Cuba

Is selling sex criminalised?
Sex work is technically legal in Cuba. Laws against 'prostitution' were removed in 1976 amidst claims that prostitution had been eradicated from Cuba. There are however other laws that target sex workers. For example loitering and soliciting can be seen as anti-social conduct, which is criminal. Sex workers are vulnerable to arrest, fining and jail time under a range of other laws.
Is buying sex criminalised?
No
Is organising/managing criminalised?
"Pimping" and 'promoting prostitution' are criminal offences.
What other laws are used disproportionately against sex workers?
Police can use laws against "dangerousness". These are broad laws - It is considered a state of dangerousness through antisocial conduct if one habitually breaks the rules of coexistence through acts of violence or through other provocative acts violates the rights of others, or through general behaviour damages the rules of co-existence, or disturbs the order of the community, or lives, as a social parasite, from the work of others, or exploits or practices socially reprehensible acts
Is there mandatory HIV/STI testing?
No
Is there mandatory registration?
No
Is sex work recognised as work?
No
Is sex work decriminalised with limited regulation?
No
Sources/further reading
Trumbull, C. (2001). Prostitution and sex tourism in Cuba. Cuba in Transition, 11, 356-371.; Cabezas, A. L. (2004). Between love and money: Sex, tourism, and citizenship in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Signs, 29(4), 987-1015.
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