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  • Dr Dimitrios Kagiaros and Dr Inga Thiemann

M.A. and others v. France: The ‘End Demand’ model of Regulating Sex Work goes to Strasbourg

September 03, 2024

by Dr Dimitrios Kagiaros and Dr Inga Thiemann In M.A. and others v. France, the Court’s fifth section was called to decide on a particularly controversial issue: whether France’s 2016 law, which criminalised the purchase of sex without exception, was compatible with Articles 2, 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). […]