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/topic/womens-rights/sexual-violence
Jan 14, 2026 · Italy’s new draft law on sexual violence represents a serious step backward from a consent-based approach to addressing sexual abuse. Rather than consolidating co
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/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/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/2024/08/15/doctors-rape-murder-in-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/reports/2001/prison/report4.html
Sep 3, 1996 · Unsurprisingly--given that physical force, or at least the implicit threat of physical force, is a common element of rape in prison--victims of rape tend to be small
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/report/2017/11/16/all-my-body-was-pain/sexual-violence-against-rohingya-women-and-girls-burma
Nov 16, 2017 · This report documents the Burmese military’s gang rape of Rohingya women and girls and further acts of violence, cruelty, and humiliation. Many women described wi
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/20/dr-congo-new-findings-prison-mass-rape
Sep 20, 2021 · Democratic Republic of Congo authorities have made no apparent progress investigating the September 2020 prison riot at Kasapa Central Prison in Lubumbashi.