Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Death Penalty Not the Answer to Bangladesh’s Rape Problem

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Click to expand Image Students protest against an alleged gang-rape and brutal torture of a woman in the southern district of Noakhali, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on October 8, 2020. © 2020 Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury/Sipa via AP Images The Bangladesh government has approved new measures to use the death penalty as punishment for rape, after widespread protests in response to several recent gang rape cases. It’s a bad decision, not only because capital punishment is inherently inhumane and should be abolished, but because it is not a real solution to sexual violence. There is no conclusive evidence…

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