Activists have raised the issue of student sexual assault and harassment on campus for more than 30 years. It’s time students had a real say in how universities respond.
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Germaine Greer’s recent comments about the punishments for rape show the need for more complex, evidence-based discussions about trauma and the criminal justice system.
Associated with intimate partner violence, there are many ways in which reproductive choice is taken away from women.
More than 90% of violent crimes in South Africa fall outside the categories named in the police’s new anti-crime strategy.
The author and academic makes some valid points about rape, but to decriminalise it, as she suggests, fails to recognise bodily autonomy as a key marker of humanity to which women are entitled.
At least one in six older people experience some form of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse each year.
Advising women to “stay safe” is problematic because it transfers the responsibility for men’s violence onto women, and distracts us from more difficult conversations.
Despite the controversy over the graphic content, this Netlix drama could be a lifeline for young people.
Germaine Greer’s recent comments on rape are troublingly glib.
Recent historical research has revealed that after the Nazis surrendered at end the Second World War, thousands of German women were raped by Allied forces.
Laws around the world continue to fail victims of rape and sexual abuse. It is time this, too, changed.
France’s answer to #MeToo was #BalanceTonPorc – “denounce your pig”. An analysis of the idioms linking to sex and pigs provides some insights into why the hashtag hit home.
After colonisation, dispossession and decades of military violence, indigenous women in Guatemala are closing in on justice at last.
More than 70% of female students, and 26% of male students, have experienced sexual violence while at university.
How can we increase safety and reduce the likelihood of sexual violence in chemsex settings? Addressing wider issues surrounding sexual consent might be a start.
Colleges and universities can rid their campuses of sexual assault and sexual harassment if they do a few key things, a group of researchers argue.
As a result of the ruling, more detail of future Parole Board decisions should be available to victims.
It’s important to differentiate between various forms of sexual violence to punish perpetrators appropriately, and to help those affected to label and describe their experiences.
If Americans remember My Lai, they likely know that something awful happened there. On this 50th anniversary, it is worth recalling the grotesque details, in the hope of preventing a future My Lai.
MeToo is an inclusive movement. So why have so few men come forward with their own accounts of being sexually harassed?
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Head of School and Dean, School of Law and Justice, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of Psychology & Associate Dean, Georgia State University
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Children, Families and Armed Conflict, McGill University
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Professor of Criminology, Durham University
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Professor of Law, Durham University
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Professor of Global & Language Studies, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Psychology, University of Birmingham