Reddit reviews Violence, Law and Women′s Rights in South Asia

Okay, just for shits and giggles.

In the United States:

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/13/us/marital-rape-drive-for-tougher-laws-is-pressed.html (that's right, as recently as 1982 a rape conviction was overturned on the basis that a dude by definition couldn't rape his wife!)

http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentID=32701 - North Carolina exempted husbands from being prosecuted for rape of their wives in 1997!

http://www.crisisconnectioninc.org/pdf/US_History_of_Marital_Rape.pdf (cites its own sources at the end)

http://marriage.about.com/cs/maritalrape/f/maritalrape10.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-02-07-spousalrape-arizona_x.htm - raping your wife is illegal, but way LESS illegal than if you weren't married to her! cool!

In the UK:

http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1991/12.html - they didn't settle this shit until 1991!

In other specific countries:

http://www.oas.org/dil/Sexual_Offences_and_Domestic_Violence_Act_Bahamas.pdf

http://equalitynow.org/english/campaigns/beijing15/report_en.html

http://www.amazon.com/Violence-Womens-Rights-South-Asia/dp/0761997962/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343963433&sr=1-1 and http://newsblaze.com/story/20081014080156zzzz.nb/topstory.html

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/vaw_legislation_2008/expertpapers/EGMGPLVAW%20Paper%20(Karen%20Stefiszyn).pdf

http://freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=383&key=24&parent=23&report=86

http://www.arrow.org.my/publications/ICPD+15Country&ThematicCaseStudies/ThematicCaseStudies/Sexuality&Rights.pdf

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/wha/136102.htm

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/vaw_legislation_2008/expertpapers/EGMGPLVAW%20Paper%20(Karen%20Stefiszyn).pdf

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA15/001/2009/en/34c4959d-8833-4c3e-8b3b-34dfe99c9593/asa150012009en.html

http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/allegedly-false-rape-reports-make-authorities-skeptical-discourage-victims-in-cameroon

http://www.mdg5watch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=155#_edn21

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2010.300070

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/laws_that_discriminate_against_women.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Law-Service-Legitimacy-Catherine-Warrick/dp/0754675874/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343963609&sr=1-1

http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,CEDAW,CONCOBSERVATIONS,GEO,,453778142,0.html

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/01/24/chance-congress-help-haitian-women

http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,4565c22547,4565c25f569,4b7cee7c26,0.html

http://www.amazon.com/International-Approaches-Rape-Geetanjali-Gangoli/dp/1847426204/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343963667&sr=1-1

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/laws_that_discriminate_against_women.pdf

http://www.musawah.org/musawah-thematic-report-article-16-kuwait-and-oman

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2009/wom1743.doc.htm

http://stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/cgi-bin/blogs/sextraffickingandprostitution/2010/05/13/liberias-struggle-against-sexual-violence-in-the-wake-of-conflict/

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=12055

www.ucm.es/info/estpsi/master/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mujeres-en-la-ue-estadisticas.pdf

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/vaw_legislation_2008/expertpapers/EGMGPLVAW%20Paper%20(Karen%20Stefiszyn).pdf

http://www.map-srhr.org/chapters/ch-3-overview-of-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights-in-africa/mali#instruments-and-policies

http://stopvaw.org/sites/3f6d15f4-c12d-4515-8544-26b7a3a5a41e/uploads/Sexualabusefacteng.pdf

http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs5/CEDAW-C-MMR-CO-3.pdf

http://www.musawah.org/musawah-thematic-report-article-16-kuwait-and-oman

http://www.amazon.com/Human-Rights-Watch-World-Report/dp/1583227407/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343963790&sr=1-1

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/nea/136079.htm

http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/aol/search/display/view.w3p;ident=c834c73a-3531-48b0-8040-4450d41d1351;page=0;query=Status%3Ainforce%20CapAct%3A224%20Depth%3A0;rec=0;resUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fstatutes.agc.gov.sg%2Faol%2Fsearch%2Fsummary%2Fresults.w3p%3Bquery%3DStatus%253Ainforce%2520CapAct%253A224%2520Depth%253A0#pr375-he-.

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?page=search&docid=4c84c0fb2&skip=0&query=syria%20marital%20rape

http://www.wccc.tbu.to/news/gaps-in-tongan-rape-law-need-to-be-addressed/

http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8645%3Athe-phenomenon-of-marital-rape&catid=73%3Ahighlights&Itemid=70

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8375291.stm and http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,HRW,,ZMB,494b62e917,0.html

Broadly:

http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/popsyn/PopulationSynthesis1.pdf

http://www.religiousconsultation.org/Special_Features/Amnesty_International_violence_vs_women.htm

http://unicef.org/publications/pub_pon97_en.pdf

And on and on and on and on.