http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20201026-232823-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/women-rape-law-and-the-illusory-sex-equality-clause-in-the-bangladeshi-constitution/ Women, Rape Law and the Illusory Sex Equality Clause in the Bangladeshi Constitution Wadud, Psymhe eng 2020-10-26 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Equality Gender Rape Women's Rights Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Earlier in October, a video of a group of men attacking, stripping, and sexually assaulting a woman went viral in Bangladesh. Incidents of rape and sexual assaults like this are a window into understanding the state of  sex-based inequality in a given society. The laws, however, must be taken into account as well, particularly if they reflect an essential male perspective and are written in gender-insensitive terms. I will explain below that in case of Bangladesh,  sex-based inequality gets revealed when an illusory  sex-equality clause of Bangladesh Constitution intersects with the country’s crippled commitment to the Women Convention, and sex-based inequality gets manifested through the retention of colonial-era substantive and procedural legal framework.