‘Enforcing anti-rape, honour killing laws a real challenge’

The War Against Rape (WAR), expressed immense pleasure on passing of the Anti-Rape Laws (Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2014 and the Anti-Honor Killing Bill, a day earlier at a joint session of the parliament.

The organisation, in a statement released on Friday said the passage of the Anti-Rape Bill would ultimately benefit rape survivors. Court cases could now be decided in three months, as compared to the 5-7 years’ period previously.

Medical testing and extraction of DNA of both victim and perpetrator would be made mandatory, maintained the statement quoting a clause from the law.  

WAR, while congratulating the government and WARs ally organisations for their untiring contribution, hoped that it would encourage more rape survivors to come forward to report rape crimes.

The next most important step after passing of the bills was immediate implementation, the organisation added. WAR urged the government to ensure the law’s effective execution in order to reduce crimes of sexual violence against women, children and transgender community.