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fromwww.independent.co.uk
8 hours ago

Calculated' predator who spiked and raped women jailed

A serial rapist suspected of being one of the UK's worst sex offenders has been jailed for life with a minimum of 14 years, after spiking and recording his victims as he abused them. Chao Xu, 33, had placed hidden cameras inside household objects such as an air freshener and a packet of sanitary pads to spy on women visiting his home address in Greenwich, and had also filmed women at his workplace and participated in upskirting at London Bridge underground station.
UK news
#rsf
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Mexico takes action to combat sexual abuse after president publicly groped

Sexual assault against Mexican women is widespread and a public groping of President Sheinbaum spurred a national plan to strengthen reporting, prosecution, and awareness.
#pornography
fromIndependent
1 day ago
UK politics

'One minute we were kissing, the next, he had his hands round my throat' - the insidious rise of choking in sex

fromIndependent
1 day ago
UK politics

'One minute we were kissing, the next, he had his hands round my throat' - the insidious rise of choking in sex

UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 days ago

I saw inmates eat glass and nails': Life inside Medomsley Detention Centre

Young men detained at Medomsley Detention Centre suffered systematic physical abuse, sexual assaults, humiliation, and brutal regimes leaving many traumatized.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 days ago

Worst sex offender in history' operated unchecked at notorious detention centre

Systemic failures and leadership negligence allowed widespread physical and sexual abuse, including prolific sexual assaults by Neville Husband, at Medomsley Detention Centre from 1961–1987.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week ago

Ex-Met officer David Carrick says woman made up claims because of MeToo movement'

David Carrick, a former Metropolitan Police officer convicted of extensive sexual offences, claimed a woman fabricated new allegations citing the MeToo movement.
#darfur
Women
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Women and girls not safe anywhere' as Darfur suffers surge in sexual violence

Women and girls in Darfur face severe threats of sexual violence amid ongoing conflict, as documented by MSF.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

'Choking' in porn has become the new normal. Here's why a new UK law banning it is so vital | Clare McGlynn

The UK will criminalize publishing or possessing pornographic depictions of strangulation, addressing rising prevalence and links between viewing strangulation in porn and real-world sexual choking.
Public health
fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

It's women's rights versus religion in Malawi abortion fight DW 11/06/2025

Malawi High Court ruled survivors of sexual violence, including a 14-year-old rape victim, have the right to legal abortion and health guidelines must be amended.
fromThe Local France
1 week ago

'We want protection': Petition demands women-only carriages on Paris transport

"We don't want to be separated - we want to be protected!!! Offer us solutions, not promises. "But if there are no effective solutions, we may have to seriously consider separate carriages - an extreme, desperate, and drastic measure (...) Women should not have to feel fear every time they travel. They have the right to travel in peace and safety."
France news
UK news
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Ex-Met Police officer on trial for new sex offences

David Carrick, a former Metropolitan police officer, is accused of decades-long predatory sexual offending, including molesting a girl and raping and assaulting multiple women.
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

'I feared a smear test would feel like being attacked again'

"When people say it changes your life, it really is true," she said. "For me, it kind of felt like dying which is also why I feel the link to surviving is so important, to draw that out." She said while it gets easier over time, it is still hard to talk about and live with. "You might see a trigger that you weren't expecting and then it might give you nightmares."
Public health
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Why has the Israeli army's top lawyer resigned after leaking rape evidence?

Video of the alleged rape of Palestinian prisoner at Sde Temain went viral last year. Now the prosecutor who leaked it has quit. The Israeli military's top lawyer, Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, has resigned after admitting to leaking footage showing the gang rape of a prisoner at the Sde Temain prison facility in August last year. The video of the rape had originally been leaked to the press in early August in the midst of a right-wing backlash following the arrest of a number of soldiers for the rape of a Palestinian prisoner.
World news
#rape
fromIndependent
2 weeks ago
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'He has never offered an apology' - Irish firefighter Terence Crosbie jailed for at least seven years for raping woman in Boston

Terence Crosbie, 39, a Dublin firefighter, was jailed at least seven years for raping a woman in a Boston hotel during St Patrick's Day celebrations.
fromIndependent
2 weeks ago
Miscellaneous

