Spain’s lower house of Parliament passed a bill Thursday dubbed the “only yes means yes” law, which requires sexual consent to be explicit, rather than something that can be assumed to have been given through silence or by default.
In the other case, in Manresa, close to Spain’s second-most-populous city, Barcelona, five men were accused of taking turns raping a 14-year-old girl in an abandoned factory, while another watched and masturbated.
They were also convicted of sexual abuse because under Spanish law at the time, the perpetrator must have used violence or intimidated the victim for the act to qualify as rape. But because the victim was in an unconscious state and didn’t fight back, a Spanish courtSpain will join at least 13 other countries in Europe with laws that define rape based on the absence of consent, according to. Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom are countries with versions of a consent law.
About 1 in 20 women ages 15 or older in the European Union have been raped, or about 9 million women, the human rights organization said in 2018. One in 10 women ages 15 or older have experienced some form of sexual violence, it added.
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