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Few states permit the death penalty for non-homicide crimes.

The number of sex attacks in the Armed Forces has doubled in the last three years with more than half perpetrated by junior ranks, The Telegraph can disclose.

This sentiment comes after a 15-year-old rape victim was turned away from a clinic in the Eastern Cape and then made to wait at a police station, where she later died.

Academics hope the policy will shift the focus of investigations from victims to suspects.

The HC had also directed a Medical Board consisting of a gynecologist, pediatrician and psychologist to give an opinion on the fitness of the victim in the present case to undergo medical termination of pregnancy

After its launch in 2013, the first revision of the scheme was completed in 2017 when the grant was raised to Rs 10 lakh. In 2020, it was decided that acid and rape victims (women & children), victims of inflammable substances should also be included under it

NBC News has reviewed evidence that suggests dozens of Israeli women were raped, sexually abused or mutilated during the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks.

Israel accused the UN on Monday of moving too slowly to respond to accounts that Hamas carried out widespread sexual violence against women in its Oct. 7 attack.

The high court was hearing an appeal against the order of the Special POCSO Court convicting a father of sexually assaulting his own minor daughter

Ohio lawmaker's rationale for voting against protecting victims of marital rape is more disgraceful, disrespectful and disgusting than it seems.