Time to talk about rape

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7280.232

BMJ 2001;322:232 ( 27 January )

Letters

Time to talk about rape

Women must be free to take charge of their own lives

Joint initiatives can improve services for complainants of sexual assault

Women must be free to take charge of their own lives

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EDITOR $---$ A campaign against rape is needed that is based on the human rights of women in their own right rather than on theirrelationship to the men in theirlives.

Although I am pleased to see rape on the agenda for discussion, I feel that the approach taken by MacDonald fails to reflectthe reality of women's lives in the countries she mentions.¹It is useless to say that men should remember that women are theirmothers, wives, and daughters when husbands, fathers, grandfathers,and brothers commit a large proportion of rape and violence againstwomen. The family home may well be the least safe place for awoman to be. It is common in some communities for a woman to beforced into marriage with her rapist as a means of safeguardingwhat is regarded as the familyhonour.

In a study of convicted perpetrators of child . . . [Full text of this article]

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