https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/15/sudan-fighters-rape-women-and-girls-hold-sex-slaves
Dec 16, 2024 · Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters and allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofa
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/30/france-redefines-rape-in-landmark-law
Oct 30, 2025 · France's Parliament has adopted a landmark law -that defines rape as any non-consensual sexual act, a significant milestone in the fight against sexual violence in
https://www.hrw.org/topic/womens-rights/sexual-violence
Dec 12, 2024 · In Ecuador one in four women experience sexual violence. Until April 2021, abortion after rape was criminalized unless the pregnant person had an intellectual disab
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/15/doctors-rape-murder-india-sparks-protests
Aug 15, 2024 · The laws against rape and sexual abuse were strengthened after a 2012 gang rape and murder in Delhi sparked nationwide protests.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/22/iran-security-forces-rape-torture-detainees
Apr 22, 2024 · Iran's security forces raped, tortured, and sexually assaulted detainees while repressing widespread protests in 2022 and 2023.
https://www.hrw.org/ja/news/2023/06/14/japan-should-recognize-nonconsensual-intercourse-rape
Jun 14, 2023 · 日本の参議院に現在提出されている法案は、刑法上のレイプの定義について「不同意性交等」と改正するもので、画期的
https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/02/18/forced-give-their-dreams/sexual-violence-against-girls-guatemala
Feb 18, 2025 · The 85-page report, “‘Forced to Give Up on Their Dreams’: Sexual Violence against Girls in Guatemala,” documents the numerous barriers that girls who are su
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/29/sudan-widespread-sexual-violence-capital
Jul 29, 2024 · Sudan’s warring parties, particularly the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have committed widespread acts of rape, including gang rape, and forced women and girls into
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/09/india-rape-victims-face-barriers-justice
Nov 9, 2017 · (New York) – Rape survivors in India face significant barriers to obtaining justice and critical support services, Human Rights Watch said in a report released tod
https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report5.html
Jan 31, 1999 · Daniel Lockwood, an expert on prison rape, has posited that sexual aggression in prison can be traced to men's sexist attitudes toward women, which, in prison, tran