'He has never offered an apology' - Irish firefighter Terence Crosbie jailed for at least seven years for raping woman in Boston

California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 weeks ago

California teacher in satanic pedo brotherhood' sentenced for child porn

Former substitute Gregory Allen Kornman pleaded guilty to more than 20 child pornography counts and received an eight-year prison sentence for violent sexual material.
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago

He fled Iraq after he was jailed for being gay. Now Donald Trump is making his life hell. - LGBTQ Nation

Throughout Ali's childhood in Iraq, he was repeatedly bullied by students and teachers for what he described as his feminine behavior. During his pre-teen and teenage years, men sexually assaulted him, but he couldn't report it to the police for fear that he'd be thrown into jail for years since Iraq has criminalized homosexuality. Ali was afraid to come out or talk about these assaults to his family.
LGBT
fromThe Walrus
3 weeks ago

Why I Still Believe in Human Rights, Even When It May Seem Easier to Give Up | The Walrus

In 2006, as genocidal violence in Sudan's Darfur region spilled into neighbouring Chad, I spent several weeks with an Amnesty International research team travelling along the Chadian side of that troubled border, documenting the impact of a string of brutal attacks against isolated villages that had left a macabre trail of death, destruction, and fear. This part of eastern Chad is arid and barren, with rocky, hard-packed earth, shifting sands, gnarled trees, and scrappy bush.
Social justice
fromThe Local France
1 month ago

French court increases jail term of man who raped Gisele Pelicot

The court and jury sentence Husamettin Dogan to 10 years in prison
France news
#criminal-appeal
Soccer (FIFA)
fromPrx
1 month ago

The World

Militias in North Darfur are increasingly perpetrating sexual violence against women; the ICC recently convicted a Sudanese militia leader for mass murder and sexual violence.
#drug-facilitated-assault
France news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Gisele Pelicot's ex-husband tells court man convicted of rape knew she was sedated

Dominique Pelicot says Husamettin Dogan knew Gisele Pelicot was sedated and deliberately came to her home to rape her.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

ICC convicts ex-Janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb of war crimes in Darfur

The ICC convicted militia commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (Ali Kushayb) of 27 war crimes and crimes against humanity for Darfur attacks in 2003–2004.
fromThe Local France
1 month ago

Feminist icon Gisele Pelicot back in court as man appeals rape conviction

Frenchwoman Gisèle Pelicot, whose ex-husband recruited dozens of strangers online to sexually assault and rape her while drugged, arrived in court on Monday for an appeal trial triggered by the bid of one man who said he "never intended" to rape her. Fifty-one men, including her former husband Dominique Pelicot, were convicted after an initial months-long trial that ended in December last year and turned Gisèle Pelicot into a global icon.
France news
France news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Gisele Pelicot returns to court to face one of men convicted of raping her

Gisele Pelicot, drugged by her ex-husband and raped by dozens over almost a decade, attended court as one convicted attacker appealed.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Elements by John Boyne review intertwined tales of trauma

The Elements collects four interlinked novellas about characters repeatedly confronting trauma, sexual violence, and attempts to find peace amid recurring connections.
France news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Gisele Pelicot to attend appeals court as man convicted of raping her contests verdict

Gisele Pelicot will attend an appeal trial in France as one convicted rapist appeals, after surviving years of drug-facilitated gang rapes orchestrated by her ex-husband.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Melissa Leong: Life is not easy. Life is ugly and hard and unpredictable'

Melissa Leong candidly describes mental-health struggles, trauma, eating disorders, career upheavals and a need to balance vulnerability with privacy.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Galapagos Islands, wildlife haven, faces a sexual violence epidemic: Protection is nonexistent'

El Mango viewpoint is a scenic Galapagos site where three teenage girls were drugged, sexually abused and raped, exposing endemic violence and community stigma.
Higher education
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Thousands of students report sexual violence at university

14% of respondents reported sexual violence and 25% reported sexual harassment; women and LGB students were disproportionately affected, with some student–staff intimate relationships reported.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Tape review reverential Hong Kong remake of Richard Linklater drama of toxic masculinity

Hong Kong remake of Tape updates setting and tech but fails to penetrate contemporary #MeToo gender conflicts or match Linklater's visual inventiveness.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

All the accused men in that court had a double life': Beatrice Zavarro on defending Dominique Pelicot

