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Rights groups attribute rampant cases to glaring loopholes in country-specific family laws.

Michael Bloomberg, the three-term Mayor of New York city and a billionaire philanthropist, was once quoted as saying that by the time he dies, he would have given away all his wealth to charity – so

Kathmandu, May 20 (EFE).- Hundreds of people on Friday protested on the issue of sexual violence against women in Nepal after a model alleged that she had been repeatedly subjected to sexual assault by organizers of an event when she was 16. “I was called to a hotel room and raped,” Sushmita Regmi recently said …

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New Delhi, May 11 (EFE).- An Indian court Wednesday gave a split verdict on marital rape, thus avoiding a definite ruling on criminalizing sex against the will and consent of a woman by the husband. Disappointed with the decision, the petitioners have decided to approach the top court, seeking criminalization of marital rape. Two judges …

The video circling around social media shows the teenagers appearing to harass two women

A 13-year-old girl who was allegedly gang-raped by four men in India, was allegedly raped again by a police officer after she tried to seek his help in reporting the initial attack.

At the occasion, the internationally renowned human rights activist and judge tries to answer the question: ‘How did you get from there to here?’

Women journalists around the world are experiencing an exponential increase in misogynistic online abuse, which poses a grave risk to women's media participation in the digital age.This is a gr

/PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Reuters today issued its 2021 Social Impact and ESG Report, which outlines the companys primary environmental, social and governance...