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Somalia: Lower house of parliament passes bill on sexual violence
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The Somali Parliament has passed a new law against sexual violence. The country’s criminal code dated back to 1962 and had not been updated since. FRANCE 24's Bastien Renouil met with Sofia Rajab in Nairobi. She is the program manager at the NGO Legal Action Worldwide, an organisation that lobbied S
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