Press Conference: Reem Alsalem - červen 2025 Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls - UN Human Rights Council

Reem Alsalem mentioned the following during the press conference on June 26, 2025 (starting at 18:45): 

"Burden of proof according to international law in any case must stress on the perpetrator and not on the victim because otherwise we actually revictimize the victim".

"Some of models fail to take account of systemic power inbalances that exist between men and women and therefore it risks veponizing the concept of consent, perphaps without intending, against the victims in criminal proceedings. That happens for example when the courts, even if they have a sort of consent specific model, focus too much on the victim´s behaviour rather on the perpetrator´s actions, or actually fail to even look at whether we had a course of context in the first place that perpetuates impunity and context that ignored the complex trauma that may have resulted."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWdedbcI23E