PARIS — France’s Senate gave its final approval on Wednesday to a bill defining rape and other sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act, a move that comes after the landmark drugging and rape trial that shook France and turned Gisèle Pelicot into a global icon.

Senators voted 327-0 in favor of the bill, with 15 abstentions.

The bill was presented in January following the conviction of 51 men for the rape and abuse of Gisèle Pelicot in a case which spurred a national reckoning over rape culture in France.

Marie-Charlotte Garin and Véronique Riotton, lawmakers for the Greens and President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party, respectively, who championed the bill, wrote: “It's time to take action and take a new step forward in the fight against sexual violence.”

The bill states that “

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