7th November 2017
In our February 2017 advocacy report, The World’s Shame – The Global Rape Epidemic: How Laws Around the World are Failing to Protect Women and Girls from Sexual Violence, we identify seven key gaps in global rape laws and call on governments and policymakers to fix them and to ensure justice for survivors of sexual violence.
The findings illustrate that governments still have a long way to go to transform their laws, policies, and practices into instruments to
- prevent sexual violence
- provide better access to justice for victims (including specialized services), and
- effectively punish sexual violence crimes.