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Israelis take part in the annual SlutWalk march in central Tel Aviv, on May 4, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 4, 2018, 5:45 pm
Thousands take part in Tel Aviv SlutWalk against sexual violence
Protesters highlight victim blaming in sexual crime, carry posters of high-profile men convicted of sexual assault
By TOI staff
Clockwise from upper right: 'The Ballad of Marie Sanders, The Jew’s Whore,' by Nancy Spero; Half-Scale Study for Double Jeopardy from Holocaust Project—Studies/Ancillaries, by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman; 'Women in Birkenau Camp,' by Halina Olomucki, drawn secretly while imprisoned in 1945. (Courtesy Ronald Feldman Gallery)
April 13, 2018, 12:46 am
Groundbreaking exhibition depicts sexual violence against women in the Holocaust
Opening April 12, a group show sees artists shine light on a taboo facet of Holocaust history and draw attention to continuing sex crime in contemporary war zones
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: A 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by the Islamic State group and forcibly married to a militant in Syria sits on the floor of a one-room house she now shares with her family after escaping, October 8, 2014. (AP/Dalton Bennett, File)
March 10, 2018, 5:19 am
UN: Some rape victims of Islamic State are ‘like living corpses’
Envoy for world body decries 'a gross lack' of support for Iraqi women and girls raped and sold into slavery by jihadists
By Edith M. Lederer
Prime Minister's Bureau Chief Gil Sheffer (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 1, 2017, 4:55 pm
Police recommend charging PM’s ex-chief of staff for sexual offenses
Authorities say there is sufficient evidence to put Gil Sheffer on trial for 'indecent acts'
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his former chief of staff, Gil Sheffer, during a goodbye party for Sheffer at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem, March 9, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
December 1, 2016, 3:52 pm
Netanyahu’s ex-chief of staff named as aide held for sex offenses
Gil Sheffer questioned under caution and ordered to house arrest for 5 days following a month-long investigation
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the close associate accused of violence and sexual assault against an artist (Screenshot, Channel 2 News).
November 30, 2016, 10:02 pm
Close Netanyahu associate said under house arrest for sex offenses
‘Very senior‘ former official in PM‘s bureau questioned under caution, accused of violence, sexual assault of artist
By Sue Surkes
Leah Moz, Associate Director for Dialogue and Inclusion at Hillel International (left), and Sheila Katz, Vice President for Social Entrepreneurship at Hillel International, at a Title IX rally in Washington, DC. (Courtesy Hillel International)
November 1, 2016, 5:45 pm
White House partners with Hillel to fight campus sexual assault
One in five women, and one in 16 men, will be sexually assaulted while in college. With the It's On Us campaign, students intervene to arrest an epidemic
By Cathryn J. Prince
A mother cradles her new born baby in the Kovno ghetto hospital. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin)
May 5, 2016, 10:55 am
Groundbreaking study exhumes untold Nazi brutalization of women’s bodies
Author Beverley Chalmers says we owe it to victims and survivors to know the unspeakable crimes -- including rape, experimentation and forced abortion -- committed against them
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Police officers patrol in front of the main railway station of Cologne, Germany, on January 6, 2016. (AP/Hermann J. Knippertz)
January 7, 2016, 9:50 am
Cologne divided over whom to blame for mass New Year’s assaults
After 106 women come forward alleging sexual attacks by 'Arab-looking men,' fears of possible backlash against refugees
By Frank Jordans
This photo taken from video released by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network on Monday May 12, 2014 shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. photo credit: AP)
April 14, 2015, 7:58 am
UN condemns extremists’ use of rape, sexual slavery
Report details increase in sexual terror tactics, singles out Boko Haram for abducting 276 students in Nigeria
By Edith M. Lederer
An Iraqi Yazidi family that fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, sit at at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 5, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Safin Hamed)
December 14, 2014, 6:36 pm
Islamic State gives jihadis sex slavery manual
Graphic pamphlet lays out what is allowed (sexual violence, beatings, rape and child molestation) and what is not (hitting the face)
By Justin Jalil
UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets with Syrian refugee families in an undisclosed refugee camp close to the Syrian border in eastern Turkey Thursday, Sept. 13 (photo credit: AP/UNHCR, Jason Tanner)
May 29, 2014, 11:13 pm
Israeli NGO, Angelina Jolie to educate on gender-based violence
IsraAID will present a panel on its work in South Sudan at a London summit chaired by the actress and British FM William Hague
By Debra Kamin
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 24, 2014, 12:56 pm
Police probe veracity of charges against top minister
One evaluation of complainant's polygraph determined she was truthful, another that she had a tendency to lie
By TOI staff
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 24, 2014, 1:01 am
Top minister under investigation for sex offenses
Woman claims she was abused 15 years ago; suspect: I've never heard of her, this is political assassination
By TOI staff
The video shows a boy struggling to tell his mother what happened to him. (photo credit: Youtube)
October 30, 2013, 12:50 pm
Israeli rape crisis center gets animated in bid to help children
A new video, called 'Tom's Secret,' is meant to help parents spot the signs of sexual abuse
By Debra Kamin
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