The Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Central Region recorded 2,668 cases of domestic violence in 2016. The figure was a reduction comparing it to...
The Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Central Region recorded 2,668 cases of domestic violence in 2016. The figure was a reduction comparing it to...
A 26 year-old Okada rider has allegedly raped a 50 year old woman in a bush at Mangoase, a small village near Dadieso in the Western region. Sir Joe our correspondent in a report said, the suspect...
India's police say they are seriously investigating allegations that an American woman was drugged and raped by a group of men in her five-star hotel room in the country's capital earlier this year....
More than a quarter of EU residents have said that sex without consent may be justified under certain circumstances, according to a new survey commissioned by the European Commission. Overall, 27...
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has withdrawn a bill that would pardon men convicted of sex with underage girls if they had married them. The government acted just before the controversial...
A British tourist has been arrested in Dubai on charges of extramarital sex after telling police a group of British nationals raped her in the United Arab Emirates, according to a UK-based legal...
A bill which would allow men accused of raping underage girls to be cleared if they marry the girl has been preliminarily backed by Turkish MPs. The government says the bill is aimed at pardoning men...
In this industrial northern state, you can buy footage of a woman being raped for the price of a cheap meal. Al Jazeera found several videos that appeared to depict rape for sale across the state....
Sexual harassment and even violence against female parliamentarians are widespread, a report from a global parliamentary grouping suggests. The study by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is being...
Sexual harassment and even violence against female parliamentarians is widespread, a report from a global parliamentary grouping suggests. The study by the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) is being...
Eight men were found guilty on Monday of waging what prosecutors called an "utterly abhorrent" campaign of sexual violence and intimidation against young girls in the Rotherham area of northern...
Police have arrested a Nigerian national for allegedly raping a 25-year-old Kenyan woman over a period of three months. According to the police, the complainant is a student of a private university...
Sexual harassment, rape, defilement and incest have been on the ascendancy in recent times. Hardly a day passes without some of these heinous crimes being reported in the print media. They are all...
DRC: 'I can't tell my husband I was raped' Some mothers give positive names to the child born from rape Twenty-eight year old Carine* lives in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province in northeastern...
Ghanaian Lawyer, Maurice Ampaw has added his voice to the debate on the recent news on a woman who bit off a Fire officer’s manhood during an interview on UTV’s ‘Waka a waka’. The fire...
Ruth Williams, music reality show, Mentor One contestant, has disclosed that she was raped at age 18 by someone very close to her. The singer recounted that the horrific incident scared her so much...
At least 34,651 cases of rape were reported across India last year, statistics released by the country's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) have revealed. The figures, released on Tuesday, showed...
After drawing widespread criticism, India's tourism and culture minister has backtracked after suggesting that female foreign tourists should not wear skirts in the country. Talking to journalists in...
Each year, 15 million girls marry before the age of 18 around the world. Breaking this down - everyday 41,000 girls get married; every minute 28 girls get married; every 2 seconds a girl gets...
