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An anti-rape law covering marital rape was passed in 1997. [350] [47] [law 112] Marital rape was explicitly criminalised by the Anti- Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004 (Sec. 3(B)(a),(b)). [law 113] The legality of the marital rape laws was upheld by the Supreme Court in People vs Jumawan G.R. No. 187495 (2014). [351] Poland ...
The World Bank's 2018 " "Women, Business and the Law" report states that the country's general rape laws apply to marital rape. [252] The 2017 El Salvador Country Report on Human Rights Practices suggests this is only at a judge's discretion. [316] An earlier (2011) report, the "UN Womens Justice Report" states there are no laws covering ...
Victoria has been at the forefront of family violence policy development and reform in Australia for the past 15 years and has been influential in propelling reforms in other Australian and international jurisdictions. [111] In 2002, the Victorian Law Reform Commission's review of family violence laws sparked a number of changes in Victoria.
The first Australian state to deal with marital rape was South Australia, under the progressive initiatives of Premier Don Dunstan, which in 1976 partially removed the exemption. Section 73 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act Amendment Act 1976 (SA) read: "No person shall, by reason only of the fact that he is married to some other person, be ...
Serbia: Marital rape was criminalized in March; before that date rape was legally defined as forced sexual intercourse outside of marriage. [ 25 ] Australia, Australian Capital Territory: References to abortion as a criminal offence were repealed by the Crimes (Abolition of Offence of Abortion) Act 2002.
A 52-year-old taxi driver, Ramdev Yadav, said a law against marital rape could deter people from marriage. “Sex should not be forced, but no one will marry if this law is introduced,” he said.
With a few notable exceptions, it was during the past 30 years when most laws against marital rape have been enacted. Several countries in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia made spousal rape illegal before 1970, but other countries in Western Europe and the English-speaking Western World outlawed it much later, mostly in the 1980s and 1990s. [16]
A marry-your-rapist law, marry-the-rapist law, or rape-marriage law is a rule of rape law in a jurisdiction under which a man who commits rape, sexual assault, statutory rape, abduction or other similar act is exonerated if he marries his female victim, or in some jurisdictions at least offers to marry her. The "marry-your-rapist" law is a ...