CRIME & LAW

France Moves to Consent-Based Rape Law

France’s Senate is poised to give final approval to a bill defining rape and other sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act, a decisive shift after a landmark trial that shook the country. Championed by Marie-Charlotte Garin and Véronique Riotton, the measure says consent must be freely given, specific, informed, prior and revocable, and cannot be assumed from silence. The National Assembly broadly backed it last week; the far right opposed. Once published, the law would align France with Germany, Belgium and Spain.

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