Sentence examples for continue to criminalise from inspiring English sources

Human rights abuses, unfortunately, continue to persist globally – 78 countries continue to criminalise same-sex relationships.

"I think the law should continue to criminalise assisted suicide, and I think that the law should be broken from time to time," he said.

She said: "For a report to be released from the Home Office that says criminal sanctions have no impact on prevalence and then to continue to criminalise people would be woefully neglectful.

"If you don't hold law enforcement agencies accountable to treat communities with respect and dignity, essentially what you're saying is that you should be allowed to be mistreated and we will continue to criminalise your community".

All other states, including the Northern Territory, continue to criminalise sex workers to varying degrees, but South Australian law is still the most punitive.

Yuval Shany, a member of the UN board, said the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act continued to criminalise pregnant women who had a right to an abortion, the Irish Times reported.

That's the legal model that is being argued for; to give the police who kick down our doors additional powers to harass, detain and deport us, while continuing to criminalise our work friendships, partners and workplaces.

Much of the ensuing discussion has focused on the likely effect of Cook's announcement on public policy, on the career prospects of gay people in the US who remain overwhelmingly afraid to come out to their work colleagues, and on the dozens of countries that do business with Apple while continuing to criminalise homosexuality.

In terms of prejudice, meanwhile, our descendants may – hopefully – wonder how still-marginalised groups like transgender people ever faced intolerance; let alone how some parts of the world continued to criminalise homosexuality, reject equal rights for women, or hold some groups of workers in modern slavery.

I would suggest a clear distinction between serious threats to an individual (which should continue to be criminalised) and simply causing offence (which should not be).

Waste pickers, while being the de facto recycling system in many developing countries, continue to be marginalised, criminalised, and ultimately displaced by privatised waste management systems that give priority to large industrial infrastructures rather than human-scale and local-driven systems.