India was urged to take a tougher stand on sexual violence and religious discrimination and ratify the torture convention, as countries raked over its human rights record at the UN Thursday. New Delhi insisted it appreciated the role played by human rights defenders and said it would only impose ...

LONDON - Sixty per cent of women in Europe have suffered gender-based or sexual violence at work, according to a study across five countries published on Saturday. French research group Ifop found 21 per cent reported such attacks in the last 12 months and over 40 per cent of those were under the ...

International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict is being observed on Wednesday (19 June) to raise awareness of the need to put an end to conflict-related sexual violence, to honour the victims and survivors of sexual violence around the world. The day also aims to pay tribute ...

*ISLAMABAD - Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari on Monday slammed India for using sexual violence as weapon of war in occupied Kashmir.* *She urged the international community to play their role for granting the Kashmiri people their UN-pledged right of self-determination.* Addressing ...

NEW DELHI: In India, a 21-year-old Russian woman has been subjected to disgrace in Tiruvannamalai town of Chennai state. The Investigating officer said six men have been detained over the incident. Sexual violence is rife in India with nearly 110 rapes reported every day but rights activists say ...

NEW DELHI: India is the world’s most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labor, according to a poll of global experts released. War-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third in the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of about ...

LONDON: India is the world´s most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts released on Tuesday. War-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third in the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of ...

NEW DELHI: India has been declared world’s most dangerous country for women due to high risk of sexual violence and slave labor. According to Thomson Reuters Foundation experts' Report, India is moving to top doing not enough to tackle the dangers women faced.  Government data also shows ...

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi has called for mechanisms to independently investigate and verify reports emerging from conflict situations where sexual violence occurred.         Addressing an open debate on Preventing Sexual ...

PARIS - France announced a series of measures against sexual violence on Wednesday, including on-the-spot fines for sexual harassment on the street and extended deadlines for filing rape complaints. President Emmanuel Macron has said the bill is meant to ensure “women are not afraid to be ...