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Bulgarian-born Ivana (pseudonym), who works as a prostitute in the German capital, sits at Cafe Neustart run by aid association Neustart eV at Kurfuerstenstrasse in Berlin on February 17, 2024. Two decades after Germany legalised prostitution, a new debate over whether to ban sex work again has erupted, with the opposition conservatives leading a fresh push for prohibition. In a proposal put to the Bundestag on February 23, 2024, the CDU-CSU alliance argues that the legalisation of prostitution in 2002 has failed to reach its aim of improving the lot of women in sex work through regulation. (Photo by CHRISTIAN MANG / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/CHRISTIAN MANG)