Call to criminalise sex buyers
JOHANNESBURG - Embrace Dignity is calling on government to declare prostitution a crime against youth.
It also wants Parliament to endorse the Equality Model or Sankara Law.
It criminalises the buying of sex and pimps and brothel keepers and not just sex workers.
Norway, Iceland, Canada, Northern Ireland, France and Ireland have already adopted the law.
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