Harvey Weinstein appeared disheveled during a court hearing Wednesday. The former film producer requested an earlier trial ...

The worsening conflict in eastern Congo has led to a surge in human rights violations including summary executions, the ...

A former adviser to the US government who flew to the UK to rape whom he believed to be a nine-year-old child has been ...

Jay-Z is seeking attorney sanctions over a "Jane Doe" lawsuit that accuses him and Diddy of raping a 13-year-old girl after ...

During one weekend alone, the Salt Lake City-based Utah Rape Recovery Center saw 29 victims. While overall crime has decreased in Utah in recent years, reports of rape and sexual assault are on ...

A criminalist holds a rape kit at the LAPD’s crime lab at the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center in Los Angeles. Photo: Getty Images This is an excerpt from The Secret History of the Rape ...

Women always have the right to say no to any sexual involvement. Rape is defined as sexual intercourse without the consent of both parties. Like domestic violence, rape and sexual assault are ...

1. BIOLOGICAL THEORY: Randy Thornhill, The Biology of Human Rape, 39 Jurimetrics J. 137(1999) at 143: Selection, or differential reproductive success among individuals due to trait differences, is the ...

The Israeli government has given evidence to the United Nations claiming Hamas militants used rape and sexual violence against women during the 7 October atrocities. First responders and mortuary ...

“We don’t kill the women and the girls,” the soldiers told Mary. “They said they would only rape us. As if rape were different than death,” says Mary, speaking in a safe house in ...

An Indian court on Monday sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison after finding him guilty in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor last year, a crime that sparked nationwide protests ...

Harvey Weinstein begged the court to push his trial date forward as he battles cancer. Judge Curtis J. Farber set Weinstein's rape retrial for April 15 during Wednesday's hearing. However, the ...