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Regulating women’s sexuality is central to restrictive personal laws and helps maintain a male-dominated social order.

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Why legal experts are criticising new clause to punish sex by false promises

Clause 69 of the new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita infantilises women and runs the risk of further criminalising interfaith relationships, experts say.

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In Trump trial, his legal team used discredited myth about how women should react to rape

The former president was held guilty of sexually abusing and defaming journalist E Jean Carroll.

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