Critical UN report says the legislation is ‘deeply wrong’, subjugates women and shifts the burden of guilt on to the victim
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.
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