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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Helena Alves and Samuel Petrequin

Activists call on France to endorse a consent-based rape definition across the entire European Union

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Activists wearing masks depicting President Emmanuel Macron urged France on Thursday to change its position and endorse a law proposed by the European Union that would define rape as sex without consent in the bloc's 27 countries.

The demonstrators gathered in downtown Paris on the eve of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to apply pressure on the French head of state.

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