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LIBYA
(CONTINUED)
Ending Sex Discrimination in the Law
EQUALITY NOW – BEIJING+25
opportunities in all areas and be subject to the same public duties and obligations, without
distinction on the grounds of religion, belief, language, wealth, gender, kinship, political
opinions, social status, or tribal, regional or familial loyalty.
PARAGUAY
Paraguay Penal Code:
Article 137. (1) The man who persuaded a woman of fourteen to
sixteen years of age to perform extramarital intercourse, will be
punished with penalty of fine.
Note: Article 137 of the Paraguay Penal Code is known as an
‘estupro’ provision which prescribes a lower penalty for sexual
offences against adolescent girls between the ages of 14 - 16
than for rape of a child or a woman. Estupro provisions too
often result in impunity for rapists when the victim is between
14 and 16 years old. Such estupro provisions are common across
many Latin American countries, including Bolivia.
Take Action – Paraguay
President: Mario Abdo Benítez
Palacio de Gobierno,
El Paraguayo Independiente entre O’leary
y Ayolas
PARAGUAY
Email: paraguay@un.int (Mission to the
UN in New York)
Twitter: @MaritoAbdo
Facebook: facebook.com/MaritoAbdo2018/
Chapter III of the Constitution of Paraguay: Article 47. The State will guarantee to all
inhabitants of the Republic: 1. Equality in access to justice, for which effect it will level the
obstacles that would prevent it; 2. Equality before the laws ... Article 48. Men and women
have equal civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights.
SINGAPORE
Penal Code:
Chapter XVI. Offences Affecting the Human Body.
Article 375. Rape.
(1) Any man who penetrates the vagina of a woman with his penis —
(a) without her consent; or
(b) with or without her consent, when she is under 14 years of age,
shall be guilty of an offence….
Take Action – Singapore
President Halimah Yacob
Orchard Road Istana 238823
SINGAPORE
Email: halimah_yacob@istana.gov.sg
singapore@un.int (Mission to the UN in
New York)
Twitter: @govsingapore
(1A) Any man (A) who penetrates, with A’s penis, the anus or mouth of
another person (B) —
(a) without B’s consent; or
(b) with or without B’s consent, when B is below 14 years of age,
shall be guilty of an offence.”....
(4) No man shall be guilty of an offence under subsection (1)(b) or (1A)(b) for an act of
penetration against his wife with her consent.
Article 376A. Sexual Penetration of Minor Under 16.
(1) Any person (A) who
(a) penetrates, with A’s penis, the vagina, anus or mouth, as the case may be, of a
person under 16 years of age (B); . . .