Sisters For Change is campaigning for the criminalisation of marital rape as a crime of sexual violence in all the regions and countries where we work.
The map below illustrates the chronology of countries which have repealed the marital rape exception and adopted laws that criminalise marital rape as a crime of sexual violence. Click on the timeline from left to right to see when countries reformed their laws. All dates are given when legislation was passed which fully criminalised marital rape.
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1976 – 1986
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1987 – 1999
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2000 – 2002
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2003 – 2010
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2011 – 2013
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2014 – 2015
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2016 – Present
