Sicilian authorities have made a series of arrests after a suspected sex trafficking ring was believed to have forced at least 15 Nigerian girls into prostitution in Italy. Among those arrested were two Nigerian women, Rita Ihama, 38, and Monica Ona...
Sexual abuse of boys is “barely addressed” by the laws in many countries, according to a global study that warns of a lack of support for young male survivors. The study, which examined child rape laws in 40 countries, found that just under half of...
William Hague has defended the controversial initiative he established with Angelina Jolie, describing it as having made “enormous progress” in raising awareness and breaking taboos around sexual violence in conflict. Set up by the former British fo...
The number of serious incidents of sexual harassment, bullying and abuse reported to the Charity Commission in the three months following the Oxfam sexual abuse scandal has risen to more than 1,150. The total number of serious incidents reported by...
The lawyers for a young Sudanese woman sentenced to death for killing her husband as he tried to rape her have formally appealed the ruling as a petition calling for her to be spared reached a million signatures. The legal team working on behalf of...
Thousands of women and girls who believed they were being led to safety from Boko Haram by Nigerian security forces were instead systematically abused in exchange for food and assistance, an Amnesty International investigation has revealed. The shoc...
The UN and international rights groups are calling on Sudan to pardon a 19-year-old woman sentenced to death after she killed her husband as he tried to rape her. Noura Hussein, who was compelled by her family to marry when she was 16, is facing dea...
As a woman growing up in India, Seema Nair experienced first-hand the country’s deeply entrenched gender inequalities and violence. From a young age she knew she wanted to change this: she now works for the Fund for Global Human Rights, organising p...
On Saturday India’s government approved the death penalty for convicted rapists of girls under the age of 12, amid a groundswell of public outrage following the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Jammu and Kashmir state. The sh...
The Foreign Office has been accused of neglecting its pledge to tackle sexual violence in conflict zones, after the number of experts on a flagship team designed to improve protection for women was halved. The preventing sexual violence initiative,...
The Foreign Office has been accused of neglecting its pledge to tackle sexual violence in conflict zones, after the number of experts on a flagship team designed to improve protection for women was halved. The preventing sexual violence initiative,...
The UK government has come under fire from victims’ groups for failing to contribute to a UN fund for survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations staff. A lawyer representing the mothers of the 11 “peacekeeper babies” in Haiti said...