prostitution, declaring that existing laws violated sex workers’ right to safety.

The Supreme Court of Canada struck down bans on brothels, street solicitation, and living on the earnings of prostitution in a unanimous 9-0 decision on Friday, and gave the Canadian government one year to re-write the country’s prostitution laws.

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