"Stop Shaming Gender-Based Violence Survivors"
from Amnesty International Human Rights Blog
By Heather Schultz, Activist
When a woman or girl survives gender-based violence, you would think
that she could expect justice. If she survives a rape, for example, you
would think she could expect that the perpetrator would be prosecuted
for his crime… not that he could marry her to avoid prosecution if she
is under 18. Yet, this is exactly the law in Algeria and Tunisia.
And in Morocco, the severity of punishment of the rapist depends not on
his crime, but on whether the survivor was a virgin or not!The discriminatory treatment of sexual violence survivors in legislation across the Maghreb region is a central focus point of Amnesty International’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign.
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