German police have confiscated a robot after it allegedly touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements towards her on a street in Cologne, prompting an investigation into possible
German police have confiscated a robot after it allegedly touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements towards her on a street in Cologne, prompting an investigation into possible
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A decade after South Korea shut down Soranet, a notorious online network that distributed secretly filmed and non-consensual sexual videos, authorities are still confronting a succession of websites and online communities accused
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A closed fraternity house at Cornell University has become the centre of a renewed US debate over sexual violence on college campuses after a 101-page civil lawsuit alleged that seven members of
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The alleged group rape of a Cornell University student has become one of the most serious scandals in the 161-year history of the elite New York institution, while also exposing a legal
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Turkey has released 106 demonstrators detained during a protest against a nationwide crackdown on LGBTQ people, activists and organisations, while courts have continued to order the detention of others in an expanding
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For Dani Bensky, the story began long before Jeffrey Epstein became one of the most notorious names in America’s history of sexual abuse and trafficking. It began when she was 17, a
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A former JPMorgan Chase banker has expanded his lawsuit against the United States’ largest bank, filing an amended complaint that adds new defendants and fresh allegations of racial discrimination, sexual coercion and
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The Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court has voted to remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan following allegations of sexual misconduct, marking the first dismissal of a chief prosecutor in
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A years-long online forum that amassed millions of users by hosting and monetising alleged non-consensual intimate images has been taken offline after an investigation by Bellingcat and New Zealand news outlet The
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The Archdiocese of San Francisco has agreed to pay $395 million to resolve 530 claims of child sexual abuse, bringing to a close one of the largest Catholic Church abuse settlements in
More Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has been suspended with immediate effect by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties, which represents the court’s 125 member
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Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who waived her anonymity during the trial of her former husband Dominique Pelicot, has warned that pornography is a “scourge” on society that is shaping children’s understanding
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A prominent professor at the University of Cambridge has been stripped of a prestigious college fellowship following an investigation that upheld multiple allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct. Herbert Huppert, an 82-year-old
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The phrase “non-financial misconduct” sounds almost comically bland for a category of behaviour capable of shaking the world’s largest corporations. Yet inside boardrooms from New York to London, those three words —
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A highly unusual sexual harassment lawsuit involving JPMorgan Chase has gripped Wall Street and spilled into mainstream culture, after claims surfaced that a male former investment banker was subjected to coercive and
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