Tribal custom demands that a designated male kill a female relative who has been raped, and the law allows only a maximum of three years in prison for such a killing, which Iraqis call "washing the scandal".
Serhiy Taruta, the governor of the eastern Donetsk region, which partially falls under rebel control, said the area's inhabitants would feel "raped" if the law came into effect.
After the Delhi gang-rape, the law was amended to make it more difficult for rapists to get off lightly or escape punishment.
For most familiar crimes (murder, robbery, rape, arson), the law requires that the actor have some guilty state of mind, whether it is intent, recklessness or negligence.
VP candidate Paul Ryan co-sponsored, with Rep Akin, "The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" which sought to limit the definition of rape in the law.
We send people off to school with close to zero information regarding sexual assault, rape, consent and the law.
To make rape a priority in the law, the two groups created the first anti-rape agenda.
Eastwood takes painfully seriously the theme of rape ignored by the law and unpunished.
Both drunk driving and rape are against the law.
In New York, there used to be a so-called marital rape exemption to the law.
In Thailand, for example, a husband couldn't legally rape his wife until the law changed 10 years ago.
