Rape and sexual assault
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Indian police shoot dead four men suspected of Hyderabad rape
The men had been in police custody and were shot near the scene of the crime during a reconstructionIndian pol…
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India: woman set on fire on way to testify against alleged rapists
Woman left with 70% burns in latest attack as film director’s tweets on rape cause outcry An Indian woman has …
- India, Rape and sexual assault, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Protests escalate in India over gang-rape and murder of woman
MPs speak out in parliament and demonstrators take to streets over killing of 27-year-old vetOutrage has conti…
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‘THEY.ARE.WASTED’: Wellington poster campaign aims to prevent sexual assault
Consent campaign in New Zealand capital uses slogan: ‘Don’t guess the yes’As the festive season gets under way…
- Afghanistan, Child rights, Global development, Rape and sexual assault, South and Central Asia, World news
Afghanistan paedophile ring may be responsible for abuse of over 500 boys
Social workers claim teachers and local officials are implicated, and believe thousands more children may have…
- Bangladesh, Conflict and arms, Culture, Documentary films, Film, Global development, Rape and sexual assault, Sexual violence, Society, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘We lay like corpses’: Bangladesh’s 1970s rape camp survivors speak out | Lucy Lamble
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during …
- Culture, Delhi, India, Life and style, Rape and sexual assault, Society, South and Central Asia, Stage, Theatre, Women, World news
Sex tapes and acid attacks: Anupama Chandrasekhar, the playwright shocking India
Her dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she’s reworked Ibsen’s Ghosts, taking…
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Labour’s #MeToo moment eats away at Jacinda Ardern’s most prized asset – trust | Alison Mau
New Zealand prime minister’s credentials at home and abroad as a new kind of leader all hang on her next moveI…
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India’s government fails to act on violence against women and girls | Letters
42 female academics and activists on a teenage rape survivor’s struggle for justiceAs a teenage rape survivor …