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84-year-old woman endures attempted rape and assault
Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 30/09/2025
» SAMUT PRAKAN - An 84-year-old woman has been left seriously injured after being assaulted and subjected to an attempted rape inside her home.
Low-paid women still waiting for their #MeToo moment
AFP, Published on 25/09/2025
» BORDEAUX, France - “You need the work,” one woman said, “so you shut your mouth.” #MeToo may have helped change the landscape for women in Hollywood and in the boardroom, but cleaners, secretaries and supermarket workers who have suffered sexual violence at work say it has yet to do much for them.
Domestic violence victims protection bill promoted
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/09/2025
» Civil society groups are stepping up efforts to advance a draft domestic violence victims protection bill while urging the new government to prioritise the issue.
Harrowing tales as Kony war crimes trial opens
AFP, Published on 09/09/2025
» THE HAGUE - Villages torched, young girls forced into sexual slavery, women abandoning babies to flee for their lives: the International Criminal Court Tuesday heard harrowing stories of atrocities allegedly committed by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda.
'My boss raped me': Japanese prosecutor's fight for justice
AFP, Published on 11/08/2025
» OSAKA - Very few women in Japan speak out about rape, and Hikari, too, kept quiet for years about her alleged assault by her boss, Osaka's former chief prosecutor.
Survivors of Bosnia ‘rape camps’ come forward 30 years on
AFP, Published on 17/06/2025
» SARAJEVO - It took years for Zehra Murguz to be able to testify about what happened to her and other Muslim women in the “rape camps” run by Serb forces during the war in Bosnia.
French surgeon gets maximum term for abusing hundreds of children
AFP, Published on 28/05/2025
» VANNES, France - A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, during more than two decades.
Highlights from Cannes as film festival wraps up
AFP, Published on 25/05/2025
» CANNES (FRANCE) - As the Cannes film festival hands out its prizes, AFP looks back at some of the highlights of a politically charged fortnight of screenings and celebrity sightings.
South African data counter ‘genocide’ claims
AFP, Published on 23/05/2025
» JOHANNESBURG - South Africa does not face a “white genocide” and claims that most victims of murders on farms are white are a distortion of statistics, the police minister said on Friday, dismissing statements by US President Donald Trump.
Korat man arrested for years-long sexual abuse of girl
Online Reporters, Published on 21/05/2025
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA - A 56-year-old man has been arrested for the repeated rape of a young girl over the span of three years, after her grandfather, a former close friend of the suspect, sought help from a child welfare foundation.