Latest items for LRW-DATA-1
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:41 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Eight boys have been accused of gang-raping a disabled classmate in the girl's bathroom of a Spanish school. The attack on a 12-year-old girl occurred in a Peñaflor, Seville school in May, according to a police report filed by the child's family. The police document said that the girl was 'removed from the sight of students and teachers and taken to the girl's bathroom' during a break, where the gang-rape allegedly occurred. Speaking to Spanish television program 'Y Ahora Sonsoles' the girl's distressed grandmother, whose identity was not shared, detailed the horrifying incident. 'They grabbed my hands and they opened my legs and they made love to me', the girl...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Eight boys have been accused of gang-raping a disabled classmate in the girl's bathroom of a Spanish school. The attack on a 12-year-old girl occurred in a Peñaflor, Seville school in May, according to a police report filed by the child's family. The police document said that the girl was 'removed from the sight of students and teachers and taken to the girl's bathroom' during a break, where the gang-rape allegedly occurred. Speaking to Spanish television program 'Y Ahora Sonsoles' the girl's distressed grandmother, whose identity was not shared, detailed the horrifying incident. 'They grabbed my hands and they opened my legs and they made love to me', the girl...more
Dec. 13, 2024, 3:48 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'Each time a woman returns from the forest without wood, we immediately know she's been raped,' Bukébo says, speaking through an interpreter. 'The men who rape her rob her, meaning that everything she has with her — even the wood she has with her — is taken'" (para 3). "According to a report published Tuesday by Physicians for Human Rights, there's been a 'massive influx' of sexual violence in eastern DRC in recent years. When group representatives interviewed local clinicians about patients, they heard harrowing stories: Children as young as 3 years old raped; victims sometimes held days or weeks in captivity; others penetrated with sharp objects. 'The level of...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'Each time a woman returns from the forest without wood, we immediately know she's been raped,' Bukébo says, speaking through an interpreter. 'The men who rape her rob her, meaning that everything she has with her — even the wood she has with her — is taken'" (para 3). "According to a report published Tuesday by Physicians for Human Rights, there's been a 'massive influx' of sexual violence in eastern DRC in recent years. When group representatives interviewed local clinicians about patients, they heard harrowing stories: Children as young as 3 years old raped; victims sometimes held days or weeks in captivity; others penetrated with sharp objects. 'The level of...more
Dec. 13, 2024, 3:39 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In December 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student boarded a bus in New Delhi a little after 9 p.m., expecting it would take her home. Instead, she was gang-raped and assaulted so viciously with an iron rod that her intestines were damaged. She died days later as India erupted in rage. Nearly 12 years later, the nation is convulsing with anger once again — this time, over the ghastly rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital, as she rested in a seminar room after a late-night shift" (para 1-2). "In 1997, India’s Supreme Court issued guidelines intended to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Those rules...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In December 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student boarded a bus in New Delhi a little after 9 p.m., expecting it would take her home. Instead, she was gang-raped and assaulted so viciously with an iron rod that her intestines were damaged. She died days later as India erupted in rage. Nearly 12 years later, the nation is convulsing with anger once again — this time, over the ghastly rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital, as she rested in a seminar room after a late-night shift" (para 1-2). "In 1997, India’s Supreme Court issued guidelines intended to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Those rules...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:39 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, IIP-PRACTICE-1
"YouGov research carried out for Channel 4 which revealed 1 in 4 women in the UK have been followed at some point during a night out, while 1 in 4 have been sexually assaulted or raped on a night out" (para 19).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, IIP-PRACTICE-1
"YouGov research carried out for Channel 4 which revealed 1 in 4 women in the UK have been followed at some point during a night out, while 1 in 4 have been sexually assaulted or raped on a night out" (para 19).
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:55 p.m.
