Stop making excuses for sexual violence: repeal harmful laws

Amend harmful and discriminatory laws. This includes:
- Abolishing Articles 326 and 227 bis of the Algerian and Tunisian Penal Codes, respectively
- Repealing Article 488 of Morocco’s Penal Code and no longer distinguishing punishment for perpetrators of rape based on a survivor’s virginity
- Amending the definition of rape to reflect international law by being gender-neutral and not requiring physical violence or its proof
- Adopting a comprehensive law to address gender-based violence
- Recognizing marital rape as a specific criminal offence
- Decriminalizing sexual relations between unmarried consenting adults and same-sex sexual relations, as survivors of sexual violence may be deterred from filing a complaint for fear of being themselves prosecuted.

Ensure accountability and support by
- Making available effective legal remedies that are sensitive to the needs of survivors of sexual violence
- Training police, judges, lawyers and healthcare workers to respond to survivors of sexual violence in a sensitive, confidential, non-discriminatory manner.
- Providing effective social and medical services, including access to emergency contraception and to safe and legal abortions.