Defining rape under the European Convention on Human Rights: Torture, consent and equality

Rethinking Rape Law: International and Comparative Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 109-121

  Londono, Patricia ^a,b  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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