Countries: Brazil
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Brazil has recorded unprecedented levels of rape and other forms of gender-based violence for the second year running, amid growing concerns over rightwing efforts to criminalize rape victims who have an abortion. The data, released on Thursday in the annual report by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, showed that reported cases of rape rose by 6.5% from the previous year to a new historic high of 83,988 – or one every six minutes" (para 1-2). "Every single indicator of gender-based violence increased in 2023 compared with the previous year, including murder (0.8%), sexual harassment (48.7%) and stalking (34.5%)" (para 4). "'Since 2021, the figures for violence against women have...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Brazil has recorded unprecedented levels of rape and other forms of gender-based violence for the second year running, amid growing concerns over rightwing efforts to criminalize rape victims who have an abortion. The data, released on Thursday in the annual report by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, showed that reported cases of rape rose by 6.5% from the previous year to a new historic high of 83,988 – or one every six minutes" (para 1-2). "Every single indicator of gender-based violence increased in 2023 compared with the previous year, including murder (0.8%), sexual harassment (48.7%) and stalking (34.5%)" (para 4). "'Since 2021, the figures for violence against women have...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:44 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"A Bolivian court has issued an arrest warrant for a former president accused of statutory rape and human trafficking after he failed to testify this week. Evo Morales, in office between 2006 and 2019, is accused of fathering a child with an unnamed 15-year-old child while in office in 2016, when he was 57-years-old. The girl's parents are said to have agreed to the relationship in return for unspecified 'political favours', the lawsuit claims" (para 1-3). "According to the lawsuit, the unnamed victim was a member of his political youth guard in 2015, when he is claimed to have started a sexual relationship with her. In 2016, the girl gave...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"A Bolivian court has issued an arrest warrant for a former president accused of statutory rape and human trafficking after he failed to testify this week. Evo Morales, in office between 2006 and 2019, is accused of fathering a child with an unnamed 15-year-old child while in office in 2016, when he was 57-years-old. The girl's parents are said to have agreed to the relationship in return for unspecified 'political favours', the lawsuit claims" (para 1-3). "According to the lawsuit, the unnamed victim was a member of his political youth guard in 2015, when he is claimed to have started a sexual relationship with her. In 2016, the girl gave...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:41 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"A 36-year-old Dalit woman has requested permission to be euthanised following claims she was brutally gang-raped by three men in India. The unnamed victim, from a village near Puranpur in the district of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, wrote to Indian President Droupadi Murmu following the alleged sex crime which took place on May 14. She claims she was attacked by a man named Mohammad Azim, 35, and two of his colleagues, who are said to have given her a drink laced with a sedative that made her unable to fight back. Azim, an electrician and repairman, was known to the victim and had allegedly used this familiarity to gain her...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"A 36-year-old Dalit woman has requested permission to be euthanised following claims she was brutally gang-raped by three men in India. The unnamed victim, from a village near Puranpur in the district of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, wrote to Indian President Droupadi Murmu following the alleged sex crime which took place on May 14. She claims she was attacked by a man named Mohammad Azim, 35, and two of his colleagues, who are said to have given her a drink laced with a sedative that made her unable to fight back. Azim, an electrician and repairman, was known to the victim and had allegedly used this familiarity to gain her...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:34 p.m.
Countries: Panama
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"After climbing mountains and crisscrossing rivers in their quest to reach the United States, their group was accosted by a half-dozen men in ski masks, holding long guns and issuing threats. 'Women, take off your clothes!' the assailants shouted, the mother said, before they probed each woman’s intimate parts looking for cash. Sons, brothers and husbands were forced to watch. Then the men turned to the girl, her mother said, ordering her to undress for a search, too. Assault, robbery and rape have long been a grim risk of migrant journeys around the globe. But aid groups working in the Darién Gap say that in the past six months they...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"After climbing mountains and crisscrossing rivers in their quest to reach the United States, their group was accosted by a half-dozen men in ski masks, holding long guns and issuing threats. 'Women, take off your clothes!' the assailants shouted, the mother said, before they probed each woman’s intimate parts looking for cash. Sons, brothers and husbands were forced to watch. Then the men turned to the girl, her mother said, ordering her to undress for a search, too. Assault, robbery and rape have long been a grim risk of migrant journeys around the globe. But aid groups working in the Darién Gap say that in the past six months they...more
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:57 p.m.