This time last year, Beatrice Zavarro, a then unknown lawyer from Marseille, drew herself up to her full 1.45-metre (4ft 8in) height, and addressed the figure in the dock: It's you and me against the world. That man was Dominique Pelicot. Over the next three months and 17 days, the court would learn that for almost a decade he had drugged his wife, Gisele, and invited more than 50 men into their bedroom to rape her while she was unconscious.
Law
Philosophy
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

The Ghosts of Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann's early novella anticipates lifelong themes—language's limits, sexual violence, and a shift from realist clarity toward later oneiric, mystical concerns.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy | Rebecca Solnit

Rape is a systemic assault on equality and rights, enabled by social, legal, and cultural structures that silence victims and perpetuate profound inequality.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

DR Congo: All sides may be guilty of war crimes UN probe DW 09/05/2025

M23 rebels and Congolese forces committed widespread serious abuses—including sexual violence and killings—that may amount to war crimes; Rwanda and DRC share responsibility.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

If they had killed me, it would have been better'

Islam's* life was changed forever by an air strike in November 2023. The young woman from el-Geneina, Sudan, had been preparing for her exams when a strike landed directly on her family's home. Now, sitting in one of the countless straw structures in a sprawling refugee camp in Adre just over the border in eastern Chad, Islam, 22, sobs as she recalls what happened to her.
World news
History
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Slavery Was Not Just Forced Labor but Sexual Violence Too

Chattel slavery involved widespread, horrific sexual violence, including the systematic sexual exploitation and sadistic abuse of enslaved children, often erased from public history.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Female politicians and artists reject attempts to link migration and sexual abuse

Politicians reject far-right claims linking sexual violence to asylum seekers, saying there is no evidence refugees are more likely to commit such crimes.
#m23
Public health
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 months ago

Sexual violence surged amid war in DRC's North Kivu last year: UN

A sharp increase in sexual violence cases in DRC is reported amid ongoing conflict, with over 17,000 cases recorded in just five months of 2024.
Philosophy
fromAeon
3 months ago

In the face of denial, this film uncovers the hidden scars of Indonesia's 1998 riots | Aeon Videos

Indonesia's 1998 crisis led to the end of Suharto's dictatorship amid violence targeting ethnic Chinese communities and widespread sexual attacks.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

The #MeToo campaign leader using the Epstein scandal to champion victims: The survivors are the heroes'

Survivors' voices are vital for the ongoing discourse around sexual violence and accountability.
fromwww.nytimes.com
3 months ago

Their Mass Rape Went Unpunished. Four Decades Later, They Fought Back.

In the early 1980s, a brutal civil war was raging in remote Guatemalan villages, like those around the town of Rabinal, where violence left the countryside dotted with mass graves.
Social justice
France news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 months ago

Gisele Pelicot awarded France's highest honour as country marks Bastille Day

Gisele Pelicot received France's highest honor for her fight against sexual violence, emphasizing the importance of confronting such crimes.
Social justice
fromThe Nation
4 months ago

Pro-Palestine Activists Are Facing Horrifying Abuse Online

Pro-Palestinian activists face widespread online harassment, including threats of sexual violence and graphic misogyny.
Music
fromPitchfork
4 months ago

Tori Amos: Boys for Pele

Boys for Pele explores themes of trauma and revenge influenced by personal assault and cultural reflections on male authority.
Social justice
fromeuronews
4 months ago

Israeli report accuses Hamas of using sexual violence as weapon of war

Hamas employed sexual violence as a tactical weapon during the October 7 attacks, aiming to silence victims and obstruct investigations.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 months ago

Diddy verdict raises questions over domestic abuse, power and coercion

The jury found Sean Diddy Combs guilty of transporting individuals to engage in prostitution, but not guilty of sex trafficking or racketeering related to his parties.
Women
fromwww.bbc.com
4 months ago

Accused 'seen dancing after fatally stabbing man'

Mr Mosquera recorded himself having sex with Albert Alfonso before fatally stabbing him. Two men were killed on July 8, 2024, with Mr Mosquera denying murder.
UK news
US news
fromIndependent
4 months ago

Garda who impersonated his female colleague online and encouraged men to rape her was a trusted family friend, court hears

