JEMTEC

From the past few decades the approach of sexual violence in human rights has focused basically on the abuse of women and girls. But in the meantime sexual offences against men and transgender has increased a lot in prisons and also in other places. The criminal laws in India relating to rape has always been gender specific in which men have always been the perpetrator and women is always the victim of sexual offences. The Justice Verma Committee (2013) which was formed after the famous Nirbhaya gang rape case, recommended gender neutral laws with respect to sexual offences and also the victims. However, ignoring this Government passed criminal law amendment act, 2013 without these much needed reforms. For the last few decades, the common approach to sexual violence has focused mainly on women as a victim. Given that men are usually conceptualized as the sexual aggressor or the perpetrator, however, there has been a growth in research examining male victims’ experiences of the crimi...