The defense has been increasingly used by men in court to claim that the fatal injuries they inflicted upon women were the result of consensual acts.

A German journalist alleged that President Valery Giscard d’Estaing groped her during a 2018 interview.

With reduced access to movement and shelters during the lockdown, undocumented refugee women have no opportunity to distance themselves from potential abusers.

The death penalty might appease anti-rape bloodlust; it does little to counter rape culture.

The feminist anthem has become a symbol of resistance for women across the world.

The recent gang rape and murder case in Modasa, Gujarat, is a microcosm of the country's broader trends in violence against women.

While the sequel suffers from the same vigilante-justice catharsis as the first, its insight into rape's power dynamics diverges from typical Bollywood fare.

The deal, which would also not require Weinstein to pay personally, speaks to the limited means of justice available to most sexual harassment and assault survivors.

Despite a flurry of reforms following the 2012 Delhi gang-rape/murder, the State has done nothing to ensure women's safety.

150 years ago, society moved from executing criminals to trying and imprisoning them for a reason.

A study on the effects of just one television episode shows what responsible television-making can accomplish for viewers.

Even the harshest penalties imposed on rapists will not dismantle the rape culture that conditions them in the first place.

Imperfect humans will birth imperfect stories, but that shouldn't stop us from attempting to perfect the #MeToo movement.

To prevent people from reliving traumatic experiences, the brain processes and stores such memories differently.

Microsoft Bing, Amazon and Google also had a significant number of URLs that led to child sexual abuse content.

For many girls, the harassment starts as early as Grade 4, according to a Canadian survey.

They're enjoying their patriarchy-enabled, privileged lives free of any real, long-term consequences.

Rape survivors were twice as likely to have an unwanted pregnancy over the course of their lives than those who had a voluntary first sexual experience.