カテゴリー: Rape and sexual assault
The men had been in police custody and were shot near the scene of the crime during a reconstructionIndian police have shot dead the four men accused of the brutal gang rape of a young vet in Hyderabad in circumstances that have been described as “susp…
Woman left with 70% burns in latest attack as film director’s tweets on rape cause outcry An Indian woman has been set on fire on her way to a court hearing to testify against two men who had allegedly raped her.The 23-year-old is in a critical conditi…
MPs speak out in parliament and demonstrators take to streets over killing of 27-year-old vetOutrage has continued to grow in India over the gang-rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman, with protesters taking to the streets and politicians calling for …
Consent campaign in New Zealand capital uses slogan: ‘Don’t guess the yes’As the festive season gets under way, Wellington police are peppering bars and clubs with stringent messaging about sexual consent, using the slogan: “Don’t guess the yes.”The ca…
Social workers claim teachers and local officials are implicated, and believe thousands more children may have been targetedA paedophile ring involved in the abuse of at least 546 boys from six schools has been discovered in Afghanistan’s Logar provinc…
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independenceIn 1971, during the nine-month war that gave Bangladesh its independence from then West Pakistan, four sister…
Her dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she’s reworked Ibsen’s Ghosts, taking out the syphilis and putting in the Delhi bus gang rape of 2012Anupama Chandrasekhar isn’t one to shy away from a tough subject. The Indian p…
New Zealand prime minister’s credentials at home and abroad as a new kind of leader all hang on her next moveIt’s just shy of a year ago that Jacinda Ardern stood in the UN general assembly and spoke in support of the #MeToo movement. There was spontan…
42 female academics and activists on a teenage rape survivor’s struggle for justiceAs a teenage rape survivor demanding justice battles for her life (Politician accused of rape expelled from BJP, 1 August), we are shocked and outraged at the Indian gov…