While on holiday, 72-year-old Keith Morris used his elevated status among villagers to groom young girls
The campaign and a new ConCourt judgment offer survivors a chance at justice
The ruling follows a Johannesburg High Court case brought by eight men and women last year
A 10-year veteran of the education campaigners, Luyulo Mazwembe, worked in the Western Cape office before moving to Johannesburg in 2016
Former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to New York police authorities on May 25
The R&B artist is accused of sexual battery, false imprisonment and failure to disclose a sexually transmitted disease
The Vatican finance chief has become the highest-ranked Catholic ever to be sent to trial over historic sex offences
A 52-year-old says the church wouldn’t investigate but, with the help of the dean of St George’s Cathedral, he faced his abuser
French group Doctors Without Borders is the latest to join in the scandal over sexual abuse in the foreign aid industry
Besides creating a platform for victims of sexual predation, the goal is to alter social interaction
Readers write in about posthumous defamation, and fact checking before publishing articles
This is the harshest sentence ever handed down for human trafficking in South Africa and marked the culmination of a two-year long trial
UN head Antonio Guterres has tapped Jane Connors to put victims first as she works to eliminate sexual exploitation committed by peacekeeping troops.
A mother and daughter appear to have been failed by the very agencies meant to protect them
A court ruling has lifted the time limit on reporting sexual assault. Prior to the ruling, we asked survivors how such a ruling would impact them.
In Diepsloot, Bhekisisa’s Vimba! app is helping rape survivors access life-saving care and treatment.
Eight men and women may change the law and pave the way to justice and healing for thousands.
Most culprits get a light slap for dismissible offences, some of which are criminal.
A film about the sexual abuse of one woman should be the start of a movement to say: ‘No!’
One in four people living in the EU say rape may be justified "under certain circumstances", according to a new report.
It’s difficult to speak out but their evidence can help to change laws and provide justice and support.
South Africa’s first national study on the incidence of child sexual abuse reports on the extent of crimes committed against local youth.
One in three South African boys have experienced some form of sexual abuse in their lifetime.
An ongoing rape scandal is casting a dark cloud over an occasion usually reserved for paying tribute to the ‘Blue Helmets’.
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.
Three organisations have launched a handbook, "My Teacher Hurt Me, What Should I Do?", that aims to "manage sexual abuse in schools".
A group of survivors of sexual violence committed after Kenya’s violence-hit 2007 elections has taken the government to court.
The Vatican says a blunt UN report on sexual abuse of children by clergy was distorted and that the UN has been influenced by pro-gay marriage NGOs.
Security forces may be trying to silence both rape survivors and the organisations that assist them.
Mariella Furrer confronts her demons in her book, "My Piece of Sky", as she untangles the horror of child sexual abuse. (Trigger warning)
President Jacob Zuma has marked the launch of 16 days of no violence against women and children, saying the crimes have no place in society.
Oscar Pistorius’s shooting of Reeva Steenkamp and Cezanne Visser’s parole turns us into denialists, writes Verashni Pillay.