Flanagan impersonated a woman online, inciting men to commit violent acts against her, revealing the dangers of digital impersonation.
Social justice
fromwww.dw.com
4 months ago

DR Congo: Drastic increase in sexual violence DW 06/30/2025

The M23 rebellion has intensified violence and sexual atrocities, particularly against women, in Eastern Congo, where survivors face significant barriers to seeking justice.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray's women

The brutal sexual violence against Tigrayan women reveals a systematic attempt to destroy their fertility and ethnic identity.
fromwww.standard.co.uk
4 months ago

Predator who raped schoolgirl, 13, in an alleyway near Croydon shopping centre is jailed

Amini's attack on this vulnerable girl was predatory and calculated. He has demonstrated himself to be a dangerous sexual offender and this sentence prevents him from harming anyone else.
London politics
#andrew-tate
UK news
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

Civil case against influencer Andrew Tate is first of its kind, UK judge told

Andrew Tate faces civil allegations of sexual violence and coercive control, setting a legal precedent in the UK.
#war-crimes
fromwww.npr.org
5 months ago

In Haiti, a record number of people have been displaced from their homes

Diana Manilla Arroyo states, 'This hospital has been completely overwhelmed with the demand in the last few months,' describing the dire situation as violence escalates.
Black Lives Matter
NYC politics
fromBusiness Insider
5 months ago

How each Diddy victim testified and how it could sway the trial's outcome

Sean Combs faces serious allegations of violence from seven women, impacting his trial's outcome significantly.
Women
fromLos Angeles Times
5 months ago

Commentary: At Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial, the women testifying are on trial too

Survivors of sexual violence continue facing scrutiny and doubt, stemming from entrenched societal biases about how victims should behave.
San Francisco
fromSFGATE
5 months ago

Woman escapes 2-year imprisonment in Bay Area Hyatt hotel

A man received a 394-year prison sentence for torturing and abusing a woman for two years at a hotel.
fromIndependent
5 months ago

Man who raped his daughter when she was a child fails in appeal over conviction for sexual abuse of her sister

Oliver Berry's conviction was upheld after he attempted to overturn it, having previously committed severe sexual abuse against his daughters, highlighting serious systemic failures.
Parenting
UK politics
fromMail Online
5 months ago

How does chemical castration work? Step-by-step guide to the process

The UK government plans to chemically castrate sex offenders to decrease sexual drive and re-offending rates.
Relationships
fromPsychology Today
6 months ago

How Not to Talk About the Sean Diddy Combs Legal Case

Language plays a critical role in discussing sexual and domestic violence, influencing perceptions of victims and perpetrators.
Social justice
fromESPN.com
6 months ago

At long last, Michigan State aligns with Larry Nassar survivors

Michigan State University is now taking collaborative steps to address sexual violence after years of indifference toward survivors.
fromVulture
6 months ago

Andor's Adria Arjona Doesn't See Bix As a Victim

"It's not really important whether it was controversial or not; if we're showing all parts of history, then you've gotta show that part. Rape and abuse of power lives in our world and also lives in the galaxy far, far away."
Black Lives Matter
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 months ago

More than 480 civilians killed in Sudan's North Darfur over two weeks: UN

The suffering of the Sudanese people is hard to imagine, harder to comprehend and simply impossible to accept, said UN rights chief Volker Turk.
UK news
fromHarlem, NY Patch
7 months ago

Man Sexually Assaulted Woman At Gunpoint On Manhattan Street, DA Says

Brown will serve 20 years in a state prison, followed by 25 years of post-release supervision, Bragg said. Brown will also be required to complete the New York State Sex Offender Registration.
NYC LGBT
Social justice
fromLos Angeles Times
7 months ago

Commentary: California's first partner has a plan to fix the epidemic of violence against women

Sexual violence is a pervasive issue affecting one in five American women, highlighting a societal crisis that needs urgent attention.
France news
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

Sexual violence and harassment endemic' in French entertainment industry, report finds

The entertainment industry in France still harbors endemic sexual violence and harassment, despite the impact of the #MeToo movement.
France news
fromThe Local France
7 months ago

Four men charged in France 'libertine' gang rape case

A French magistrate charges four men linked to gang rapes over a decade involving coercion and torture in the swinging scene.
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