India's top court Tuesday denied a plea by a pregnant woman to terminate her 26-week old foetus diagnosed with Down's Syndrome, the latest in a string of women to have her abortion request rejected....
The United Nations has warned that large numbers of children are still risking their lives to make the dangerous journey from Libya to Italy. Unicef says almost 26,000 children - most of them...
US Senator Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday pressed her case to fellow lawmakers for requiring US amateur sports governing bodies to notify law-enforcement agencies regarding all reports of abuse. The...
A provision in the Sexual Offenses (Amendment) Bill which proposes stiff penalties for men who ogle at women saying that the proposition is not fair, local media reports caused an uproar from a...
An Indian minister says she made rape suspects beg for their lives and ordered police to torture them. Uma Bharti, the water resources minister, claims she told the men's accusers to watch as they...
KUMASI circuit Court 1, presided over by Her Lordship, Mrs. Comfort Taseameh, has remanded a 41-year-old businessman, Owusu Desmond, for raping his twenty-year-old daughter. Presenting the fact of...
A 22-year-old rape victim in Zimbabwe left many in shock when she asked a Magistrates Court to withdraw two counts of rape against a man who raped her, claiming that she has been bedding him on many...
An inquiry examining institutional sex abuse in Australia has heard 7% of the nation’s Catholic priests allegedly abused children between 1950 and 2010. In one order, more than 40% of church...
A 67 year old old man, John Akanah has been put before Koforidua Circuit Court ‘B’ for allegedly defiling a thirteen (13) year old Class four pupil of an Islamic Primary School in Koforidua in...
24-year old man in court for defilement Ephraim Amuzu, a 24-year old man, has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling a 13-year old at Spintex in Accra but he has, however,...
Ephraim Amuzu, a 24-year old man, has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling a 13-year old at Spintex in Accra but he has, however, denied the offence before the Police. He...
Hardly a day goes by when there isn’t a news report about a minor being sexually abused by a much older person. And the shocking thing is that for every case reported dozens are not because the...
Swedish police on Monday called on the public to provide video clips of a suspected gang rape that was allegedly live-streamed on Facebook. Police in Uppsala were contacted on Sunday morning by a...
Three men were arrested on suspicion of rape in Sweden on Sunday, following reports of an assault against a woman being live-streamed on Facebook. Police in Uppsala were contacted in the morning by a...
A sentence of life in jail is actually lurking around the corner for a 17-year-old Michigan girl who forced a man, 19 to have sex with her at knife point. As the world grows older, every new day...
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 human rights watchdog said more than a dozen tribal women were raped by police in restive Chhattisgarh state with the victims' lawyer slamming authorities over delays in arresting the...
Child sexual abuse refers to sexual activity with a minor. A child cannot consent to any form of sexual activity, period. When a perpetrator engages with a child this way, they are committing a crime...
