A third young man has come forward alleging that he was sexually assaulted by Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, after two previous claims against the Tory M...
Queens Park Rangers striker Loic Remy has been bailed after he was arrested on suspicion of rape. The 26-year-old French international was being he...
For many of us, rape often remains invisible. It is not acknowledged, discussed or even prosecuted. Yet for survivors, it is a traumatic, life-changing event. Whether the assailant is unknown or even if he is a partner, survivors need support. Being in a relationship does not mean that sexual rights are void.
I went in expecting to be underwhelmed, given that the reviews hadn't been glowing, but instead left furious at one of its main plot threads. To explain why, I think it best to reverse the flip gender of the characters involved, and go into some detail about the plot. (So beware spoilers.)
A Hong Kong official has faced an angry backlash after implying that if women stopped drinking as much they wouldn't be raped. Crime figures for t...
Loïc Rémy, the Queens Park Rangers striker, has been arrested on suspicion of rape this morning. The French forward was taken into custody in wes...
Children's charities and religious groups have condemned the "horrifying abuse" suffered by the Oxford paedophile ring's victims after seven men were ...
Seven members of a sadistic paedophile ring are facing long jail sentences on Tuesday as police and social workers apologised to their victims for fai...
Hyper-masculinity is damaging and destructive. It assumes that men are predisposed to violence; that men are nothing more than violent sexual predators incapable of self-control and empathy. The capitalist-patriarchy states that men are inherently violent and that nothing will ever change that.
Five people were cautioned for rape in the last year, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. According to figures obtained by London Assemb...
Feminist icon Germaine Greer says she is in favour of rape victims being named. Speaking on the BBC's Question Time show, Greer said complainants s...
If someone committed a crime against you should they be let off if it had happened a long time ago? Or would you still want to see justice done, no matter how much time had passed? Well today there has been a lot of debate about comments by a leading lawyer who described the investigation of historical sexual offences under Operation Yewtree as the 'witch-hunting of ageing celebs'.
Allegations over male on male rape have recently hit the headlines, but because this crime is so rarely properly covered in the media, is it possible it's prone to even more misapprehension, taboo and myth, than other kinds of sexual assault?
Deputy Commons Speaker Nigel Evans has denied accusations of raping and assaulting two young men saying the allegations were "completely false". Th...
A girl of 12 has been raped in woodland at a play park, police said. Thames Valley Police said she had been on her own when a man pulled her to the...
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...
Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has vowed to fight allegations that he raped a 15-year-old girl in 1967. In a statement he said: "I am astounde...
Two men have been found guilty of raping a teenage boy in the toilets of a city centre department store. Alex Wilson-Fletcher, 42, and Abdelkader E...
A six-year-old girl has been raped and mutilated in a public toilet in New Delhi, India, just a week after a five-year-old suffered a similarly horrif...
A protester at the notorious Occupy London camp site on the foot of St Paul's Cathedral today denied twice raping a woman in one of the tents. Malc...
Sex is a part of life, and women need to be aware of how they can effectively use contraception - and more vitally, how said contraception may not directly contradict their religious views. People live and die by the way governments and religions alike try to sweep debates on sex and contraception under the rug - so it's time to stop dismissing these topics as 'taboo'.
Capital punishment is no easy answer. It is a barbaric, horrific and out-dated relic, tainted by the nightmare grisly ceremony of the whole process, something incongruous to a modern society and rightly consigned to the dustbin of history. It must never return.
The eyes of the world may now be turned elsewhere, but Haiti remains one of the most vulnerable places on earth, battered repeatedly by earthquakes, cyclones, floods, landslides, drought, and epidemics. Hurricanes routinely knock up to 15% from GDP. The total volume of humanitarian aid to Haiti since 2001 exceeds $4billion. The challenge ahead is stark.
Rape jokes are a serious issue when they undermine the victim's self-confidence, prevent the reporting of sexual assault and lead to the blaming of victims for being too 'sexily' dressed, too drunk or just making the age-old mistake of being too female.
