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Criminalizing marital rape

"No one is even willing to discuss to reform the criminalization of marital rape... Making marital rape illegal or an offence will remove the destructive attitudes that promote marital rape...(Its) total statutory abolition is the first necessary step in teaching societies that dehumanized treatment of women will not be tolerated and that marital rape is not a husband’s privilege, but rather a violent act and an injustice that must be criminalized...A law that does not give married and unmarried women an equal protection creates conditions that lead to marital rape,” noted Gujarat High Court Justice Jamshed Pardiwala (pictured). He was......



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