カテゴリー: Rape and sexual assault
Case prompts nationwide protests and further highlights country’s endemic problem of sexual violenceFour men have been charged with the gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in India, a case that prompted nationwide protests and drew a fres…
Legislation will speed up rape trials, protect identity of victims and create a sex offender registerPakistan’s president has approved a tough new anti-rape law which includes the establishment of special courts to speed up rape trials and the chemical…
New provincial commander says he is concerned by allegations of rape and sexual assault by officers in Alotau TownTwo policemen have been charged with rape allegedly committed inside a police station in Alotau Town, in Papua New Guinea’s south-east, bu…
There are still those who ask ‘what was she wearing’. An urgent conversation is needed about toxic masculinity and consentThere has been growing outrage among Bangladeshi citizens over the past two weeks at a string of gruesome gang rapes and sexual as…
Girls in Uttar Pradesh targeted in assaults aiming to reinforce caste and gender hierarchies, say activistsA spate of brutal rapes and murders of young girls in a single district of India over the past month has provoked outrage and exposed the ongoing…
Girls in Uttar Pradesh targeted in assaults aiming to reinforce caste and gender hierarchies, say activistsA spate of brutal rapes and murders of young girls in a single district of India over the past month has provoked outrage and exposed the ongoing…
Investigator says woman raped in front of her children shouldn’t have driven aloneThe gang-rape of a woman in front of her children after her car broke down on a motorway has prompted outrage and protests in Pakistan, with anger further fuelled by poli…
Ex-chair of DB Group Kim Jun-ki ‘forgot his responsibilities’, says Seoul courtThe former head of a South Korean conglomerate who was convicted of raping his maid and sexually assaulting a secretary has been given a suspended sentence.Kim Jun-ki, the 7…
Until India accepts brutality begets brutality, plague of sexual violence will go onIt was a grisly end to a story that has been a stain on India for almost eight years. The hanging on Friday morning of the four men who carried out the 2012 gang-rape a…
Rape and murder of woman in 2012 shocked India and brought protesters out on to the streetsA death warrant has been issued for the four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi, which galvanised protests across …
The shootings are not a deterrent, but the work of a vengeful patriarchy that could encourage people to take the law into their own handsOn 27 November, a group of men raped, smothered and then burned the body of a vet in her 20s near the Indian city o…
Australian federal police say livestreaming of children performing sexual acts marks ‘alarming shift’ Australian paedophiles are paying as little as A$15 for children to perform sexual acts online while being filmed in the Philippines, according to the…
Government inaction drives Swati Maliwal of Delhi Women’s Commission to take a stand“Stop rape. Stop rape.” The chants rang out over the Samta Sthal memorial as hundreds of women from Delhi and beyond raised their fists in a show of collective rage. Am…
Woman suffered 95% burns in latest case of violence against women to cause public outrageA 23-year-old rape victim who was set on fire by a gang of men, which included her alleged rapist, has died in a New Delhi hospital, the doctor treating her said.T…
Killings of a six-year-old girl and a vet are just two examples of a problem that appears to be getting worseHer family called her Twinkle. In the dry desert brush of Rajasthan where her body was found, blood spattering her tiny legs and brown school u…