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A new report has highlighted ‘systemic’ verbal, emotional and sexual abuse of women’s soccer players. Many feared retaliation if they spoke out, while others didn’t think it was their place.
From partying in California to activism in Australia, Grace Tame refuses to be defined by past traumatic events. The voice of her memoir, writes Camilla Nelson, is irrepressible.
Campaigners argue that victims of ‘revenge porn’ need to be acknowledged as victims of sexual abuse.
For many female runners, the feeling of liberation that running can bring is marred by the ever-present threat of street harassment and violence. It’s a major obstacle to running participation.
The lack of sexuality education, and common myths and misconceptions about the sexuality of people with intellectual disability can lead to caregivers being reluctant ‘jailers’.
DRC has the highest number of allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers – yet no systematic research on the claims of their abandoned children has existed until now.
The EU’s proposed regulations don’t align with existing technology. They’re likely to fail – or to break the internet as we know it.
Accused men were protected by the SBC while the women who dared to speak up were called sluts, adulteresses, Jezebels and even agents of Satan. A scholar of evangelicalism writes about this culture.
The term ‘grooming’ is often misused or misunderstood, but its scope reaches far beyond child abuse.
The show has been marketed as a feminist reclaiming, but at an emotional and traumatic cost to Pamela Anderson.
A German report accused retired Pope Benedict XVI of mishandling several cases of sexual abuse in the 1970s and 1980s. Here are a few of our related articles on the Catholic Church’s crisis.
It feels like history was made in 2021. But it is hard to argue there has been concrete change at Parliament House … yet.
The #MeToo movement has allowed survivors of sexual abuse to be heard in the public space. Children, however, remain voiceless.
When directors are hand-picked by CEOs, it’s a recipe for disaster.
WHO’s safeguarding failure in the DRC has re-focused attention on the sexual misconduct that surfaces with disgraceful regularity in humanitarian, development, and peacekeeping operations worldwide.
Sexual exploitation and abuse requires an active rather than passive response.
The former R&B star faces the possibility of life in prison after being found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking. The trial exposed the role of enablers within his inner circle, too.
Data from the UK Musician’s Union shows that half of their members have experienced sexual harassment at work.
Tokyo will feature the most female athletes ever at an Olympics. But the Games do not have a good track record when it comes to gender equality.
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Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Yale University
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Associate professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, Durham University
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Associate Supervisor in Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Huddersfield
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Former Director, National Centre for Social Research
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