When rape becomes a crime

The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, has given his generals and admirals an unusual command: spend money. Lots of it. Quickly. For years, it was the other way around. Canada wore the uniform of a serious NATO ally – while undershooting the alliance’s 2% of GDP defence spendi ...  Show more

Architect Mariam Issoufou has always been very ambivalent about museums: "Who decided that the only way to look at art is inside this intimidating, grand building, full of looted objects? For me, they are where history goes to die". So she was sceptical about accepting the job of ...  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