WMC Women Under Siege
December 27, 2022 | Areeb Uddin Ahmed |
Gender-based violence,
Health,
International,
Violence against women
India’s Supreme Court Decision on Abortion Rights Could Go Further in Protecting Women from Marital Rape
While India is one of the few countries yet to criminalize marital rape, the high court recently ruled that victims of marital rape are entitled to a safe and legal abortion, establishing in Indian law that non-consensual sex can and does exist among married partners.
WMC Women Under Siege
December 04, 2017 | Melissa Prax |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
International,
Violence against women
Men in India are still legally allowed to rape their wives. But women are fighting back.
In India, it’s now illegal for a man to have sex with his wife if she is under the age of 18. But anti-rape activists in India are looking at the next fight ahead of them: making the rape of adult women in marriage illegal.