Deeply Talks: Ending Marry-Your-Rapist Laws

Published: Aug. 31, 2017, 3:28 p.m.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, Women & Girls Managing Editor Megan Clement speaks with Lina Abirafeh, director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University, and Women & Girls reporter Elspeth Dehnert, about the end of marry-your-rapist laws in the Middle East and North Africa, and what is next for gender-based violence campaigners. For more information on issues affecting women & girls in the developing world, visit www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls and subscribe to our weekly emails.