However, the child sexual abuse law with its definition of who is a child has increased the age of consent for sex from 16 years to 18 years, echoed by similar changes in the rape law. This paper revisits the debates on the age of consent in India in the late nineteenth century. It...
Age of Consent and Child Marriage in Indiagender identitiesgender imagesgender equalityAnti-colonial struggles have been narrowly interpreted so far, in terms of political self-determination in the making of sovereign nation-states. However, the impressive historical literature on Indian child marriage ...
2012, in India, no consensual sex consent can be given by a woman below 18 years of age. In India consensual sex with wife is allowed above the age of 16 years ( a paradox legally as marriage age is 18 years).4, 5 The basis for legal provision in fixing age of consent appears to...
This study is a pooled analysis of previous GWAS data, which is a secondary analysis and does not require ethical permission and informed consent. 2.2. SNP selection Firstly, we chose SNPs which were strongly (P < 5 × 10−8) associated with AFSI and LNSP and with a minor allele ...
2.a period of human life, measured by years from birth, when a person is regarded as capable of assuming certain privileges or responsibilities:the age of consent. 3.the particular period of life at which a person becomes qualified or disqualified for something:to be over the age for militar...
Recent changes to age-of-consent legislation in Canada have prompted debates focusing on youth sexuality and queer sexuality. Using as a backdrop similar d
Additionally, almost 1.5 million girls under the age of 18 were married in India has the most child brides in the world. Although considerable progress has been made by the country in reducing the total fertility rate, concurrent population momentum has led India to surpass China to become the...
Violence against women, such as sexual violence, is a major public health concern and a violation of women’s basic human rights [1]. Sexual violence includes any sexual act or attempt to perform such acts without consent, as well as unwanted sexual advances and remarks, regardless of the re...
“In 1962, the American Law Institute recommended that the legal age of consent to sex- that is, the age below which sex is defined as statutory rape- be dropped in every state to age 10 (Katchadourian and Lund 1972: 439).In fact, until the mid 1960s, the legal age of consent in ...
mature 20 year old in this modern age still require the consent of father to marry? hkreform.gov.hk 在現代 社會,一名成熟的 20 歲人士結婚 時,是否仍需徵得父親的同意? hkreform.gov.hk The only difference is, Silver Apples seem to be even more ahead of its time; after 40 years, well...