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Sixty-six countries at the UN call for homosexuality to be decriminalised, but 60 others say it is up to individual states.

Swiss voters overwhelmingly back a radical health policy that offers prescription heroin to addicts on a permanent basis.

Parking offences could be decriminalised in North Lanarkshire with the council collecting fines rather than the police.

Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez vetoes a bill approved by parliament earlier this week to legalise abortion.

Uruguyans are split over the decision by Congress to decriminalise abortion but opinion are also divided over the president's role in the issue, reports Veronica Psetizki

Uruguay's Senate votes to decriminalise abortion in the first 12 weeks but the president is set to veto the measure.

A senior Kent academic backs calls for the government to re-think its drugs policy.

A former senior civil servant, who worked with ex-Labour drug tsar Keith Hellawell, says Britain's policy on drugs is "pointless".

The chief of North Wales Police says he believes it is "inevitable" that all drugs will be legalised within a decade.

Singapore's parliament votes against a controversial proposal to decriminalise sex between men.

A council has a "successful" year enforcing parking after it takes over the responsibility from police.

Gay men speak out about their experiences on the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

New rules have effectively "decriminalised" routine credit card fraud, a BBC investigation finds.

The Independent on Sunday says it is sorry for its 10-year campaign to decriminalise cannabis and fears the drug is dangerous.

What is the current criminal law on deliberate euthanasia in Britain and other European states?

Amid mounting fears for the safety of sex workers in Ipswich, Suffolk, can prostitutes work safely in the UK?

A landmark legal appeal against a parking ticket could lead to similar claims across the country.

MPs brand inconsistencies in parking enforcement policy "absurd", in a report.

A report by MPs on parking enforcement has criticised the system. What are its findings?

Protesters trying to break up a gay rights march in Bucharest clash with riot police who make dozens of arrests.

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