marital rape
Isn’t it high time already that we finally stop viewing women as objects, and start seeing them as human beings who can decide for themselves?
How do the authorities expect women to file a complaint when their perpetrator is in the house regulating their movement round the clock?
Why it is important to have gender equality in law and how change in laws can lead to social change?
Misogynist scripts with a sweat-inducing rant and sexist punches tend to find their way to Kartik Aaryan.
Lack of sexual agency could also mean getting little to no intimacy from your partner and having no say in it. How many women can say confidently that they can demand sex from their partner without any inhibition?
India is one of the many countries in the world which has not yet made marital rape illegal. The existing law on rape in India has an exception where rape within a marriage or at home, perpetrated by the husband, is not a crime.
Since the matter fell within the mandate of the legislation, the court cannot pass judicial order in this case. Anuja Kapur’s plea wanted the crime of marital rape to be recognised as a legitimate ground for a civil dispute.
Advocate Anuja Kapur has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday to make marital rape ground for divorce and seek the government to frame laws to make it a punishable offense.
In a path-breaking statement yesterday, the Delhi High Court observed that marriage does not imply blanket consent for physical relations…
While hearing a plea on marital rape, Delhi High Court said that marriage does not mean that a woman is always consenting…
In a breakthrough decision, Sweden has adopted a law requiring people to get explicit consent before sexual contact, otherwise, it…
India is one of the 36 countries in the world where marital rape is still not considered a crime, despite…
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