Rape

Guwahati: Hundreds of Assamese women on Friday hit the street of Dhing in central Assam demanding justice for a minor who was gang raped by a group of suspected Muslim migrants on 22 August 2024 while she was returning home…

In a shocking incident, a 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered on August 14 at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. This case has not only shocked the medical community but also the entire nation, triggering a…

The U.S. is reportedly opposing the resolution over language on reproductive health for victims of rape.  by Jake Johnson, staff writer for Common Dreams In what critics denounced as the Trump administration’s latest attack on women’s rights across the globe, U.S.…

In their talks at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo on 10 December 2018, the co-laureates, Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege urged concerted global action to stop rape and sexual violence as weapons of war. Dr Denis Mukwege has…

We speak to world-renowned Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy about the increasing incidence of rape in India, as police there say they have arrested the main suspect in an alleged gang rape and murder of a teenage girl. Dhanu…

Daniela Hirsch, 34, is a Chilean lawyer, lifelong humanist and married with a daughter. If anyone does not know what I am talking about, I am referring to the case of the girl in Spain who was raped by five…

“I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore.” Helen Reddy sang those words in 1972, providing an anthem to the rising women’s movement. Forty-five years later, the song could serve as the score to a movie…

By Phil Harris for InDepthNews Do legal systems around the world give women and girls true protection from rape and other forms of sexual violence? Do the victims of rape and sexual violence have access to real justice if violence…

Activists and the victims of the Darfur genocide are calling on the international community to do more to end the on-going violence against women and children in the Darfur region of Sudan. Women and children as young as seven years…

Human Wrongs Watch 09 February 2015 (RT)* — Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, said the US-led invasion of Iraq was a mistake and helped to create the Islamist State militant group. He also blamed regional powers for making the…