Afia (not her real name) was not accompanied by any of her family members, but she showed no signs of jitters. While many in the vessel turned pale in panic due to want of food and water in the perilous sea, the beautiful young girl held her nerves.

The Delhi government will withdraw its earlier circular which ruled out the banning of the controversial two-finger test on rape survivors.

Amid countrywide outrage and concern over sexual abuse against women, a girl has been gang-raped in Gazipur’s Kaliganj.

Bollywood actress Sunny Leone visits the cyber crime cell of the Thane Police to record a statement in an obscenity case filed earlier this month.

It is a rare sense of relief to note that the Rab has been able to arrest two men in connection with the gang-rape of a young Garo woman a few days ago.

Rights organisations have been protesting the insensitivity and sometimes discrimination shown by law enforcers when dealing with cases of sexual assault and rape.

Condemning the gang-rape of the Garo woman on the night of April 21, eminent citizens of the country say the culture of lack of justice is what drives these incidents.

High Court orders government to make sure that police accept any rape complaint and give services to all victims without discrimination.

The High Court orders government to exhume and examine body of the Bangladeshi citizen who was allegedly killed after rape in India two months ago.

Boko Haram militants rape hundreds of women and girls in Nigeria as a deliberate strategy to dominate rural residents and possibly even create a new generation of Islamist militants.

WHAT is as deplorable as the sexual assault and the attempted rape on a minor at a higher secondary school recently is the way the school authorities have handled the matter.

Police in northern California have launch a massive manhunt for a 'bold' would-be rapist who tried to attack a 13-year-old girl as she was opening her door to return home.

A college teacher has been arrested in Gazipur for allegedly raping one of his students.

War criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman will not be hanged tonight, authorities of Dhaka Central Jail say.

THERE is something fundamentally wrong with men (and women) who rape.

Indian artists Uppekha Jain and Pankhuri Awasthi use rap to fight against 'regressive mindsets' that goes viral

Lok Sabha on Tuesday witnessed heated exchanges between members who expressed anger at the gang-rape of a 71-year-old nun in West Bengal.

Eight men have been detained by police investigating the rape of an elderly nun in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Eight men have been detained by police investigating the rape of an elderly nun in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Writer, historian and war crimes researcher Shahriar Kabir talks about...