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Title: Brazil pulls 'happy prostitute' campaign after backlash
Post by: riky on June 06, 2013, 09:00:29 AM
Brazil pulls 'happy prostitute' campaign after backlash

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/brazil-pulls-happy-prostitute-campaign-backlash-132555115.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/E2Ee0PJFt7OwFNA7aINeSA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-06-05T170459Z_1_CBRE9541BGE00_RTROPTP_2_CLIMATE-BRAZIL-DAM.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="To match feature CLIMATE-BRAZIL/DAM" align="left" title="To match feature CLIMATE-BRAZIL/DAM" border="0" /></a>SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's health ministry on Wednesday pulled an outreach campaign urging sex workers to use condoms after coming under fire from conservative lawmakers. &quot;I'm happy being a prostitute&quot; was the slogan on a web campaign for International Prostitute Day that also encouraged sex workers to not be ashamed to seek medical treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. The campaign was published on the health ministry's website and social media sites last weekend, and has since provoked a wave of criticism, especially from evangelical legislators in Brazil's congress. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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