US EditionPortugal’s Parliament Votes to Reclassify Rape as Public Crime
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Carla Ferreira, of APAV, explains that anyone can report crimes of rape. Despite this, it reinforces the need to give the victims an active voice about the willingness to follow in criminal proceedings.
The ultra-right and small left-wing parties lead efforts to change the Penal Code, one of the softest in the European Union on sexual assaults
Mediafax More parliamentarians from the Socialist Party in Portugal voted for reclassification, although political training has proved to be absent with regard to other legislative proposals, according to Euronews. The legislative initiative has come from the political party Bloc de Sánga (Esquerda Block), LIVRE and PAN and has passed with the PSD support, but also with the right party Chega. According to the new rules, witnesses can report case…
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