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TAG: Western Europe

UN aid worker suspended for leaking report on child abuse by French troops

The French Army was plunged into a scandal after a UN report came into public in the last few weeks. While French prosecutors announced a criminal investigation to punish peacekeeping troops at Central African Republican accused of raping children and exchanging food for sex, the investigator nominated by the UN to review the case was suspended.

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Spain withdraws Bill aimet at limiting abortion right

The Spanish government has decided to withdraw a bill that would only allow abortion in cases of rape or significant health risk to the mother or fetus. Read more on BBC and El País.

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A pregnant, suicidal rape victim fought Ireland’s new abortion law. The law won

It sounded like a strawman, until it wasn’t. Photograph: Cathal Mcnaughton / Getty There is one thing that suicidal rape victims need: immediate assistance.But for one young woman in Ireland who was pregnant and seeking an abortion after reportedly being attacked, the only thing her government offered was the slow, bureaucratic violation of her humanity. […]

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France’s compromising position: Why a new law to criminalise punters rather than prostitutes is inflaming French passions

France’s Parliament approved a law that punishes clients who buy sexual services from prostitutes. SPW is following the debate. The case has turned a big issue among French society, according to “The Independent”. Read here. “Libération” is also following the case with a blog created specifically to discuss it. Here (In French). Click here to […]

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The limits of German law allowing a “new third-gender”

Read New Statesman’s article about a German law that lets a birth certificate to be left blank in cases where the child is neither obviously male nor female. “it will take far more than a bureaucratic fix to remove the stigma of “abnormalit”, says the author. Click here. Here an article from Advocate.com that reminds […]

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