Some 20 people from Multan, Pakistan, have been arrested for ordering the rape of a teenage girl, in revenge for a rape her brother allegedly committed. Police said the families of the two girls are...
Three women have appeared in court after a pastor says he was raped. Two of the women are alleged to have pinned the man down on a bed while the third carried out the sex attack. A magistrates’...
Three women have appeared before a court accused of gang raping a pastor who went round to their home to demand money they owed him. Western Commonage Magistrates Court in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, heard...
Fourteen members of a Pakistani village council have been arrested for ordering the rape of a teenage girl as punishment for a rape committed by her brother, police said Wednesday. The incident...
Doctors on Wednesday will examine a 10-year-old raped by her uncle as India's top court considers whether she should be allowed to have an abortion despite strict laws. The girl's parents went to the...
All-female police units are shaking up the male-dominated force in conservative northwest India, hitting the streets to combat sex crimes and a pervasive culture of silence around rape. One such...
A man accused of the gang rape and murder of a girl in northern India has been killed in police custody, an official said Thursday, sparking angry riots in the usually tranquil Himalayan region....
Indian police Thursday arrested a key suspect in the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl near the hill resort of Shimla, shocking a small community where such brutal violence is rare. The...
A woman who survived an alleged gang rape and four separate acid attacks has once again been hit by corrosive liquid, Indian police said Sunday. The 35-year-old mother, who was allegedly gangraped in...
THREE organisations have jointly called for the criminal justice system to provide more protection for women and children, who suffer sexual abuse by handing down stiffer punishment to offenders....
A former doctor to gymnasts from successive US Olympic teams is to stand trial on charges that he sexually assaulted female athletes, some younger than 13, over almost two decades. A Michigan court...
Three organizations have jointly called for the criminal justice system to provide more protection for women and children, who suffer sexual abuse by handing down stiffer punishment to offenders....
A judge has declared a mistrial in the Bill Cosby sex assault case, after the jury was deadlocked for a second time. The seven men and five women were unable to reach a unanimous decision, following...
Fifteen years after her horrific gang rape by a local clan in her village in Pakistan, Mukhtar Mai is reliving her ordeal -- and courageousness -- through a US opera inspired by her story. "I was...
Children as young as three and six years have become favourites of female child traffickers as they will not be impregnated. This is part of highlights of a baseline study by the International...
Ex Ghana Black Meteors skipper Yusif Alhassan Chibsah is calling on the Swedish Government to conduct ‘deep investigations’ into the matter of incarcerated Ghanaian footballer, Kwame Bonsu. The...
Ghanaian midfielder Kwame Bonsu is on the verge of being vindicated over rape charge leveled against him by his wife in Sweden. Bonsu has been sentenced to two years in prison after his wife reported...
A 17-year-old girl, who handed herself in to South African police, is expected to appear in court, accused of killing a man who allegedly tried to rape her. “She was on her way to a local tavern...
Women and young girls in the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipality (LEKMA) in the Greater Accra Region continue to live in fear of being raped as the municipality records increasing rape and sexual assault...
Indian police said Thursday they have arrested two more men for gang-raping a woman and killing her baby daughter by throwing her from a moving autorickshaw. They have registered a case of murder and...
