{"id":34345,"date":"2019-03-06T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34345"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:23:12","slug":"report-denmark-has-a-pervasive-rape-culture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34345","title":{"rendered":"Report: Denmark has a &#8216;pervasive rape culture&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Denmark has a &#8220;pervasive rape culture&#8221; caused by its failure to address victims&#8217; grievances, antiquated laws and its reluctance to prosecute rapists, Amnesty International said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2019\/03\/denmark-rape-culture-exposed\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> released Tuesday. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The human rights group&#8217;s report said &#8220;flawed legislation&#8221; and &#8220;an insidious culture of victim blaming&#8221; had resulted in &#8220;endemic impunity for rapists in the country&#8221;. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It added that while gender equality has been achieved in many areas of Danish society, authorities must do more to address sexual violence &#8212; pointing to the <a href=\"https:\/\/eige.europa.eu\/rdc\/eige-publications\/gender-equality-index-2017-measurement-framework-of-violence-against-women\" target=\"_blank\">2017 Gender Equality Index<\/a> by the European Institute for Gender Equality, which said Denmark is home to the highest prevalence of violence against women, including sexual violence, of any European Union member state. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Denmark has a &#8220;pervasive rape culture&#8221; caused by its failure to address victims&#8217; grievances, antiquated laws and its reluctance to prosecute rapists, Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday. The human rights group&#8217;s report said &#8220;flawed legislation&#8221; and &#8220;an insidious culture of victim blaming&#8221; had resulted in &#8220;endemic impunity for rapists in the country&#8221;.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}