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Experiences of violence lead to long-lasting physical and mental health impacts on the survivors, including injury, unintended pregnancy and pregnancy related complications, WHO's Saima Wazed said
No country has achieved the gender equality targets set by the United Nations for 2030 under the Sustainable Development Goals, said the report
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NRCB data revealed that girls irrespective of all age-groups are more vulnerable to sexual offences than boys
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The German parliament is set to pass a new law today broadening the definition of sex crimes and making it easier to deport foreign nationals who commit them. After years of debate on the need for tougher treatment of rape by the criminal justice system, the new legislation finally came together following a rash of sexual assaults in crowds on New Year's Eve in the western city of Cologne. Dubbed the "No means No" law by the media, it explicitly covers cases in which a victim withheld consent but did not physically fight back. The legislation, entitled "improving the protection of sexual self-determination", also lowers the bar for deporting sexual offenders, classifies groping as a sex crime and targets assaults committed by large groups. "It is crucial that we finally embed the principle 'No means No' in criminal law and make every non-consensual sexual act a punishable offence," said deputy Eva Hoegl of the Social Democrats, one of the law's sponsors. Chancellor Angela ...
The two-finger test continues to be carried out on rape survivors in hospitals in Bihar despite a ban by SC