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View all search resultsIn a short film set in Lebanon, where marital rape is not a crime, filmmaker Farah Shaer tackles one of Arab society's biggest taboos and highlights the difficulties women face when reporting domestic and sexual violence.
It seems that women’s rights and women’s lives simply don’t matter anymore in Indonesia, to the point that we have to choose between lifelong suffering, death or imprisonment in the unforeseeable event that we become victims of rape or are diagnosed with medical complications during pregnancy.
“Domestic abuse means that [the husband] is forcing his wife to do something without her consent. That’s a form of rape or sexual violence against women that in extreme cases could end in death,” Adriana said on Monday as quoted by kompas.com.
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