Countries: Haiti
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"One midwife at another clinic in the southern limits of the city, who asked to remain anonymous for their safety, said most of their patients were young women who had got pregnant after being forced to sell sex for food, or were raped by gang members. 'Gangs now run more than 70% of the city and when they come into a new area they ask the most beautiful girls to be their women. Running away is not always an option,' they say. Degernier says the number of reported sexual violence cases has increased by about 50% since last year, although exact figures are hard to come by" (para 10-12).more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"One midwife at another clinic in the southern limits of the city, who asked to remain anonymous for their safety, said most of their patients were young women who had got pregnant after being forced to sell sex for food, or were raped by gang members. 'Gangs now run more than 70% of the city and when they come into a new area they ask the most beautiful girls to be their women. Running away is not always an option,' they say. Degernier says the number of reported sexual violence cases has increased by about 50% since last year, although exact figures are hard to come by" (para 10-12).more
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:54 p.m.
Countries: Palestine
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, GEW-DATA-1
"Meanwhile, Israel is continuing to contend with the fallout of the sexual-based attacks committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7; evidence suggests women and girls were subjected to systematic rape and mutilation during the massacre. Investigations into these alleged crimes are ongoing. Israel’s top police investigations unit, Lahav 433, is reviewing more than 50,000 pieces of visual evidence and 1,500 witness testimonies" (para 13-14).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, GEW-DATA-1
"Meanwhile, Israel is continuing to contend with the fallout of the sexual-based attacks committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7; evidence suggests women and girls were subjected to systematic rape and mutilation during the massacre. Investigations into these alleged crimes are ongoing. Israel’s top police investigations unit, Lahav 433, is reviewing more than 50,000 pieces of visual evidence and 1,500 witness testimonies" (para 13-14).
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:39 p.m.
Countries: Malaysia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In a bedroom in Malaysia that has become a prison, the 14-year-old girl wipes away tears as she sits cross-legged on the concrete floor. It is here, she says, where her 35-year-old husband rapes her nearly every night" (para 1). "Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently abuse them, The Associated Press found in interviews with 12 young Rohingya brides who have arrived in Malaysia since 2022. The youngest was 13. All the girls interviewed by the AP said they are held hostage by controlling husbands who rarely let them...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In a bedroom in Malaysia that has become a prison, the 14-year-old girl wipes away tears as she sits cross-legged on the concrete floor. It is here, she says, where her 35-year-old husband rapes her nearly every night" (para 1). "Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently abuse them, The Associated Press found in interviews with 12 young Rohingya brides who have arrived in Malaysia since 2022. The youngest was 13. All the girls interviewed by the AP said they are held hostage by controlling husbands who rarely let them...more
Dec. 7, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she [Dr. Shaza] says" (p. 9-10). "SIHA has confirmed 29 cases of gang rape in Al Jazira's towns since October 2021. Two of the girls were underage, one died from her injuries and another took her own life, later found by their surviving relatives" (p. 19-20).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she [Dr. Shaza] says" (p. 9-10). "SIHA has confirmed 29 cases of gang rape in Al Jazira's towns since October 2021. Two of the girls were underage, one died from her injuries and another took her own life, later found by their surviving relatives" (p. 19-20).
Dec. 6, 2024, 11:32 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'Many female co-workers are obliged to sleep with the foreman, because if they don’t, they won’t get paid,' says Quispe. 'Or [the bosses] say to [women], ‘Let’s go get a drink’, they get them drunk and that’s how it works. It’s terrible and it happens a lot'" (para 8).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'Many female co-workers are obliged to sleep with the foreman, because if they don’t, they won’t get paid,' says Quispe. 'Or [the bosses] say to [women], ‘Let’s go get a drink’, they get them drunk and that’s how it works. It’s terrible and it happens a lot'" (para 8).
