"Brendan is amazingly courageous in telling this. His assault experience is extremely similar to mine - ending with the assailant explaining away his actions. One mans 'horseplay' is another man’s humiliation." The actor Brendan Fraser is joining the #MeToo movement. In an interview with GQ, published today, Fraiser said that Philip Berk, a former president of the HFPA, assaulted him in the summer of 2003.

About four million French women - 12% of the total - have been raped at least once in their lives, a survey suggests. The study for the Fondation Jean Jaurès, a Paris-based think tank, also says 43% have been subjected to sexual touching without their consent. Like many other countries, France has seen women take to social media to highlight abuse in recent months.

Speaking on his radio program this Friday, Pastor Kevin Swanson took on the case of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who sexually abused over 150 of the women and girls he treated over a period of years. According to Swanson, Nassar’s abuse was partly influenced by the “fair amount of immodesty” within the gymnastics world.

California Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, the head of the Legislative Women’s Caucus and a leading figure in the state’s anti-sexual harassment movement, is accused of groping a male staffer from another lawmaker’s office, according to a report published Thursday.

“She was the rock that tipped the avalanche of strength and courage and all these women coming forward”

Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison in his sexual abuse case. The 54-year-old appeared in court in Lansing, Michigan, on Wednesday, January 24, for the seventh day of his criminal sentencing hearing. More than 150 victims delivered powerful impact statements in that time, detailing how Nassar abused and manipulated them over the years.

CNN host Ashleigh Banfield has come to Aziz Ansari’s defence after the comedian was accused of sexual misconduct. Over the weekend, Babe.net published an account from a Brooklyn photographer accusing Ansari, 34, of sexual assault. In the piece, the accuser claimed that the “Master of None” star ignored numerous non-verbal “cues” indicating that she “wasn’t interested” in having sex; the accuser admitted that she willingly engaged in oral sex with the comedian afterwards.

How did a movement for women’s empowerment become an emblem for female helplessness?

"Writing-off non-consensual encounters like this one as ‘bad dates’ minimizes a traumatic experiences," one expert says.

The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a sexual assault investigation against actor Steven Seagal over an allegation said to have taken place in 2005. A spokesperson for the LAPD has said a complaint is currently being handled by the Robbery-Homicide Division; they confirmed it to be an allegation of sexual assault, although no more information was offered. "All we can do is confirm that there's an open investigation from 2005," they added.

2017 will go down in history as the year mainstream discourse on sexual violence was finally forced to confront the universal impunity enjoyed by perpetrators of assault. Unfortunately, these global developments have failed to trigger any corresponding debate on the inability of Pakistan’s criminal justice system to provide redress to survivors.

Allegations against the comedian are proof that women are angry, temporarily powerful—and very, very dangerous.

The founders of MormonLeaks, a transparency organization that has released hundreds of controversial documents related to inner-workings of the Mormon Church, recently launched FaithLeaks, an ambitious and far-reaching project that aims to expose corruption and abuse across other religious organizations. Today, the new group has published dozens of pages of documents related to sexual assault allegations within the Jehovah’s Witness Church, documents which are presumably part of a database that church...

The #MeToo movement forced a top Norwegian politician to step down from his job as the deputy leader of the country’s biggest opposition party after allegations of misconduct. Trond Giske, 51, said late on Sunday that he will step down as deputy leader of the Labor Party and as its economic policy spokesman.

A man from India is accused of sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman Wednesday while she slept against a window on a flight from Las Vegas to Detroit, according to federal court filings. Prabhu Ramamoorthy appeared Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit after the Spirit Airlines flight arrived at Metro Airport. He faces a charge of aggravated sexual abuse.

One guest at the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle opened his door naked and urged housekeeper Ely Dar to come in. Another offered her money in exchange for a massage. A guest once told her she was beautiful, then grabbed her in a hug from behind and called after her when she ran away.

Sanders’ calls have come following last week’s resignation of Democractic Senator Al Franken, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by several women. Sen. Bernie Sanders has reiterated his call for US President Donald Trump to leave office over the sexual misbehavior allegations against him.

The producer Harvey Weinstein relied on powerful relationships across industries to provide him with cover as accusations of sexual misconduct piled up for decades.

Netflix has finally chosen to sever ties—at least partially—with the actor Danny Masterson, the star of their hit series The Ranch who has been accused of rape by at least four women. “As a result of ongoing discussions, Netflix and the producers have written Danny Masterson out of The Ranch. Yesterday was his last day on the show, and production will resume in early 2018 without him,” read a statement from a Netflix spokesperson.

Anthony Rapp, the Star Trek: Discovery actor who was first to accuse Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct, is sharing some of the hostile messages he's received from people blaming him for the end of House of Cards. Rapp, who says Spacey made sexual moves on him in his New York apartment in 1986 when Rapp was a 14-year-old stage actor, has said little in public since he told his story to BuzzFeed in October, setting off a rash of allegations from more than a dozen men who accused Spaced of sexual misconduct.