German lawmakers unanimously approved legislation on Thursday that would make it easier to prosecute suspects of sexual violence and that defines rape as the violation of a woman’s will under the principle of “no means no.”
For the first time the U.N. Security Council has used language acknowledging violence targeting the LGBT community in an official statement.
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday called for efforts to stop and punish sexual violence in conflict, adding that extremist groups have used sexual violence as a tactic of terrorism.
As many as 26 women have reported sexual assaults at a music festival in the western German city of Darmstadt, German media reported on Tuesday.
Most children remember their school days fondly, but for students of a school in Youxian County in central China's Hunan Province, it is a time they would prefer to forget.
The first case of the Zika virus was detected in South Korea from a man having traveled to Brazil, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said Tuesday.
Sun Xuemei had no time to celebrate Women's Day on Tuesday as she spent it fielding interviews about a campaign to protect a particularly vulnerable group of women.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday it's investigating 14 new reports of possible sexual transmission of the Zika virus in the country.
Australian experts warn that child-on-child sexual assaults are rising due to youth exposure to readily available pornography that depicts violent, degrading acts and coercion.
First case of Zika virus contracted in US mainland, confirmed in Texas, is only second documented example of virus being passed through sexual contact
Finnish police are investigating 15 suspected sexual offenses which occurred in Helsinki on New Year's Eve, said the Helsinki Police Department on Tuesday.
While demonstrators gathered in Cologne, Germany, on Sunday to protest against assaults allegedly done by asylum seekers, there have been question marks over media reports about similar sexual harassment that took place in Helsinki, Finland.
The Islamic State (IS) has institutionalized sexual violence against women by kidnapping and selling women and girls to raise funds, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict said here Wednesday.
A new allegation of sexual exploitation in the Central African Republic (CAR) was received Tuesday by the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the African country, reportedly committed by one of its civilian staff on Sept. 12, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
One in seven females at British universities experience serious physical or sexual assault during their time as students, a report published Sunday has revealed.
The number of sexual offences against children recorded by police in England and Wales soared by more than a third last year, figures released Wednesday by a leading children's charity showed.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday announced four directives to further strengthen the department's prevention and response program against sexual assault crimes in the country's military sector.
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