Dec. 6, 2024, 11:29 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The ombudsman’s office in Bolivia has condemned threats against a 10-year-old rape victim and her family after teachers and school staff tried to prevent the arrest of the alleged rapist, a 39-year-old male headteacher, by trying to invade a local police station and scuffling with police officers" (para 1). "The alleged perpetrator is accused of intercepting the girl on her way home from school earlier this month and raping her inside a vehicle. The assault followed weeks of harassment, including via social media, it is alleged. This case is part of a wider trend of sexual violence against minors and impunity for rapists in Bolivia. The country has one of...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The ombudsman’s office in Bolivia has condemned threats against a 10-year-old rape victim and her family after teachers and school staff tried to prevent the arrest of the alleged rapist, a 39-year-old male headteacher, by trying to invade a local police station and scuffling with police officers" (para 1). "The alleged perpetrator is accused of intercepting the girl on her way home from school earlier this month and raping her inside a vehicle. The assault followed weeks of harassment, including via social media, it is alleged. This case is part of a wider trend of sexual violence against minors and impunity for rapists in Bolivia. The country has one of...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 8:36 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The new law was drawn up after the 2016 “wolf pack” gang rape when five men raped an 18-year-old woman in Pamplona" (para 7).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The new law was drawn up after the 2016 “wolf pack” gang rape when five men raped an 18-year-old woman in Pamplona" (para 7).
Dec. 6, 2024, 3:58 p.m.
Countries: Uganda
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Alice Nakiru was 20 when a friend of the family broke into her house, dragged her to his home and raped her repeatedly. He kept her for days. She screamed and begged but no one came to her rescue. 'That is how I became his wife,' says Nakiru, now 32, as she stirs porridge at home in Karamoja. 'I moved from looking after my grandmother and uncles to looking after my husband and these children.' Nakiru dropped out of school when her mother died. After the youngest of her uncles got married and no longer needed Nakiru’s housekeeping, he arranged for her abduction. 'Everyone gets married like that,' she says....more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Alice Nakiru was 20 when a friend of the family broke into her house, dragged her to his home and raped her repeatedly. He kept her for days. She screamed and begged but no one came to her rescue. 'That is how I became his wife,' says Nakiru, now 32, as she stirs porridge at home in Karamoja. 'I moved from looking after my grandmother and uncles to looking after my husband and these children.' Nakiru dropped out of school when her mother died. After the youngest of her uncles got married and no longer needed Nakiru’s housekeeping, he arranged for her abduction. 'Everyone gets married like that,' she says....more
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:43 a.m.
Countries: Brazil
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The data, published on Thursday by the Brazilian Public Security Forum showed that reported rapes increased 8.2% to an all-time high of 74,930 last year, while rape cases among minors grew 15.3%. Females make up 88.7% of rape victims, and a staggering 61.4% are children aged 13 or younger" (para 2). "All types of violence against minors increased, including child maltreatment (up 13.8%), child and youth pornography (7%) and sexual exploitation (16.4%). 'It would be hard to present a worse scenario in relation to violence against children and adolescents than that which emerged in 2022,' the report reads" (para 4). "Other forms of sexual violence, including stalking, assault and harassment,...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The data, published on Thursday by the Brazilian Public Security Forum showed that reported rapes increased 8.2% to an all-time high of 74,930 last year, while rape cases among minors grew 15.3%. Females make up 88.7% of rape victims, and a staggering 61.4% are children aged 13 or younger" (para 2). "All types of violence against minors increased, including child maltreatment (up 13.8%), child and youth pornography (7%) and sexual exploitation (16.4%). 'It would be hard to present a worse scenario in relation to violence against children and adolescents than that which emerged in 2022,' the report reads" (para 4). "Other forms of sexual violence, including stalking, assault and harassment,...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:24 a.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The number of police-recorded sexual offences in England and Wales has hit a record high. There were 199,021 sex crimes logged by forces in the year to September 2022. This is up 22 per cent compared to the year ending March 2020 (163,244), prior to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures, published on Thursday, also show the overall number of crimes recorded by England and Wales police forces exceeded pre-pandemic levels. They sky-rocketed to reach 6.6 million in the 12 months to September. This was 10 per cent higher than the year to March 2020 when 6.1 million offences were recorded. The ONS...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The number of police-recorded sexual offences in England and Wales has hit a record high. There were 199,021 sex crimes logged by forces in the year to September 2022. This is up 22 per cent compared to the year ending March 2020 (163,244), prior to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures, published on Thursday, also show the overall number of crimes recorded by England and Wales police forces exceeded pre-pandemic levels. They sky-rocketed to reach 6.6 million in the 12 months to September. This was 10 per cent higher than the year to March 2020 when 6.1 million offences were recorded. The ONS...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:09 a.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The last case that garnered this much attention was in 2019, when Japanese journalist Shiori Ito filed and won her civil lawsuit seeking damages from a prominent reporter who she said had raped her" (para 30).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The last case that garnered this much attention was in 2019, when Japanese journalist Shiori Ito filed and won her civil lawsuit seeking damages from a prominent reporter who she said had raped her" (para 30).
