As Sexual Violence Intensifies, India Considers Strengthening Its Penalties For Rape

As Sexual Violence Intensifies, India Considers Strengthening Its Penalties For Rape: pA new law strengthening the penalty for rape passed the lower house of India’s Parliament recently, a bright point in India’s still troubled relationship with sexual assault and violence. Should the legislation pass India’s upper house, it would provide an increase of the minimum prison sentence for gang-rape to twenty years, that can be extended [...]/p