According to an article in today’s Guardian, and the UN’s annual state of world population report, twenty countries - including Russia, Thailand and Venezuela - still allow rapists to escape criminal prosecution by marrying their victims. Dima Dabbous, whose research is cited in the report, said the laws reflected a culture “that does not think women should have bodily autonomy and that they are the property of the family. It’s a tribal and antiquated approach to sexuality and honour mixed together”. Whenever men want to control women’s freedom, behaviour, aspirations, sexuality or reproductive cycle, they can always find a biblical or koranic verse to support their misogyny.
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