Category: Sexual violence

UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide

Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El FasherBritain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El...

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Labour MP ‘receives death threats’ after Tory MP posts video on grooming gangs inquiry

Anna Dixon accuses fellow West Yorkshire MP Robbie Moore of sharing misinformation about her position on issueA Labour MP has said she has been subjected to death threats and online misogynistic abuse after a video was shared by...

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Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

Exclusive: Activist claims she was threatened with release of the footage in order to silence her, amid multiple reports of sexual violence inflicted upon imprisoned Afghan womenThe Guardian has seen video evidence of a female...

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UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group

Exclusive: Rights groups denounce negotiations with Rapid Support Forces, accused of ethnic cleansing and war crimesInside South Sudan’s worsening refugee crisis – in picturesForeign Office officials are holding...

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‘Like I wasn’t a person’: Ethiopian forces accused of systematic rape in Tigray

Mutilation, slavery and torture of women and girls detailed in accounts published by Amnesty, in what organisation says could amount to war crimesWarning: this article contains graphic details of sexual violence that readers may...

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Quarter of women and girls have been abused by a partner, says WHO

Largest such study finds domestic violence experienced by one-in-four teenage girls with worst levels faced by women in their 30s One in four women and girls around the world have been physically or sexually assaulted by a...

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