Sexual Violences Laws Becomes New Progressive Breakthrough
- U-Report
The Sexual Violence Crime Law consists of 8 chapters and 93 articles and includes 9 forms of sexual violence, ranging from non-physical sexual harassment, physical sexual harassment, forced contraception, forced sterilization, forced marriage, electronic-based sexual violence, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, to sexual slavery.
The law also accommodates inputs from the coalition of the general public, such as the inclusion of a 'victim trust fund' mechanism.
The law also allows community-based service providers to contribute to the process of mentoring and protecting victims of sexual violence, perpetrators of sexual violence to approach victims from a certain distance and a certain time during the legal process, and regulates the rights of victims, victims' families, witnesses, experts, and companions to ensure the victim's rights are met.
However, the two initial proposals for rape and abortion have been excluded from the Sexual Violence Law because rape will be regulated in the Draft Criminal Code and abortion is already regulated in the Health Law. (ant)