EU Parliament Pushes for Unified Rape Law

0:00It's April 28th. This is Global News Today, powered by AI bringing you what matters globally. European Parliament lawmakers just voted in favor of an only yes means yes, definition for rape, pushing the European Commission to create uniform. Rules across the EU. This comes after the EU said its first minimum standards against violence toward women earlier this year, but they dropped a shared rape definition due. To push back from some member states. The new push clarifies that silence, no resistance, or even past relationships don't count as consent, and it spotlights trauma reactions like freezing up in fear or going into fond mode as survival instincts, not agreement. Right now, EU nations have a messy mix of rape laws, France just added informed consent after a big trial last year, Germany looks for no, no, while. Places like Austria stick to force, and countries including Bulgaria, Hungary, and others haven't even signed the key Istanbul treaty with Latvia, pulling out recently, lawmakers

1:03passed it 447 to 160, with conservatives in far right mostly against calling out deep-rooted rape, culture that excuses too much, now the balls in the Commission's court to make real change stick.