sexual violence

Oscar-winning Polish-French director Roman Polanski, photographed in Chanceaux-près-Loches, central France, in August 28, 2016. (AFP/Guillaume Souvant)

August 30, 2019, 2:21 pm

The Polanski case: What we know after 40 years

Director’s new film about anti-Semitic persecution of French army officer is overshadowed by rape case

By AFP

A Saudi woman displays her new driver's license in 2018. (Saudi Information Ministry/ via AP)

July 28, 2019, 3:20 am

Rising from ashes of Arab Spring, women lead a first Muslim feminist revolution

The often violent upheaval sweeping the Middle East in the last decade has also spurred women to cling to gains earned as they fight, and rebuild, alongside men

By Ksenia Svetlova

Pope Francis reacts during the weekly general audience on February 6, 2019 at Paul-VI hall in the Vatican. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)

February 6, 2019, 3:15 pm

Nuns ‘sex slaves’ scandal deals fresh blow to Catholic church

In first, Pope Francis acknowledges priests and bishops were sexually abusing nuns, and it’s ‘still going on’

By Ella Ide

Peace Price laureates Nadia Murad (left) and Dr. Denis Mukwege at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo Town Hall, Oslo, December 10, 2018 (Berit Roald / NTB scanpix via AP)

December 10, 2018, 6:14 pm

Nobel Peace winners urge global action against sexual violence

Dr. Denis Mukwege of Congo and Nadia Murad of Iraq call for repercussions for perpetrators, reparations for victims

By david keyton and Jim Heintz

Israeli singer Eyal Golan (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

December 10, 2018, 2:39 pm

Knesset honor to go ahead for singer who faced underage sex allegations

Associates of MK Nava Boker say award for Eyal Golan relates to his music, not his character; 5 lawmakers say honor ‘spits in the faces of victims of sexual violence’

By TOI staff

Singer Eyal Golan performing at an Independence Day concert in Beit Shemesh on May 5, 2014. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

December 8, 2018, 10:32 am

MKs demand Knesset drops honor for singer who faced underage sex allegations

Lawmakers say award for Eyal Golan ‘spits in the faces of victims of sexual violence,’ ask Edelstein to intervene

By TOI staff

Illustrative image of a victim of sexual harassment holding a note with the text 'me too.' (nito100/iStock by Getty Images)

October 10, 2018, 5:46 pm

Sharp increase in Israelis contacting rape crisis centers after #WhyIDidntReport

Data shows more than 50% surge — 100% among men — in calls, after social media campaign sparked by Trump’s criticism of Christine Blasey Ford

By Michael Bachner

In this file photo taken on June 21, 2016, human rights activist Nadia Murad arrives at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Getty Images North America/Mark Wilson)

October 5, 2018, 1:21 pm

Nadia Murad: From jihadists’ slave to global champion for women

At 25, the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate has become a renowned campaigner against sexual violence as a weapon of war, and for fellow Yazidi victims of Islamic State

By Sarah Benhaida

In this file photo taken on March 18, 2015, Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege poses at Panzi Hospital, on the outskirts of Bukavu, DR Congo. (AFP Photo/Marc Jourdier)

October 5, 2018, 12:58 pm

Denis Mukwege: Brave healer of Congo’s most horrific wounds

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a crusading gynecologist, calls for drawing ‘a red line against rape as a weapon of war’

By Samir TOUNSI

Nobel Peace Prize 2018 winners Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege, left, and Nadia Murad, public advocate for the Yazidi community in Iraq and survivor of sexual enslavement by the Islamic State jihadists. (AFP)

October 5, 2018, 12:22 pm

Nobel Peace Prize honors fight against sexual violence, in nod to #MeToo

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi former captive of the Islamic State, and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege honored for combating sexual violence as a ‘weapon of war’

By AP

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