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Old Sep 2nd, 2008, 04:55 PM   #22 (permalink)  
underthedome
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In the U.S. you don't need 4 witnesses for rape to occur. Nor are rape victims viewed as the one who should feel shame after being raped nor are their families shamed.

When looking at a list like this and comparing countries you need to keep in mind how a rape victim is treated by the society and the system of each country. That is going to figure into the number of women who come in to report that they were in fact rape. Women who are raped in the U.S. are much more likely to report it than those raped in Pakistan for those very reasons.






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