The French Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill defining rape and sexual assault as any non-consensual act, making France the latest European country to enshrine the principle of consent in law.
The proposal, presented in January after a landmark trial that saw 51 men convicted of abusing Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious, passed in the Senate by 327 votes, with 15 abstentions.
