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Sexual slavery, forced marriage, conjugal slavery: problems around collecting the voices of the victims

Courts distort the voices of victims in various ways, making it difficult to piece together the truth.

Sexual slavery, forced marriage, conjugal slavery: problems around collecting the voices of the victims
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The lack of convictions relating to crimes of forced marriage/sexual slavery does not mean that the words of the victims are not true or real.
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Gaëlle Breton-Le Goff

Professeure associée au Département des sciences juridiques de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Cette recherche a été possible grâce au travail de recherche des étudiants de l’UQAM : Emilie Binette, Mathilde Viau-Thassé et André-Philippe Ouellet qui ont été rémunérés grâce au fonds de recherche CRSH.

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