Fury over the misogyny and hatred in social media is fuel in the fight for a better, equal world.
The judgement is the first to recognise sexual violence as a weapon of war, as well as the highest profile leader.
A US global fund has cut back on critical funding for services provided to survivors of violent crime. Government must provide a sustainable solution.
We’re subjected to enough horrors online – a rape simulator can’t simply go unchallenged
ANC’s interest in women’s rights seems to have evaporated when it is most needed.
It may be true that #NotAllMen rape, but enough do to make it a statistic.
‘Solidarity’ too often masks a culture of sexual coercion and assault by male activists.
United States Vice-President Joe Biden: “Any time consent is not or cannot be given, it is sexual assault and it is a crime.”
A group of Hilton College pupils are in hot water after a picture depicting a “mock rape” went viral on social media on Thursday.
Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.
Unless the rape crisis is tackled, it will backfire at us.
Patriarchy and men scarred by racism violate women to assert their masculinity.
In the shadow of some tall bushes, 70-year-old Bakazi Ndazimo was raped by two soldiers while neighbours quietly closed their curtains.
How to go beyond platitudes when it comes to teenage sexuality and abuse? One NGO has a solution: teach young women to know their worth and rights.
The issue reached boiling point when the National Democratic Alliance said it had no plans to criminalise marital rape despite a UN recommendation.
South Sudan’s army raped then torched girls alive inside their homes during a recent campaign notable for its "new brutality and intensity".
Part of the worries about a retracted Rolling Stone article is that it may inhibit other people from coming forward with their stories.
Yet serious errors by the prosecutor and the magistrate meant the high court had no choice but to reduce his sentence of life in prison.
Violent men can’t be dismissed as deviant; our society shapes such distorted masculinities.
Bolstering a weak life orientation curriculum is proposed as one of the ways of preventing abuse, including rape, in classrooms.
The pupils who attacked a boy, raping him with a broom handle, will appear in court on Friday. Meanwhile, the DA will protest at the school on Friday.
A superior court judge turned down a request from Polanski’s lawyers, who wanted a new hearing to try and close the case on procedural grounds.
To speak about sex in any form is taboo – unless it’s by those who make billions off it. This has plunged people into silence and vulnerability.
Comedian and actor Bill Cosby, who is accused of sexual abuse by a total of 15 women, may not be prosecuted for his alleged crimes.
A group of men doused a girl with kerosene and set her alight for resisting their attempts to molest her, after which she died of her injuries.
Abused women want the SAPS to act following the ruling about the country’s international remit.
Mounting allegations of rape and sexual assault against entertainer Bill Cosby has resulted in a Netflix special series on his life being postponed.
Changes in a pupil’s behaviour or work might be an indication that they are experiencing a problem they may find difficult to talk about.
The 25-year-old footballer served half his five-year sentence for rape and his old team is discussing the possibility of his return despite petitions.
If the human cost won’t, will the financial cost make government commit to a comprehensive national plan to combat gender-based violence?
My mother was raped by a church elder, something that would affect the rest of her life. This made what happened after, something even worse.
It wasn’t really about ‘impartial, objective’ judgment, but rather competing narratives.