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A 17-year-old girl, who said she was raped by her friend, sits with other women at La Maison Rose, a shelter for women and girls who have fled abuse, rape, forced marriage and other trauma in Dakar, Senegal, a country where rape was a misdemeanor and not a crime on January 7, 2020. Widely publicized cases of rape in Senegal paved the way for the change in the law. After a unanimous vote in parliament to criminalize rape, President Macky Sall signed the decree into law on Jan. 10. Previously, rape drew a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and campaigners say convictions were rare. The new law sets a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
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