Translation of "Entkriminalisieren" in English

Compelling lawmakers to decriminalize defamation will not be easy.

UK Crown Dependency Guernsey (Including Alderney, Herm and Sark) decriminalised homosexuality.

Professor David Nutt: “Why We Should Decriminalise Personal Possession Of All Drugs”

The new president, Emmanuel Macron, had promised to decriminalize cannabis use.

The main political party wants to decriminalize cannabis.

In July, the UN Human Rights Committee called on the country to decriminalize abortion.

The Jamaican government has decided to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of cannabis.

Members of parliament emphasized that they do not want to legalize drugs, but only to decriminalize.

A group of politicians and drugs experts is making a new attempt at decriminalising cannabis in Switzerland.

At a time when we are seeing an increasing number of human rights violations, I feel it is crucial, in the light of this anti-freedom law, for the European Parliament to look beyond the divisions that separate its political families and be able to condemn this bill in the strongest possible terms and to call on the Ugandan Parliament to reject the bill and to review its national legislation in order to decriminalise homosexuality.

On this issue, Uganda has the support of many African countries which do not want the international community or the European Union to exert pressure on them to decriminalise homosexuality.

We do not wish to decriminalise drug abuse. Instead, we wish to give clear and unambiguous signals that reject drugs.

Portugal recently went a step further in voting to decriminalize recreational drugs, including heroin and cocaine – a move that has led to a significant decline in drug-related deaths and a fall in new HIV infections.

Finally, at the European level, EU policymakers can help by encouraging member states to decriminalize possession of small amounts of drugs.

The anti-gay Section 28 passes in England and Wales; Scotland enacts almost identical legislation; Canadian MP Svend Robinson comes out; Canada lowers the age of consent for sodomy to 18; Belize and Israel decriminalize (de jure) sodomy and sexual acts between men (the relevant section in the old British-mandate law from 1936 was never enforced in Israel).

We need to rein in the bad actors; eliminate discrimination against migrants; sharply reduce human trafficking; increase the share of migrants working at their highest skill level; decriminalize migration violations; end the detention of migrant children; recast refugees as productive members of our communities; and lower the proportion of migrants lacking residency rights.

Albania's Helsinki Committee broadly endorsed the code, although it made some significant comments on the need to limit the use of capital punishment and to decriminalize homosexuality.

But similarly hollow arguments were used in the past to delay ending slavery, granting the vote to women, ending colonial rule, ending segregation, decriminalising homosexuality, bolstering worker’s rights and environmental regulations, allowing same sex marriages and banning smoking.

If it were to win voters' acceptance Switzerland would become the first country in the world to decriminalise the purchase, possession and consumption of cannabis.

Just hours before the state’s legislative session ended Tuesday, the California Assembly voted to approve SB 1449, Sen. Mark Leno’s bill to fully decriminalize simple marijuana possession.

"Today's EP resolution, strongly backed by the European Socialists and Democrats, explicitly calls on the EU Commission and Council to radically change approach on migration, decriminalising the provision of humanitarian assistance to migrants in distress, strengthening the international obligations for Member States on search and rescue at sea, and increasing the legal channels to the EU for migrants and asylum seekers.

Mexico’s move to decriminalize drugs is another factor cutting off funding to the Bush mafia, the sources say.

The work of Hirschfeld marks the first great effort in modern times to decriminalise homosexuality based on scientific debate.

If all three measures are approved, Montana would become the 10th state to legalize cannabis for medical purposes, Oregon would dramatically expand its existing medical-marijuana program, and Alaska would become the first state to decriminalize cannabis altogether.