#Sexual Violence

#Sexual Violence

The scene filmed on Sunday showed France's first lady in discussion backstage at the Folies Bergere theatre in central Paris with actor Ary Abittan before a performance he was about to give. The previous night, feminist campaigners had disrupted his show, wearing masks of the actor bearing the word rapist and shouting, Abittan, rapist! A woman in 2021 accused the actor of rape, but in 2023, investigators dropped the case, citing a lack of evidence.

Dos Santos was only a child, but along with others, she ran to hide in the nearby mountains. The invading Indonesian forces were determined to find them especially the women and girls. The army searched for us in the bush, captured us and took us back, she said, recounting how at just nine years old she was violently raped by Indonesian soldiers.

Up to a million women worldwide are facing sexual violence and forced labour in prisons, where they are overlooked and forgotten, in what is being called a growing global crisis. The number of incarcerated women is rising much faster than men and is expected to surpass one million on current trends. While on average women account for between 2% and 9% of national prison populations, since 2000 the number imprisoned has grown by 57%, compared with a 22% increase in the men's prison population.

"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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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."

The suffering of the Sudanese people is hard to imagine, harder to comprehend and simply impossible to accept, said UN rights chief Volker Turk.