Democracy Now!
| May 8, 2013
More than half of the 26,000 sex crimes reported in the military last year involved male victims, notes Anu Bhagwati, head of the Service Women's Action Network. The stat makes clear that rampaging sex assaults in the US armed forces are much more...
Associated Press
| May 7, 2013
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he's "disgusted" by the latest scandal to rock the military: the sexual battery bust of Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, who headed the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit. Sex assault is a "threa...
Press TV
| Apr 6, 2013
As cases of sexual assaults against women continue to rise in India, the number of foreign tourists has significantly declined over the past few months. A new study claims tourism in India has plunged by 25 percent and the number of female tourist...
The Wall Street Journal
| Mar 26, 2013
Just in time for Amanda Knox's book launch, Italy's Supreme Court has set aside her acquittal in the murder and sexual assault of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, six years ago in Perugia where the two were studying abroad. The case against Knox an...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 18, 2013
Two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio, have been found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl at a party last August. On Sunday, the teenagers, Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond, were found delinquent in the sexual assault of the girl w...
Euronews
| Mar 16, 2013
Sexual violence in India has resurfaced in the international spotlight as a police investigation has been launched into the gang rape of a Swiss tourist in India. Seven men were said to have been involved in the attack which took place after the S...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 8, 2013
President Obama has signed into law historic new protections for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with the expanded reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Initially passed in 1994, the bill lapsed in 2011 after Republica...
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Mosaic
| Feb 6, 2013
Numerous mob-led sexual assaults surfaced during the recent protests marking the second anniversary of the January 25th revolution in Egypt. Many activists believe that these attacks are an attempt to silence women and distance them from public a...
Associated Press
| Dec 10, 2012
Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn has settled a lawsuit filed against by him New York City hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo, whose sex attack accusation against him torpedoed Strauss-Kahn's political future. The settleme...
— May 16 at 05:33 am
...the Dimensions show chanting statistics and asking for change, sexual assault has been brought to the forefront of campus conversation. I have h...
Sexual assault is any involuntary sexual act in which a person is threatened, coerced, or forced to engage against their will, or any sexual touching of a person who has not consented. This includes rape, inappropriate touching, forced kissing, child sexual abuse, or the torture of the victim in a sexual manner.
In legal terms, sexual assault is a statutory offence in various jurisdictions, including United States, Canada, England and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. The legal definition of the crime of sexual assault is determined by each jurisdiction. Specific legal jurisdictions and research often use highly technical or detailed definitions of the term. In some places, such as New South Wales, the crime of sexual assault has replaced the traditional crime of rape, and is being defined as non-consensual penetrative sex. By contrast, in other jurisdictions, the crime deals with non-penetrative sexual contact.
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