The Congress party has accused the NDA government in Bihar of presiding over a surge in crimes against women. Party leader Jairam Ramesh hi...

What is digital rape? A Medanta Hospital technician was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a flight attendant on a ventilator in th...

Rape and sexual violence are rampant in Sudan's civil war, with the UN accusing paramilitary groups, particularly RSF, of widespread abuses...

A UN panel accuses Israel of systematically destroying Gaza's healthcare through deliberate attacks, detaining and torturing Palestinian ci...

The Federation of All India Medical Associations plans to hold a peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, demanding justice for a tr...

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud led the Supreme Court in resuming the hearing of the Kolkata doctor-murder case. He urged protesting ...

Kolkata doctor rape case: FAIMA appealed to the Supreme Court for interim safety measures following a doctor’s rape and murder at RG Kar Ho...

The two-judge bench of Justices Chandrachud and Hima Kohli directed the Union Health Ministry to ensure that survivors are not subjected to...

The signed bills were few of the three dozen which the General Assembly had sent to Cooper in the last two working days of its session. Thi...

Counting assaults is a complicated exercise. Only about a third of claims the company received about penetration without consent were repor...

Dr Denis Mukwege & Nadia Murad were awarded for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.

Situated in a nondescript room of a government hospital, the largely non-publicised centre is helping survivors and their families, thanks ...

The guidelines issued under "Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012", say, among others, that there is no need for police re...

Union Health Ministry asked all hospitals to set up a designated room for forensic & medical examination of victims besides outlawing two-f...

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, which proposes jail term to a rape convict for his entire life, will be taken up tomorrow.The Criminal L...

"While more women are now joining the formal economy as a result, a corollary of these developments has been the heightened risk to their s...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today hoped Parliament would "urgently" pass amendments to strengthening criminal laws in 'crimes against wom...