Country Finland
Year 2019
Type of Measure Institutional mechanisms
Form of Violence Violence against women and girls

Brief Description


The Minister of Justice founded a working group to examine the legal requirements for changing the Criminal Code to include the absence of consent as a key element of rape crimes. Women’s organizations and women’s rights activists have advocated for amending the Criminal Code to include the absence of consent as a key element of rape crimes (the amendment of the law is also part of the Council for Gender Equality’s Government Programme Objectives for 2019–2023).

Source of Information

Finland's submission for National Review for Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, Beijing+25, 2019, p.3.