GENEVA (Reuters) - The worsening conflict in eastern Congo has led to a surge in human rights violations including summary ...

Rwanda-backed rebels were expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing Goma, the region’s major city, the U.N. said Friday, also expressing concerns over ...

Gender-based violence has long been a major problem in Kenya because of patriarchal views, socioeconomic inequalities and insufficient legal protections, researchers say. For example, Kenyan law does ...

A description of an upcoming panel event at UC Berkeley that claimed the assaults and rapes against Israeli women by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2024 were “debunked” has been removed after it prompted ...

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport ...

Police say Derrick Dwayne Thompson told a girl that he worked for Child Services, and offered her a ride home. After she got ...

One of President Trump's first executive orders threatened to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary states and ...

David Pearce took the stand in his own defense Tuesday to deny committing multiple rapes and say he did everything he could ...

Friends and family of the Detroit man want him to be able to serve a life-in-prison sentence in Michigan instead of being ...

A 58-year-old Hudson man who was sentenced to prison for an April 2023 rape must also register as a sex offender.

Ian Cleary, 32, is accused of stalking Shannon Keeler at Gettysburg College, sneaking into her dorm and sexually assaulting ...

Gregory Rodriguez, a former guard at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, has been convicted of 64 counts ...