Protecting the identity of people accused of rape would be damaging and harmful both for victims and for society, campaigners have argued after it was...

The case of Stuart Hall is likely to add fuel to the debate over whether those accused of sexual offences should be given anonymity unless proven guil...

Around one in 12 people believe sexual assault and rape victims are to blame if they are either drunk, under the influence of drugs or flirtatious wit...

A UK rape charity has blasted a US bill that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term as “horrendous”. The bil...

Jimmy Savile was free to abuse up to 214 victims over 54 years, some of them under 10 years old because - as CPS head Keir Starmer put it - of "shortc...

Services aimed at helping vulnerable women, including refuges and rape crisis centres, are facing "disastrous" million-pound cuts as local authorities...

The Little Tweets of Misogyny tumblr carries a number of high-profile 'trigger warnings' for survivors of rape and other forms of sexual violence before it allows you to read its contents, and not without good cause. It's simply a collection of Twitter posts that have appeared since the sentencing of Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans rape but it is appalling both in the volume and violence of the misogynistic abuse it contains.

Imogen Thomas has said she feels sorry for the woman raped by footballer Ched Evans, after users of the social media site Twitter named and abused the...