“One in three autistic women has been a victim of rape”: this alarming figure was raised at a joint meeting on Wednesday 29 November involving the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) and the Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) committee. This rate, considerably higher than that of one woman in twenty in the general population, was put forward by Ana Peláez, President of the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, to...