Marital rape in Bangladesh context analysis with data

1. Submitted BY
NAME: MD ABDUL HAKIM NOYON
REG:17111002
Course Title : Gender& Development
Course Code:206
Submitted To: NUSRAT JAHAN URMI
Lecturer,
Department of Law and Human Rights

2. RAPE IS RAPE
ILLEGAL RAPE
Or
MARITAL TAPE !!!!

3. Marital rape is any unwanted
sexual acts by a spouse or ex-
spouse, committed without
consent and/or against a
person's will, obtained by force,
or threat of force, intimidation,
or when a person is unable to
consent.
WHAT IS MARITAL RAPE

4. TYPES OF MARITAL RAPE
BATTERING RAPE
OBSESSIVE RAPE
FORCE-ONLY RAPE
https://www.healthyplace.com/abuse/rape/marital-rape-spousal-rape

5. Legal Status of Marital Rape in Bangladesh
Many Countries in this world recognize
Marital Rape as an Offense, But It is not an
offense in Bangladeshi LawSection 375 Of penal
code 1860 makes it
clear "Sexual
intercourse by a man
with his own wife, the
wife not being under
thirteen years of age,
is not rape".

6. Legal Status of Marital Rape in Bangladesh
Section 9 of the Women
and Children Repression
Prevention Act, 2000
nor Nari-O-Shishu
Nirjatan Domon Ain 2003
says nothing about the
legality of marital rape!
There is a vague provision of “ sexual
Abuse” in section(3) of the Domestic
Violence Prevention and Protection
Act 2010 says nothing about the
legality of marital rape!

7. Marital Rape Eyes Of Islam
Our prophet Mohammad
PBUH mentions that,
“never intercourse with
your wives until they
come into a tranquil
mood.”.
Scholar Imam Gajjali says, “Never
intercourse with your wives like a
beast, first make them ready
psychologically.”
So, evidentially violent sexual
conduct is not permissible in the
Islam

8. Statistic IN Bangladesh
In 2013, United Nations (UN)
surveyed on 10,000 plus adult male
from Bangladesh, Srilanka, china
and Indonesia about their sexual
behavior. The report states that
24% of husbands forcefully
committed sex with their wives.
38% of them committed forceful
sex to punish their wives!
Husbands
forcefully
committed sex
with their wives
39%
committed
forceful sex to
punish their
wives!
61%
Husbands forcefully committed sex with their wives
committed forceful sex to punish their wives!
http://futrlaw.org/let-silence-audible-marital-rape-bangladesh/

9. Marital Rape involves prolonged psychological abuse
which is merely reported in Bangladesh. But according to
a recent nationwide survey conducted by the Bangladesh
Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the United
Nations Population Fund, nearly nine out of 10 husbands
abuse their wives in Bangladesh, The survey titled
“Violence Against Women Survey 2011” conducted on
12,600 women randomly chosen across the seven
divisions says an astonishing 87 percent of married
women are abused by their husbands
Statistic IN Bangladesh
http://futrlaw.org/let-silence-audible-marital-rape-bangladesh/

10. MAJOR REASONS OF MARITAL RAPE IN BANGLADESH
 Religious cause
 Illiteracy
 Poverty
 Absence of penal law against marital rape
 Lack of woman empowerment
 Forced and early child marriage

11. According to UN Women’s 2011 Progress of the World’s
Women: In Pursuit of Justice report, out of 179 countries
with available data, 52 had laws against marital rape, while
127 countries did not have laws against marital rape
7/30/2020 https://womanstats.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/violence-against-women-marital-rape/

12.  USA
UK
AUSTRALIA
SWEDEN
BANGLADESH
PAKISTHAN
INDIA
CHAINA
Countries Where Marital Rape
IS Criminal Offense
Countries Where Marital Rape IS
not Criminal Offense

13. Sweden Belarus Turkey Australia Colombia Zombia Chaina Nepal Canada
Column1 9.2 13.1 42 12 11.5 37 89 14 20
9.2
13.1
42
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37
89
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20
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Column1
Marital Rape Rate Chart
https://womanstats.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/violence-against-women-marital-rape/

14. EFFECT OF MARITAL RAPE
•Shock, anxiety and intense fear
•Depression
•Suicidal ideation
•Acute and post-traumatic stress
•disorder (PTSD)
•Fundamental loss of trust

15. “LAST WORD”
MAKE LOVE,
NOT RAPE !

16. REFERENCE
Reference is given in slides
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17. Thank You