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BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is being perpetuated by family laws that...

The womens rights NGO, Equality Now, has released a policy brief to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on how inadequate justice for women and girls, and a lack of...

DARK AGES The 20 countries that still allow rapists to MARRY underage victims to escape jail, shocking UN report reveals Updated: 14 Apr 2021, 15:00 TWENTY countries still allow rapists to marry their underage victims in order to escape prison, a shocking UN report has revealed. More than a dozen countries allow men to have their rape convictions overturned if they marry the women or girls they have assaulted. 4 The mother and sister of a 16-year-old girl who took her own life after being forc...

‘Marry your rapist’ laws in 20 countries still allow perpetrators to escape justice Sarah Johnson © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Patrick Baz/Getty Twenty countries still allow rapists to marry their victims to escape criminal prosecution, according to the UN’s annual state of world population report. Russia, Thailand and Venezuela are among the countries that allow men to have rape convictions overturned if they marry the women or girls they have assaulted. Dr N...

Last modified on Wed 14 Apr 2021 05.45 EDT Twenty countries still allow rapists to marry their victims to escape criminal prosecution, according to the UN’s annual state of world population report. Russia, Thailand and Venezuela are among the countries that allow men to have rape convictions overturned if they marry the women or girls they have assaulted. Dr Natalia Kanem, executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), which published the report on Wednesday, said such laws were â�...