Culture Country outlaws rape - in [current year]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42604496

In the past, a victim's family could force them to marry their rapist to avoid being shamed.

Rapists now stand to face at least 30 years in prison.

Somaliland declared itself independent from Somalia in 1991 but is not internationally recognised as a country. There is still no law against rape in Somalia.

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Somaliland's speaker of parliament, Bashe Mohamed Farah, told the BBC that rape cases have risen and he hoped the new law would help stop that trend.

"Nowadays we have seen even people carrying out gang rapes," he said.

"The main emphasis of the new act is to completely stop rape."

The new law has come in after years of lobbying by children and women's rights advocates.

Faisa Ali Yusuf of the Women's Agenda Forum told the BBC they have been waiting for such legislation for a very long time.

The BBC's Anne Soy explains that the new law comes within the context of the self-declared republic being keen to be seen internationally as a viable democracy with functioning institutions.

 

[Dysnomia]

Well I know where I'm going to vacation this year. Somaliland. Because rape is illegal. I'll be 100% safe.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

@Pine Tar needs to find somewhere else to live

 

[Sperglord Dante]

>Rape is legal in Somalia

Any of you interested in going on a tour in Somalia? For non-rape reasons of course.

burn the coal, have 1 in 20 chances of getting infected with AIDS

 

[CWCchange]

Its funny how China has basically stolen the British rule book to Imperialism when we basically fucked China hard with the Opium wars.

The Manchus were always fucked, even after conquering the relative prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

burn the coal, have 1 in 20 chances of getting infected with AIDS
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If you don't get AIDS, you'll get afflicted by plague, especially in Madagascar.

 

[Andrew Neiman]

I don't know anything about Somaliland, but some African states use these sorts of decrees as a free way to get brownie points and grab headlines. The Gambia "banned" corporal punishment in schools several years ago, with absolutely no attempt made actually to alter anyone's behavior. Even when reforms are attempted in good faith, it's difficult enough to get anyone to hold anyone else to the rules because everyone got their jobs through nepotism or something akin to it.

 

[Tookie]

I think if a self-declared indepent region in your country work harder than you in those issues , you might at least know how exceptional country you are.

Somaliland has been operating as a de facto independent country for decades. They actually have a semblance of a working government and rule of law and plug along ignoring the rest of Somalia.

 

[Computery Guy]

The Manchus were always fucked, even after conquering the relative prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.


If you don't get AIDS, you'll get afflicted by plague, especially in Madagascar.

Madagascar has the plague? I thought they always SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING when a pandemic broke out?