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Canada’s current framework treats deepfake-based sexual abuse as isolated criminal behaviour, when it is systematic gender-based violence.
A community – bystanders, law enforcement, colleagues and family – is likely to deny an atrocity when acknowledging it requires action.
Not even the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual abuse could rupture the sound-proof walls of South African classical music.
For decades, TV has had a ‘rape problem’. But Off Campus proves stories about sexual violence don’t need to be graphic to be powerful.
Many nurses experience sexual comments, touching and intimidation at work. Too often, they are expected to cope quietly.
Thousands of men around the world, including in Australia, have formed online communities to trade in rape content and advice. They do it to impress one another.
Powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein are named, dissected and speculated about. The survivors, unless they work hard to step forward, remain a blurred mass in the background.
The Vatican archives show that women reported instances of harassment and abuse to Church authorities.
Hundreds of returnees and forced migrants reported being terrorised by soldiers and armed militias on both sides of the Sudan civil war.
Kids who abuse others don’t always go on to commit more violence as adults. But intervention is key.
It’s not uncommon that rape by a spouse happens alongside other forms of abuse.
The recently released birthday tribute book that was gifted to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 demonstrates how power is fortified through social gestures.
Parents have been left reeling by news a male Melbourne childcare worker has been charged with alleged sexual abuse of young children in his care.
First came psychological abuse, then physical, then came sexual abuse.
GPs can engage men who are at risk of perpetrating family violence – and prevent them harming their families. Here’s how.
How do pornographic deepfakes perpetuate gender-based violence? How is the violence in it different from that of conventional content?
Men wait an average of 21 years before telling anyone they were sexually abused. A new study looks at why men often don’t disclose sexual abuse and assaults.
A new study finds many LGBTIQA+SB Australians have experienced sexual violence, and we need a more targeted and informed approach to dealing with it.
Now we know how power dynamics complicate consent is it time to revisit The Kiss?
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