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Guardian Politics: Blunkett announces new sex laws
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The home secretary, David Blunkett, today announced the most radical overhaul of sex crime legislation for more than 100 years, aimed at sweeping away the "archaic" laws governing homosexuality, while tightening protections against rapists, paedophiles and other sex offenders.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,843355,00.html
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Guardian Society: New rape laws must protect all
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Leader. Government plans to reform the rape laws will require a cultural shift in the popular perception of 'date rape' as somehow not a real crime.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/comment/0,8146,820686,00.html
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Spiked: Blunkett under the blanket
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Josie Appleton. The White Paper replaces out-of-date laws with a vast bureaucracy of new sexual offences, indicating that New Labour has an obsession with sexual behaviour that more than rivals that of its Victorian forbears.
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DB3F.htm
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Telegraph: Antiquated sex crime laws to be overhauled
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Philip Johnston, home affairs editor. David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, yesterday promised legislation, possibly in the next parliamentary session beginning this autumn, to modernise offences that in some cases date back to the 19th century.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/20/ndisc20.xml
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Telegraph: Blunkett introduces new laws to prevent luring of children
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Colin Brown, political editor. The definition of paedophile behaviour is to be radically extended this week in a bid by ministers to try to prevent the "grooming" of children for sexual abuse. Measures to be unveiled by David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, go far beyond the expected Government response to growing public concern about paedophilia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/17/npaed17.xml
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Telegraph: Britain's gay sex laws are declared unlawful
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Sandra Laville. British laws on homosexual sex were ruled unlawful by the European Court of Human Rights yesterday. The judgment strikes at the heart of legislation regulating sex between homosexuals and obliges the Government to liberalise the gross indecency laws that date back to the 1800s.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/08/01/ngay01.xml
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