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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Marital Rape"”.
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Criminalising Marital Rape in Botswana: The Need for Legal Reform
Marital rape is not a criminal offence in Botswana. This means therefore that, the law of Botswana recognises other forms of rape, except for marital rape. Marital rape is a form of intimate partner violence that the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of violence Against Women refers to as …
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Towards the legal protection of married women: Combating and criminalising marital rape in Kenya
… neglected form of sexual violence in Kenya - marital rape. Drawing from prevailing statistics and testimonies by survivors, it confirms the existence of marital rape in Kenya and delves deeper into the prevailing social and legal dynamics that condone it. On examining the existing legal …
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Where rape does not exist: tracing the unsettled position of marital rape in South Africa through women's recourse-seeking journeys
… addresses the present dearth of research on marital rape in contemporary South Africa by exploring contradictory institutional responses to marital rape in legal, policy, and social contexts. Drawing from an array of academic traditions spanning law, the social sciences and the humanities, as …
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An Evolutionary Perspective of Human Female Rape
This thesis assessed whether rape is an adaptive mating strategy. which was naturally selected for in our ancestral past. It investigated a number of constructs. namely: fertility value; victim-offender relationship; socio-economic status; rape proclivity; actual sexual aggression; and sociosexual …
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Sexual and gender-based violence and its effects on married women: A case of Ngombe compound in Lusaka district
… identified by women in their households include marital rape, rape, defilement and incest. The causes and factors of violence identified include alcohol abuse, peer pressure, financial misunderstanding, jealousy, bride price, biased laws and above all, traditions issues. Interestingly, the lack …
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Sexual and gender-based violence and its effects on married women: A case of Ngombe compound in Lusaka district
… identified by women in their households include marital rape, rape, defilement and incest. The causes and factors of violence identified include alcohol abuse, peer pressure, financial misunderstanding, jealousy, bride price, biased laws and above all, traditions issues. Interestingly, the lack …
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Daughters of Eve : violence against women in Pakistan
… such as honour killings, acid burnings and marital rape are also quite common. There are several absurd practices such as exchanging of women to settle tribal disputes and selling them to payoff debt, which depict the treatment of women as commodities. The violence against women goes …
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An investigation of the causes of gender based violence in Kwa-Nongoma area
… including trafficking in women and girls, rape, wife abuse, sexual abuse of children, and harmful cultural practices and traditions that irreparably damage girls and women’s reproductive and sexual health. Additionally, the results proved that the majority of GBVcase are directed towards …
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Domestication of the protocol to the African Charter on the rights of women in Africa: the Nigerian religio-cultural perspective
… of wife beating; forced sexual intercourse/marital rape; absence of women's right to divorce; and refusal to consider legal options when resolving cases of abuse and violence experienced by women in marriage. In order to develop a proposed model for the domestication of the Protocol within …
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Risk Factors for Sexual Coercion in Male Batterers
… female participants reported that their partners raped them during the past year. Furthermore, results from correlational analyses indicate that level of male physical violence and male beliefs about wife beating are risk factors for sexual coercion within the context of a violent relationship. …