When rape becomes a crime

The BBC's Russian service marks its eightieth anniversary this week. In eight decades, it has grown from a short wave radio service to a multimedia operation reaching upwards of 6 million people per week, despite ongoing blocking in Russia. As a 14-year-old boy Oleg Boldyrev disc ...  Show more

Lebanon’s citizens are again caught under fire. As many as a million people are displaced as they search for a place of safety and there are fears of a major humanitarian crisis. The attacks are being carried out by Israel, which says it is targeting Hezbollah – an Iranian-backed ...  Show more

One year on from the horrific attack in Delhi, Joanna Jolly hears from three women who've chosen to report a rape in a country that is at last waking up to the problem. The authorities have introduced tougher laws since the young student was raped on a bus last December but is th ...  Show more

Aujourd’hui en France, le viol est un crime quasiment impuni : seulement 1% des affaires de viol aboutissent à ...

Donna Palomba speaks out about her years-long journey for justice after being raped in her own home, and the fight to keep her assailant from walking free. Andrea Canning reports.

Nearly 14 years after her attack, Donna Palomba set out to help other survivors of sexual c ...

December 16th: Jyoti Singh Attacked(2012) Something as innocent as walking to the bus with a male friend shouldn’t place a target on a woman’s back. On December 16th 2012 a young woman with a bright future tried to go home after a movie and was brutally attacked for nothing more ...  Show more