Anene Booysen’s rape will happen again. She was raped and mutilated because she was a girl, and they wanted to destroy her, writes Sisonke Msimang.
The justice system relies on the J-88 form to be filled in as evidence in a rape case but this intrusive questionnaire doesn’t guarantee conviction.
A Zimbabwean child died in New Zealand and her uncle was tried for her murder. That’s when South African experts on child rape were called in.
Women’s rights in Morocco are poised to improve with the probable scrapping of a law allowing rapists of minors to avoid jail by marrying them.
The case has provoked outrage and anger, coming against a background of rising violence against women in India.
Following a brutal gang-rape and murder in India last month, ‘anti-harassment’ police have fined single women and couples for being out after dark.
We rewind to the news headlines this week; from protests in the Cape to the outcry over the gang-rape in India, and a Japanese hacker plays hide and seek.
Delegates at a civil society conference have heard that the sexualisation of minors is out of control.
Termination is a legal right, yet thousands still turn to backstreet abortionists, reflecting the ignorance and stigma that surround the issue.
It is an atypical argument for a gender activist to make – that the police must put more effort into investigating cases of stranger rape.
The term "vagina" reduces women to a sexless commodity and contains violent potential, says documentary filmmaker, Gillian Schutte.
Civil society services for rape survivors are being forced to scale back due to funding issues.
Men who rape look and act like everyone else, almost right up until they start raping, as confessions on Reddit reveal, writes Megan Carpentier.
Justice Minister Jeff Radebe has welcomed a ruling against a judgment that a man could not be sentenced because of a flaw in the Sexual Offences Act.
For most women, being HIV-positive makes them victims of many forms of violence, a new report has found. Aneesa Fazel reports.
The Western Cape education department says a boy who underwent initiation while on a school rugby tour never claimed he was sexually assaulted.
The father of a boy who claimed he was raped during a school rugby tour has slammed the Western Cape education department’s investigation.
Recent allegations about the rape initiation of a pupil at a rugby camp raises the question of why such practices exist in our supposedly modern era.
A 16-year-old Tygerberg boy was allegedly raped on a school rugby tour, and authorities have done nothing to help, says the Beeld.
In the wake of the recent gang rape of a teen, <b>Jen Thorpe</b> explores what it will take to solve the problem of sexual violence in our society.
Soweto police has said the 17-year-old girl filmed being gang raped by at least seven males has been found.
Seven schoolboys have been arrested after a video of the gang rape of a missing 17-year-old girl went viral.
Protests have erupted in Morocco over the case of teenager Amina Filali who killed herself after a court ordered her to marry her alleged rapist.
Widespread allegations of manipulated crime statistics have risen in Paarl but the police officers responsible will probably get away with it.
Research reveals that rape survivors have little access to information about prophylaxis, a vital drug in minimising the chances of contracting HIV.
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/ 6 December 2011
A study by an advocacy centre has found the media is failing to sufficiently cover the laws, issues and policies relating to violence against women.
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/ 25 November 2011
As the 16 days of activism campaign kicked off in South Africa, the UN has called for zero tolerance for violence against women.
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/ 24 November 2011
Despite boasting Africa’s first female president and a Nobel prize for women’s rights, Liberia’s women are still vulnerable to the threat of rape.
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/ 1 November 2011
The Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust, which has helped more than 5000 women in the past two years, may be forced to reduce its services — or close.
Violence, dismal healthcare and brutal poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country for women.
Last Friday, Zapiro published his third cartoon in a series that invokes a rape metaphor to describe government violations of democratic institutions.
A Uruguayan rugby player on tour in SA was granted R20 000 bail on Tuesday, after being charged with raping a woman in his hotel room.