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France urged to place consent at centre of rape law reform

A wall collage reads "the will and determination to move this society forward" alongside an image of Gisèle Pelicot, whose testimony in a rape case against her husband and strangers he met online became a catalyst for reform of France's rape laws. AFP - CHRISTOPHE SIMON

In the wake of the Pelicot mass rape trial, a French parliamentary report has called for a fundamental change to the country's legal definition of rape, making consent its central element.

The report, published on Tuesday by the National Assembly’s delegation for women’s rights, described the case in which Gisèle Pelicot was drugged and raped repeatedly by both her husband and strangers he recruited online as a watershed moment.

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