Prosecutors in Lille said Friday that a Belgian escort allegedly performed sex acts against her will at a 2010 gathering attended by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which could implicate him in a gang rape. Strauss-Kahn denies the claims.
Seven men appeared in a South African court Thursday for gang-raping a mentally handicapped 17-year old girl and using a cell phone camera to video the act, touching a raw nerve in a country where over 180 sexual assaults take place daily.
Libya is still facing violence as tribal clashes undermine the country’s fledgling democracy. In Morocco, women's rights activists continue to pile pressure on the government to do away with laws that led to the suicide of a teen forced to marry her rapist. And hundreds of Moroccans working onboard an impounded ship in France anxiously await their fate.
An American NGO tracking sex crimes in Syria. Dmitry Medvedev’s cat sets Russia’s online community abuzz. And France’s National Audiovisual Institute to share content with YouTube.
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's claim that he was protected by diplomatic immunity against allegations of sexual assault will be tested in a New York hearing this week, paving the way for possible civil action, it was reported Sunday.
Some 200 Moroccan women protested outside parliament on Saturday, calling for changes to the penal code that allows rapists to avoid jail if the victim's family consents to their marriage. The protest followed the suicide of a rape victim.
A Moroccan government minister on Thursday called for changes to a law that allows a rapist to marry his victim to escape prosecution after a teenager who was forced into such a marriage killed herself last week by drinking rat poison.
Hotels in New York City have agreed to approve a hotel union request to give housekeepers personal panic buttons. The move comes after a Sofitel hotel maid accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape last May.
In the last few years, South Africa has seen an unprecedented wave of sexual attacks on homosexual women. Some victims have decided to start talking about it, openly, in order to put a stop to it.
France 24 journalists Zoé Lamazou and Sarah Leduc have won a Bayeux-Calvados War Journalism prize in the category of web journalism for their documentary on rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
