KUCHING: Rights groups are urging the government to amend the Penal Code’s definition of rape by the end of this year. Sarawak Women for Women Society (SWWS) says there must be no slowdown in the ...
Bangladesh follows a 150-year-old definition of rape given in the Penal Code, 1860, which happens to be a colonial holdover. Section 375 of the Penal Code defines rape along this line: A man is said ...