French lawmakers are debating a major change to how rape is defined in the country’s penal code – an amendment that would make it clear that sex without consent is a crime.

By Catherine Porter and Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from Paris Many countries require that consent be given before sex — and have written that into their rape laws. France is not among them.

Here in France, a proposal to change the wording of France's laws in regard to rapre goes to a commision of MPs starting today. Hotely debated, the next bill would add the notion of consent to the ...

France’s enlightened sexual politics supposedly ... the government inscribed consent in its law in 2017. Although rape laws ...

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In French law, rape is defined as an act of sexual penetration by violence ... The Avignon Judicial Courthouse in Avignon, France, on Sept. 25, 2024. (Lily Radziemski/Courthouse News) On Thursday ...

As the French Parliament debates adding the notion of consent to the penal code, Genie Godula welcomes Cécile SIMMONS, Researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Her focus is on misogyny ...

Question of consent Gisèle is at the centre of the most significant rape trial France has seen in decades ... a professor of criminal law at the University of Nanterre. “Their whole life ...

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It has shocked France, coming on the heels of another mass rape trial involving a man who ... was not Le Scouarnec's first brush with the law. In 2005, he was convicted of possession of child ...