The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has sided with three French women who said they were raped when they were aged 13, 14 and 16 and that French authorities did not do enough to protect them.
The ruling, which was handed down on Thursday, is set to add pressure to France's national debate on the inclusion of consent in the law for sexual offences that was reignited last year by the trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men for the repeated rape of Pelicot's drugged wife, Gisèle.
