All news on the topic: Sexual Violence

The months after the October 7, 2023, attacks saw a wave of questionable mainstream news stories about alleged sexual assault in Hamas’s attacks that day on Israel.

Twenty-three-year-old Sarah Roque had been in the Army for just over four years when a man fatally shot her in the head.

Astens of thousands are freed, female survivors are increasingly reporting gender-based violence in the compounds, previously thought to hold mainly men.

Mozambican soldiers have been accused of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Cabo Delgado, while staff working on TotalEnergies’ LNG project allegedly coerced women into sex, according to interviews and an unpublished UN report obtained by Forbidden Stories.

A violent rapist who carried out a catalogue of abuse and brutality towards women has been jailed for nine years after putting victims through “a horrific ordeal”.

The United Nations has added several Israeli entities to a blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in war zones.

LBC has learned that a woman who claims she was drugged and thrown into the River Thames by the Black Cab Rapist John Worboys was told by police they would not pursue her case because they "already had enough victims".

Victims of rape and sexual violence have informed parliamentarians that they felt anxious and distressed during a Westminster evidence session.

Media coverage of violence against women and girls and misogynistic harassment is at a "pitiful" low, despite a proliferation of high-profile cases of men abusing women and children, and a rise in AI-assisted violence against women and girls, new research shows.

Documents and first-person accounts reveal how a quickly organized evacuation by a private charity left hundreds of Ukrainian children in a Turkish seaside town with little supervision.

“Dr. Evil,” the alleged sadistic Russian prison medic, exposed by OCCRP and RFE/RL Schemes, has been charged in absentia by Ukraine with war crimes.

A man from Afghanistan has been charged with several sexual assaults against women in Southampton, as well as illegally entering the UK.

A British commentator allegedly applauding the Oct 7 massacre has been detained by US authorities and is facing deportation back to the UK.

Women in Australia’s defence forces launched a class action lawsuit Friday alleging widespread and systematic sexual violence, harassment, and discrimination.

AI-generated images of extreme poverty, children, and survivors of sexual violence are flooding stock photo sites and are increasingly being used by leading health NGOs, according to global health professionals who have expressed concern over a new era of “poverty porn.”

A French court on Thursday rejected the appeal of a former construction worker found guilty last year of the aggravated rape of Gisele Pelicot, and increased his prison sentence by a year to 10 years, France Info reported.

Schoolfriends, family members and neighbours are among the dozens of men arrested for the rape of a teenager in India.

America’s top anti-sexual assault nonprofit ‘obeyed Donald Trump’ by wiping almost all mentions of trans people from its website, critics say.

Four purported victims of sexual violence by the self-proclaimed ’misogynist influencer’ respond following reports that a US envoy requested the lifting of travel restrictions on Tate.

Less than two months after more than 50 men were found guilty of the rape and abuse of Gisele Pelicot, at least six of them are already free.

The boss of Harrods has personally apologised for the first time in relation to sexual abuse allegations against the store’s late owner Mohamed Al Fayed.

A scheme to compensate members of a defunct religious cult known as the Jesus Army has identified 539 alleged perpetrators of abuse, and revealed about one in six children had been sexually abused.

An Australian court sentenced a 29-year-old man to 17 years in prison for coercing 286 victims from several countries, including 180 children, into performing sexually explicit acts on camera or video.