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News Articles: sexual assault.

A photograph of a woman who says she was a victim of marital rape. She is posing outside near her home in New Delhi. The Delhi High Court is now considering petitions that call for the criminalization of marital rape.

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  • Global Health

Marital rape is still legal in India. A court decision could change that

Women's groups have petitioned the Delhi High Court to close a legal loophole and criminalize marital rape. A decision is expected soon. Men who oppose the petitions have gone on a "marriage strike."

February 08, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Protesters take part in the Women's March and Rally for Abortion Justice in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 2. The demonstration targeted Senate Bill 8, a state law that bans nearly all abortions as early as six weeks in a pregnancy, making no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest.

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  • Health

How the Texas ban on most abortions is harming survivors of rape and incest

The Texas law has no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest. Social workers say that's hurting some survivors financially, psychologically and physically.

November 16, 2021
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Zhou Xiaoxuan speaks to journalists and supporters on Sept. 14 outside the Haidian District People's Court in Beijing before a hearing in her case. She alleged that she was groped and forcibly kissed by prominent TV anchor Zhu Jun, who denies the allegations and has countersued for defamation. The court ruled there was not sufficient evidence of sexual harassment.

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  • Asia

Court Ruling Deals A Blow To China's Faltering #MeToo Movement

An intern accused a well-known TV anchor of forcibly kissing her. In a ruling this week, a Beijing court found that it could not determine whether sexual harassment had occurred.

September 15, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Alibaba's headquarters in Hangzhou, China. A female employee at the tech company is alleging that she was sexually assaulted by her manager.

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  • Asia

Rape Accusations At Alibaba Bring China's #MeToo Movement Back Into The Spotlight

A woman's account of her alleged rape by her manager at the Chinese tech company has gone viral, spurring conversations across the country about sexual abuse in the workplace.

August 13, 2021
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  • Emily Feng
The Baylor Bears take on West Virginia Mountaineers at McLane Stadium on Oct. 31, 2019 in Waco, Texas. In a new report, the NCAA says the culture of sexual violence and a lack of accountability spanned the entire Baylor University campus — both inside athletics and out.

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  • Sports

NCAA Won't Punish Baylor For Failing To Report Sexual Assault Claims Against Players

The ruling is the culmination of a five-year investigation undertaken by the NCAA following the eruption of the sexual assault scandal at the Christian university in Waco, Texas, in 2016.

August 12, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
Candles and flowers decorate a makeshift memorial for Vanessa Guillén, a Fort Hood, Texas, soldier whose 2020 killing put a spotlight on sexual harassment in the U.S. military.

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  • Politics

A Commission Finds 'Quite A Lot Of Tolerance' For Sexual Harassment In The Military

A new report says commanders need training to learn how to stop what an official described as "daily acts of demeaning language and sexual harassment" in the military.

July 02, 2021
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) (C) speaks during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on April 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. A bipartisan group of Senators gathered in support of the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act, which would move the decision to prosecute a member of the military from the chain of command to independent, trained, professional military prosecutors.

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  • Politics

Bill To Combat Sexual Assault In Military Finally Has Votes To Pass, Senators Say

The bill, long-championed by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, would dramatically reshape how the military addresses assault cases by removing them from the chain of command.

May 06, 2021
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  • Claudia Grisales
A special review panel says independent judge advocates, not commanding officers, should decide whether to pursue legal charges in sexual assault cases in what would be a break with longstanding policy. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is now reviewing the findings.

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  • National Security

Military Panel Urges Taking Sexual Assault Cases Out Of Commanders' Control

Such a shift would run counter to years of military practice. The Pentagon has long resisted the idea of taking sexual assault cases outside of the normal chain of command.

April 23, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan court on Feb. 21, 2020, during jury deliberations in his rape trial in New York. Weinstein was found guilty and is serving a 23-year sentence for sexually assaulting one woman and raping another. He is appealing the verdict while also facing rape and sexual assault charges in Los Angeles.

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  • Law

Federal Judge Rejects Harvey Weinstein's $19 Million Settlement With Alleged Victims

The judge on Tuesday said it was unfair to include women who'd merely met Weinstein with those making more grievous charges. "Your settlement would create inequality among all of those people."

July 15, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
The campus of the Macon Youth Detention Center in July, 2010. The Macon YDC was found to have the fourth highest reported rate of coerced sexual contact of any juvenile facility in the nation.

Georgia Youth Detention Center Among Worst For Sexual Misconduct

A new study shows one Georgia juvenile detention center has some of the highest rates of what the study calls “coerced sexual activity” among children...

December 19, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship

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  • Health

For Georgia Teens, The End Of Dating Violence Begins With Healthy Relationships

According to the Georgia Department of Public Health , domestic violence and sexual assault are the leading causes of injuries for young women and girls...

March 19, 2019
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By:
  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott
The ongoing government shutdown could affect victims of sexual assault.

Shutdown Jeopardizes Help For Sexual Assault Victims

As the government shutdown stretches on, it may begin to affect how communities are able to help victims of sexual assault. The $3.2 billion the...

January 17, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

Georgia's Rape Kit Backlog Wasn't The Only Issue: Problems Prosecuting Sexual Assault Suspects

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations is now caught up on processing a backlog of sexual assault kits. These so-called "rape kits" preserve evidence that...

December 03, 2018
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • La'Raven Taylor
Veda Brooks and BriGette McCoy joined "On Second Thought" to discuss issues facing women veterans.

'We Are Veterans And We're Out There': Women Veterans Represent, Reflect

According to the Women Veterans Office , there are over 93,000 women veterans in Georgia. Women veterans are often invisible as a population because...

November 14, 2018
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By:
  • Elena Rivera and
  • Virginia Prescott
"My mother didn't talk about sex," Lisa Myers, a baby boomer, told GPB. "Many mothers, although not all, were pretty much the same."

'An Era Of Not Talking About It': How Conversations About Sex, Consent Changed With Time

From social media to Capitol Hill, conversations about sexual assault are dominating the national dialogue, taking a topic that for decades was taboo to...

October 01, 2018
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  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott
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