The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights goes against French courts. Advocates called on the government to amend French law “to eradicate this rape culture.”

A French woman took her case to the European Court of Human Rights after she was ruled at fault in her divorce because she had stopped having sex with her husband.

Europe's top human rights court ruled the woman's right to respect for private and family life had been violated when French courts found her solely at fault for her divorce because she withheld sex.