News French woman blamed for divorce because she no longer had sex with husband wins appeal at top European court
News French woman blamed for divorce because she no longer had sex with husband wins appeal at top European court
Jan 24 2025, 5:43 PM
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/23/europe/french-divorcee-sex-husband-wins-appeal-intl/index.html
Quote:A woman, who was blamed by French courts for her divorce because she no longer had sex with her husband, has won an appeal in Europe’s top human rights court, the court said on Thursday, reigniting a debate in France over women’s rights.
The French woman - identified as Ms H.W, born in 1955 - brought her case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2021 after exhausting legal avenues in France almost a decade following the divorce.
The ECHR ruled that the French courts had violated the woman’s right to respect for private and family life.
“In the present case, the Court could not identify any reason capable of justifying this interference by the public authorities in the area of sexuality,” it said in a statement.
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“I hope this decision will mark a turning point in the fight for women’s rights in France,” she said. “It is now imperative that France, like other European countries, such as Portugal or Spain, take concrete measures to eradicate this rape culture and promote a true culture of consent and mutual respect.”
Mhissen said the ECHR ruling has no impact on H.W.’s divorce, which is definitive. However, she said it will have a major impact on French law, preventing French judges from making similar divorce rulings in the future.
“This decision marks the abolition of the marital duty and the archaic, canonical vision of the family,” she said in a statement. “Courts will finally stop interpreting French law through the lens of canon law and imposing on women the obligation to have sexual relations within marriage.”
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H.W.’s case was supported by two French women’s activism groups.
Emmanuelle Piet, the head of one of them, the Feminist Collective Against Rape, said she was delighted.
“Ms. W spent 15 years fighting this battle, and it ended in victory, bravo,” she said. “When you are forced to have sexual relations in marriage, it is rape.”
Disgusting that the French court even tried to make such a judgement.
Edited Jan 24 2025, 5:45 PM by Clover.
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CNN, January 23 2025.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/23/europe/french-divorcee-sex-husband-wins-appeal-intl/index.html
Quote:A woman, who was blamed by French courts for her divorce because she no longer had sex with her husband, has won an appeal in Europe’s top human rights court, the court said on Thursday, reigniting a debate in France over women’s rights.
The French woman - identified as Ms H.W, born in 1955 - brought her case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2021 after exhausting legal avenues in France almost a decade following the divorce.
The ECHR ruled that the French courts had violated the woman’s right to respect for private and family life.
“In the present case, the Court could not identify any reason capable of justifying this interference by the public authorities in the area of sexuality,” it said in a statement.
[...]
“I hope this decision will mark a turning point in the fight for women’s rights in France,” she said. “It is now imperative that France, like other European countries, such as Portugal or Spain, take concrete measures to eradicate this rape culture and promote a true culture of consent and mutual respect.”
Mhissen said the ECHR ruling has no impact on H.W.’s divorce, which is definitive. However, she said it will have a major impact on French law, preventing French judges from making similar divorce rulings in the future.
“This decision marks the abolition of the marital duty and the archaic, canonical vision of the family,” she said in a statement. “Courts will finally stop interpreting French law through the lens of canon law and imposing on women the obligation to have sexual relations within marriage.”
[...]
H.W.’s case was supported by two French women’s activism groups.
Emmanuelle Piet, the head of one of them, the Feminist Collective Against Rape, said she was delighted.
“Ms. W spent 15 years fighting this battle, and it ended in victory, bravo,” she said. “When you are forced to have sexual relations in marriage, it is rape.”
Disgusting that the French court even tried to make such a judgement.
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