Justice Ayesha Malik Rejects Rape Victim-Blaming, Calls for Fairer Gender-Based Violence Trials
Supreme Court Justice Ayesha Malik has challenged victim-blaming attitudes surrounding sexual violence, stressing the need to change social perceptions that shift responsibility for rape from perpetrators to survivors. She made the remarks while addressing the launch of a judicial bench book designed to guide judges handling rape cases in gender-based violence (GBV) courts. The event…