The European Parliament on Thursday urged member states to promote the so-called “Swedish model” to combat prostitution — which punishes the client and not the person, usually a woman, who solicits.

The Strasbourg plenary session approved a non-binding report that promotes the ‘decriminalisation of prostituted persons, especially women’.

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