Dec. 6, 2024, 9:56 a.m.
Countries: Kenya
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"This is the horrifying moment a Kenyan boss tried to force a woman to have sex with him in return for work - as an investigation uncovered widespread sexual abuse on tea farms. BBC reporters found that women had been pressured into sex at farms supplying PG Tips, Lipton, Tesco and Sainsbury's - with one victim being infected with HIV. An undercover journalist was invited to an interview in a hotel room where she was quickly asked to start touching James Finlay & Company recruiter John Chebochok who instructed her to take her clothes off and 'lie down'. The victim, called Katy, was wearing a secret camera and was pinned...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"This is the horrifying moment a Kenyan boss tried to force a woman to have sex with him in return for work - as an investigation uncovered widespread sexual abuse on tea farms. BBC reporters found that women had been pressured into sex at farms supplying PG Tips, Lipton, Tesco and Sainsbury's - with one victim being infected with HIV. An undercover journalist was invited to an interview in a hotel room where she was quickly asked to start touching James Finlay & Company recruiter John Chebochok who instructed her to take her clothes off and 'lie down'. The victim, called Katy, was wearing a secret camera and was pinned...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 9:44 a.m.
Countries: India
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In 2012, the fatal gang rape of a medical trainee on a New Delhi bus jolted Indians into panic over sexual violence. Afterward, an international poll of experts on women's issues ranked India as the most dangerous country in the world for women. It was based on perceptions, rather than crime data, and the Indian government pushed back at it. But it nevertheless reinforced the idea that women need to be protected" (para 36).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In 2012, the fatal gang rape of a medical trainee on a New Delhi bus jolted Indians into panic over sexual violence. Afterward, an international poll of experts on women's issues ranked India as the most dangerous country in the world for women. It was based on perceptions, rather than crime data, and the Indian government pushed back at it. But it nevertheless reinforced the idea that women need to be protected" (para 36).
Dec. 5, 2024, 4:37 p.m.
Countries: Norway
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The Committee notes with concern reports of an increase in cases of sexual abuse of teenage girls by teenage boys and the possible link to the sexualization of women online and the availability of pornography. The Committee reiterates its recommendation (CEDAW/C/NOR/CO/9, para. 23 (c)) to allocate resources for research into the root causes and possible impact of oversexualized representations of girls and women in the media and the possible links between sexualization and pornography and gender-based violence against women and girls" (6). "According to data from Statistics Norway, between 68 and 78 per cent of rape cases reported to the police between 2019 and 2021 were closed by the public...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The Committee notes with concern reports of an increase in cases of sexual abuse of teenage girls by teenage boys and the possible link to the sexualization of women online and the availability of pornography. The Committee reiterates its recommendation (CEDAW/C/NOR/CO/9, para. 23 (c)) to allocate resources for research into the root causes and possible impact of oversexualized representations of girls and women in the media and the possible links between sexualization and pornography and gender-based violence against women and girls" (6). "According to data from Statistics Norway, between 68 and 78 per cent of rape cases reported to the police between 2019 and 2021 were closed by the public...more
Dec. 4, 2024, 4:55 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'. . .Humanitarian actors report they have provided assistance to over 600 survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in six IDP camps over the course of two weeks in a volatile security environment. In most cases, survivors reported being attacked by armed men and displaced men in and around the camps,' she [Pramila Patten, UN Special Representative] pointed out" (par. 4).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'. . .Humanitarian actors report they have provided assistance to over 600 survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in six IDP camps over the course of two weeks in a volatile security environment. In most cases, survivors reported being attacked by armed men and displaced men in and around the camps,' she [Pramila Patten, UN Special Representative] pointed out" (par. 4).
