Latest in Tag: rape Highlight
Latest in Tag: rape
Rape victim complains of new delay in Tunisia police trial
Three police officers have been held in custody in connection with the case, two of them, Chawki Ben Ammar and Walid Feriani, on rape charges and the third on charges of extortion.
Tunisia police rape trial adjourned
The defence had asked for a doctor to conduct a psychiatric examination of the woman.
JUSTICE IN INDIA
By Dr Cesar Chelala The conviction of four men in India, accused of gang rape and the murder of a young Indian woman was widely celebrated throughout the country. Although the conviction is seen as a just and necessary punishment of the young rapists, many women are sceptical that it will lead to a new era in …
NGOs: 101 sexual assault cases in Tahrir Square since Friday
26 new cases of sexual assault on Tuesday; groups describe official reaction to assault cases as “new low”
Systematic sexual torture still continues under Morsi
State still uses sexual torture as a method of oppression
Street children: What they are not
We see them everywhere. They beg, they clean cars, they fight in the street. We see mothers with their babies and babies without their mothers. We see them in wheelchairs, sitting on the ground, leaning on our cars. Begging, touching us. Asking us to help them, for the love of God. We see them sleeping in the street, under a blanket, on a piece of cardboard. Sometimes, we mistake them for a pile of garbage. They are everywhere, all day, all night. We call them street children and most of us have never exchanged a single word with them.
HarassMap: More than half of sexual harassment takes the form of groping
The anti-sexual harassment initiativeâs statistics come from its recently released annual report
Human trafficking in the Sinai
8 year old girl to be sold to gangsters and her mother in danger of gang-rape before her eyes
Dead India gang-rape suspect was heavy-drinking migrant
Singh was accused by police of being the ringleader in the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi last December
Rape, burn and pillage
Violence. Sheer, unadulterated brute force. From the Ultras, to the Brotherhoodâs âmilitiasâ (can you believe that our president is a member of a group that has âmilitiasâ? Doesnât that sound utterly ludicrous; does it not strain credulity to breaking point when you say it out loud?), to the MOI, to SCAF, to the mysterious (and …
Report of sexual assaults in police stations
A report filed to the prosecutor general claims at least 21 men-in one incident- have been raped while in police custody
How un-Islamic it is to blame the victim
No-one should trivialise such crimes against Egyptian women, as doing so is wrong, unethical, and immoral
Political groups will join fight against sexual harassment
Members of political groups will join Tahrir Bodyguard in attempts to make Tahrir Square harassment-free
Somalia jails alleged rape victim, journalist for one year
Rights groups have condemned the case as “politically motivated”
Tahrirâs Tattered Trophy
By Philip Whitfield How long would it take you to vent your spleen? Me? An hour a column if Iâm not distracted. This oneâs been stewing, nay boiling, for months. The headline should have been The Rape of Egypt, but I toned it down not to offend the squeamish. If you donât care to read …
19 Sexual Harassment cases in Tahrir, Sky News reporter assaulted in Alexandria
An Egyptian woman less than 20 years old was sexually assaulted on Friday night amidst demonstrations in and around Tahrir. The assault caused cuts on the girlâs genitals.
Demo against hospital rape case
Anti-Harassment groups will demonstrate outside diabetes institute where a man raped six women while they were under anaesthetic
Delhi gang-rape accused in court for first time
Lawyers at the Saket court complex have decided to refuse to defend the accused, ignoring pleas from India’s chief justice
Sexual abuse within the family
Sexual abuse in Egypt is a great taboo but it is the victims who pay the price for societyâs intolerance
Saudi Police denies Egyptian woman was raped
Husband says his wife possessed by jinn.
Tunisia govt responsible for police impunity: lawyer
Tunisia govt responsible for police impunity
Of women and sex
Those in power are too busy to notice the daily atrocities committed against women
Domestic violence: a womanâs permanent scar
Egyptian women share their domestic violence experiences with DNE
Georgia prison scandal highlights widespread torture
Georgiaâs president vows to eradicate torture after videos depicting rape and torture in a Georgian prison spark anger and protest
Unprecedented numbers of African refugees flee to Yemen
UNHCR expresses concern over abuse by smugglers
Student referred to criminal court for sexual harassment
After few hours of investigations, the harasser was referred to court, charged with rape