11.   Both were responding to the sharp increase in the number of reported cases of violence against women, including rape and marital rape last year.

12.   Delegates noted strong planks calling for prosecution of all forms of domestic violence, including marital rape.

13.   Forty cases were assaults, such as battering, strangling, physical and sexual abuse, rape and marital rape.

14.   He was sentenced to five years for marital rape.

15.   In the case of marital rape, prosecution is avoided also if the husband or wife pardons the offending spouse in writing or by continuing to live together.

16.   Rep. Rodolfo Albano, the House majority leader, said some Muslim congressmen objected to marital rape, which is a new concept in Philippine law.

17.   Reports of incest, sexual harassment and marital rape also are appearing.

18.   She said the association supported the efforts of the Agency for National Legal Development to prepare an academic document on legal protection for marital rape victims.

19.   Since then, Ireland has enacted laws covering separation, child support and protection, conjugal rights, marital rape, recognition of foreign divorces and adoptions.

20.   She noted relatively few countries had outlawed genital mutilation and marital rape.