...rmation of the foetus, deeming it "incompatible" with the Constitution. This had led to all abortions in Poland being prohibited except in cases of rape and incest, or when the mothe...
...in 2019 she was one of the winners of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for the awareness campaign "A White Dress Does Not Cover the Rape" to abolish marital sexual vi...
...s in cases of domestic violence. The law also fails to provide a definition of domestic violence and does not consider as crime the rape of a woman by her husband, rape within the marriage is not re...
...se their legal definitions of rape are not based on lack of cons...in force-based definitions of rape. “States must take ful...nitions and implementation of rape-related laws. Frequently, the...nd their legal definitions of rape in line with Article 36. Of t...
...public actors (police, courts, judges and public health facilities) treat and respond to this type of violence, defined as "any sexual act such as rape or Sexual abuse or any undesi...
..."A White Dress Does Not Cover the Rape" national campaign which was...l assault, abduction, or statutory rape against a woman, to avoid pen...to its main focus which says that rape is a criminal act and all rap...hite Dress Doesn’t Cover the Rape’’ Campaign was se...
...ll provides for the authorization of abortion when the pregnancy is a danger to the mother’s life or her health, when the pregnancy is generated by rape or incest, when the mother ha...
...ide them with discretion to marry minor girls, under the pretext of preserving the girls and their families ‘honour an reputation (in case of rape, loss of virginity, or simply...
...tance, some countries only tolerate abortion in exceptional circumstances. This is the case in Poland, where abortion is permitted only in cases of rape, incest and severe fetal malf...
...n denounced their working conditions by filing a legal complaint against their employers, three of them for sexual harassment and one for attempted rape. This memorandum was launche...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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