Rape and defilement have been documented as the most common violations against women in the East Africa and Great Lakes Region, a scenario that women activists fear...

I have interviewed women and even child survivors of sexual violence before, mostly during civil wars in conflict zones. Naturally, my heart went out to them. But when...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Monday for Congolese youth to lead nationwide protests against massive corruption and rampant sexual violence in...

Shocking but true, and before any of the anti-feminist jumps and shout with glee I told you so It is about men raping man in war ridden Congo. As per the reports...

Congolese authorities have failed to prevent widespread rapes, Human Rights Watch said in a new report, citing U.N. data showing 7,703 cases of sexual violence by the...

Sexual abuse of children has heightened at alarming levels in Pakistan. Every year, thousand of children fall prey to sexual violence including rape, sodomy, and...

One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone, and nearly half of them admitted more than one attack. The study, by the...

One of the things we can appreciate when we start to see the world as one single interconnected whole is the sometimes uncanny way in which we are all fundamentally...

The view of women as sexual prey has always been present in military culture. Civilian women have been seen as sexual booty for conquering soldiers since the beginning...

I wonder in which country one would accept a mass of 14,200 registered rape cases in two years, in one province only. Even worse: of which only 287 cases were taken to...