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FROM COLLECTIVE ACTION TO LAW
When organising changes the law.
Three examples connecting collective action with changes in law. No reform is the work of one person alone.
Historical summaries · sources checked 8 October 2026 · not legal advice.
Greece · 2019
Making consent count in rape law
The action
Women’s groups and Amnesty International pressed for reform through advocacy, public criticism and mobilisation. Amnesty submitted analysis during the consultation on Article 336.
The change
On 6 June 2019, the government amended the proposal to recognise sex without consent as rape, without requiring physical violence.
What we can learn
Legal recognition needs effective implementation and access to justice. This account concerns the 2019 reform, not a complete statement of today’s criminal law.
Read the underlying sources, distinguish a campaign’s demand from the final text, and ask organisations what they need today. A new provision does not guarantee protection on its own.