{"id":22828,"date":"2020-09-02T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T04:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=22828"},"modified":"2020-09-03T22:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:00:35","slug":"denmark-to-make-consent-the-basis-for-determining-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/chief-editors-choice\/denmark-to-make-consent-the-basis-for-determining-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark to make consent the basis for determining rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>The Danish government has announced plans to reform sexual violence laws to make consent rather than violence the basis for determining rape. \u201cWe are moving from a system where there had to be coercion and violence for it to be rape, to one where there must be consent,\u201d justice minister, Nick Haekkerup, told a press conference. A sexual partner could express their consent verbally or \u201cindirectly\u201d according to the circumstances, the minister added, explaining that \u201csexual language can go beyond words\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s groups welcomed the planned legal change. The Federation of Danish women hailed a \u201chistoric victory for legality and the right to take sexual decisions\u201d. A similar law has been in place in Sweden since 2018. The number of rape convictions rose by 75% to 333 last year. Denmark\u2019s legal change, which has majority support in parliament, is expected to be adopted by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/01\/denmark-announce-plans-to-reform-sexual-violence-laws\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Danish government has announced plans to reform sexual violence laws to make consent rather than violence the basis for determining rape. \u201cWe are moving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594,76],"tags":[2029,6771,4265],"class_list":["post-22828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","category-recap-en","tag-denmark","tag-determine","tag-rape","wpcat-5594-id","wpcat-76-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22829,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828\/revisions\/22829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}