Police investigating the mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year’s Eve claim they were ordered to remove the word “rape” from their initial report. Local officers had produced an internal “important event” memo entitled “rape, sexual harassment, thefts, committed by a large group of foreign people” – the first indication of the scale of the incident which would go on to make headlines around the world.

A Virginia judge has ruled that the woman at the center of Rolling Stone's discredited story about an alleged frat house gang rape must testify as part of a lawsuit against the magazine. The woman identified only as "Jackie" will be deposed on Thursday by attorneys representing Rolling Stone and Nicole Eramo, the University of Virginia administrator who is suing the magazine and the author of the now-retracted article, Sabrina Rubin Erdely.

There are two very different accounts of what happened the evening of May 30, 2014, at the elite prep school between 18-year-old scholar-athlete Owen Labrie and a 15-year-old freshman girl. By Todd S. Purdum.

A U.N. report describing sweeping crimes against children, the disabled being burned alive and fighters being allowed to rape women as payment shows South Sudan is facing "one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world," the U.N. human rights chief said Friday. Zeid Raad al-Hussein lamented the crisis in the nearly 5-year-old country has been largely overlooked by the international community, and his...

According to data provided by Uber to BuzzFeed News, the company received five claims of rape, and “fewer than” 170 claims of sexual assault directly related to an Uber ride as inbound tickets to its customer service database between December 2012 and August 2015. Uber provided these numbers as a rebuttal to screenshots obtained by BuzzFeed News. The images which were provided by a former Uber customer...

“Word choice is hard here. Should we say ‘raped’ automatically if a grown man has sex with a teenager? Does it matter at all if the 15-year-old, now much older, describes their encounter as one of the best nights of her life? What is our word for a ‘yes’ given on a plane that’s almost vertically unequal? Does contemporary morality dictate that we trust a young woman when she says she consented freely, or believe that she couldn’t have, no matter what she says?” By Jia Tolentino.

Nearly 50,000 people have signed a petition calling for the Scottish government to ban events planned by a self-described pick-up artist who has said rape should be legal. Daryush Valizadeh says he has organised nine meetups – although he will not be present – for followers across the UK this weekend, including in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and Cardiff. Cat Boyd started the petition on Monday, calling on politicians in Holyrood to stop Valizadeh...

Sergey Lavrov has weighed in on the case of a Russian-German teenage girl who alleges she was kidnapped and raped by migrants in Berlin. German police so far reject the girl's version of events. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov demanded a full explanation from German authorities during his annual address on Tuesday, saying it was clear the 13-year-old didn't "voluntarily disappear for 30 hours." "The information was covered up for a very...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby, a cultural icon who once stood among America's most beloved figures, suffered the latest and most serious blow to his forever mixed legacy, as he walked slowly into a Pennsylvania courthouse holding a cane and answered to charges that he drugged and sexually assaulted a woman. It was a moment Wednesday in stark contrast to a reputation built over half a century, merging the personal and professional into one potent, ...

Police say quick thinking by the victim of a frightening abduction and assault helped them catch her attacker in the act. The attack happened early Monday in the back of an adult entertainment store. Officers say Robert Giles, 27, asked the victim to call her boyfriend so he could hear the assault.

A new legal measure passed in India could change the way teenagers are prosecuted in the country for cases of violent crimes, such as rape and murder. India's Parliament approved amendments to the country's long-standing juvenile law on Tuesday, paving the way for the prosecution of suspects, as young as 16 to18 years old, to be tried as adults if they are accused of such "heinous crimes."

An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins. By T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong.

Karla Jacinto is sitting in a serene garden. She looks at the ordinary sights of flowers and can hear people beyond the garden walls, walking and talking in Mexico City. She looks straight into my eyes, her voice cracking slightly, as she tells me the number she wants me to remember -- 43,200. By her own estimate, 43,200 is the number of times she was raped after falling into the hands of human traffickers.

Last week I arrived back home to Iraqi Kurdistan, exhausted but proud of a small but real triumph over the Islamic State. Three women and two toddlers came back with me—five human beings just rescued from enslavement by ISIL. For over a year, they were abused, raped and traded fighter to fighter because of one reason: our Yazid religion. I am determined to save every last one of the more than 2,000 Yazidi women...

I am thinking of the price list leaked out from the ISIS Sex Slave Market that included women and girls on the same list as cattle. ISIS needed to impose price controls as they were worried about a downturn in their market.

A woman made the choice to save the life of her rapist. Why? Susan Copestick, 56, manages to remain calm while reliving the moment in November last year when she effectively chose to save the life of Peter Drummond. Her former partner had held her at knifepoint and sexually assaulted her earlier that day. "There was a split second when I was watching for Peter to stop breathing, waiting for him to die. Then I stopped myself and thought 'no'.

Sudanese security forces gang-raped women in hospital, shot and burned civilians alive, and committed other appalling acts of torture during two military campaigns in Darfur, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, urging international peacekeepers to do more to stop the atrocities. In a new report – the latest detailing repeated horrors in Darfur – HRW quoted women who were gang-raped, and defectors from the...

Damon Wayans has made some controversial remarks about the Bill Cosby sexual assault allegations, calling it a “money hoax” by “unrapeable” women. Speaking in an interview with New York station Power 105’s “The Breakfast Club,” Wayans dismissed allegations, saying, “I just don’t believe it. I think it’s a money hustle.”

A village council ordered that they also be paraded naked with blackened faces.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is hailing a new state law that will prevent hospitals from billing survivors of sexual assault for medical forensic exams.