In a statement to People magazine, the 62-year-old dismissed the allegations, in which a former employee accuses Brooks of rape and repeated unwanted sexual advances, including exposing himself and groping. “I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a […]
In the interview with Axios, the interviewer asked Imran Khan about the epidemic of sexual violence and rape in Pakistan and PM acknowledged the seriousness of the problem, and PM spoke about Pakistan’s strict laws. He also quoted as saying that the practice of women wearing veils “is to stop temptation not every man has […]
Pakistani women activists and Rights campaigners have accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of “Baffling ignorance” after the cricketer turned Politician blamed how women dress for a rise in rape cases. In a weekend interview on Live television; Oxford Educated Khan said an increase in Rape indicated the “consequences in any society where vulgarity is on […]
According to Superintendent of Police S Anand, the girl told investigators that three people tried to rape her in a field near Rai Kheda village on Monday and when they did not succeed; they poured kerosene and set her on fire. Police included the rape charge after the intervention of Moradabad senior superintendent of police […]
The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday that French actor Gerard Depardieu was charged last December with rape and sexual assault after authorities revived a 2018 investigation that was initially dropped. The office told the Associated Press news agency that the French actor was not detained when he was handed the preliminary charges on December […]
A 20-year-old woman was gang-raped allegedly by four persons, including a BJP functionary, in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district India, police said on Sunday. The ruling party later in the evening issued a statement; that the accused office-bearer had been removed from its primary membership. She was abducted in a four-wheeler, forced to drink liquor in […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported 2,297 cases of violence against women from 25 districts between January and December 2020, according to a recent report by the Aurat Foundation. This number is despite the challenge of under-reporting because of the coronavirus pandemic. The data shows that at the peak of the pandemic in July, cases of violence against […]
A 45-year-old woman was grievously injured after four men allegedly raped her and inserted an iron rod into her private parts in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Saturday night following which the woman has been undergoing treatment in a hospital in neighboring Rewa district; Amiliya police station […]
Years of condemnation on social media and chanting against the nonsensical two-finger test (TFT) at the Aurat March has finally given the women of Pakistan something to celebrate. The Lahore High Court’s (LHC’s) Justice Ayesha A Malik on January 4, 2021 passed a 30-page detailed judgment against the TFT. Declaring it an old practice of […]
The Lahore High Court ruled on Monday that the two-finger and hymen tests of rape survivors were “illegal and unconstitutional”. The verdict announced by LHC judge Justice Ayesha A Malik in a petition challenging the virginity tests of rape survivors. The 30-page verdict stated that the testing methods were “unscientific having no medical basis; therefore […]
