The Pelicot case: Will it change French attitudes towards rape?
For nearly a decade, Gisèle Pelicot was regularly drugged by her husband and offered up to strangers for sex. Now seen as the most notorious rape trial ever to be held in…
French mass rape trial shocks the nation
For nearly 10 years, her husband, Dominique Pelicot, routinely drugged his wife and invited scores of strangers to join him in raping her, often filming the encounters. In waiving her right to…
India: Striking doctors defy government over rape, murder
Rejecting a Supreme Court order and a government offer of talks, junior doctors in India continue their protest over the rape and murder of a young doctor in Kolkata.…
Man accused of recruiting strangers to rape his wife
Dominique Pelicot, 71, has admitted to recruiting dozens of strangers online to rape his wife, after drugging her with sleeping pills. Investigators have counted some 200 instances of rape with more than…
India court orders doctors’ safety panel after rape, murder
India's top court has ordered a national task force of doctors to make recommendations on safety to be established. It comes after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata…
India protests over doctor’s rape and murder grow
Thousands of people took to the streets of West Bengal, India, to condemn the rape and murder of a female trainee doctor at a Kolkata hospital. Smaller protests also took place in…
Uproar in India over Spanish tourists gang rape
The woman was camping with her partner in the Dumka district in eastern India when they were assaulted. The couple had been touring on motorbikes at the time.…
Reports of widespread rape and killing in Sudan’s Darfur
For more than a year, the Sudanese army has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, over control of the country. Rights groups say the RSF and allied Arab militias…
US court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction
A New York appeals court has ordered a new trial in the landmark case that drove the #MeToo movement. The majority opinion argued that the judge committed serious errors and swayed jurors…
Reviewing the spate of rape and domestic violence in Nigeria
Reviewing the spate of rape and domestic violence in Nigeria…
North Africa: Rape, assault cases prompt calls to resume death penalty
After a series of sexual assault and murder cases in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, politicians are responding to calls to overturn a moratorium on the death penalty. But experts say that will…