Dec. 4, 2024, 4:20 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1
"Bolivia has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in Latin America. In 2021, the country had one of the highest incidences of femicide in South America. In a 2016 study, 75% of women living in urban areas and 71% in rural areas reported having suffered some type of violence at the hands of their partner" (par. 15).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1
"Bolivia has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in Latin America. In 2021, the country had one of the highest incidences of femicide in South America. In a 2016 study, 75% of women living in urban areas and 71% in rural areas reported having suffered some type of violence at the hands of their partner" (par. 15).
Nov. 29, 2024, 3:17 p.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
“With an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 new actresses debuting each year, and the annual number of released videos hitting over a concerning 35,000, these numbers become even more terrifying as many women and girls are subjected to rape, blackmail, and sexual assault as part of their introduction into the industry - by up to 15 men at times” (para 3). “A 2020 government survey revealed shocking figures suggesting around a quarter of Japanese women in their teens, 20s and 30s have been solicited for supposed modelling jobs on their local streets and of those who agreed, 14 per cent were then pressured to perform sex acts” (para 4). “[T]here are...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
“With an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 new actresses debuting each year, and the annual number of released videos hitting over a concerning 35,000, these numbers become even more terrifying as many women and girls are subjected to rape, blackmail, and sexual assault as part of their introduction into the industry - by up to 15 men at times” (para 3). “A 2020 government survey revealed shocking figures suggesting around a quarter of Japanese women in their teens, 20s and 30s have been solicited for supposed modelling jobs on their local streets and of those who agreed, 14 per cent were then pressured to perform sex acts” (para 4). “[T]here are...more
Nov. 16, 2024, 9:46 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"According to a Taiwan media report that cited statistics from the Ministry of Education from 2022, 24 percent of campus sexual harassment survivors were men, and some of the survivors who have come forward in recent weeks have been men" (para 16).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"According to a Taiwan media report that cited statistics from the Ministry of Education from 2022, 24 percent of campus sexual harassment survivors were men, and some of the survivors who have come forward in recent weeks have been men" (para 16).
Nov. 16, 2024, 4:02 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In 2011 a woman was raped every 20 minutes in India, according to government data. The pace quickened to about every 16 minutes by 2021, when more than 31,000 rapes were reported, a 20 percent increase from the previous year. In 2021, 2,200 gang rapes were reported to authorities" (Para 6) "But those grotesque numbers tell only part of the story: 77 percent of Indian women who have experienced physical or sexual violence never tell anyone, according to one study. Prosecutions are rare" (Para 7). "Reports of violence against women in India have risen steadily over the decades, with some researchers citing a growing willingness by victims to come forward....more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"In 2011 a woman was raped every 20 minutes in India, according to government data. The pace quickened to about every 16 minutes by 2021, when more than 31,000 rapes were reported, a 20 percent increase from the previous year. In 2021, 2,200 gang rapes were reported to authorities" (Para 6) "But those grotesque numbers tell only part of the story: 77 percent of Indian women who have experienced physical or sexual violence never tell anyone, according to one study. Prosecutions are rare" (Para 7). "Reports of violence against women in India have risen steadily over the decades, with some researchers citing a growing willingness by victims to come forward....more
Nov. 16, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Brisa [a victim of sexual violence], like 1 in 3 girls in Bolivia, is a survivor of sexual violence" (para 3).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Brisa [a victim of sexual violence], like 1 in 3 girls in Bolivia, is a survivor of sexual violence" (para 3).
Nov. 16, 2024, 3:41 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Nearly half of Mexican women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime, government data say" (para 16).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Nearly half of Mexican women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime, government data say" (para 16).
Nov. 16, 2024, 2:55 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1
"Around 65% of women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, according to UNICEF, with the most common form being abuse by husbands or partners" (para 4).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1
"Around 65% of women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, according to UNICEF, with the most common form being abuse by husbands or partners" (para 4).