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Byline: Wina T. Sangala The death of a 16-year-old girl following rape by a Kabaza (motorcycle taxi) operator, as reported by The Daily Times on February 5, 2024, calls for [...]

Byline: Mariya Shuaibu Suleiman PREMIUM TIMES reports on a rising trend of rape in Kano, the obstacles to justice for victims and the efforts being made by state and non-state [...]

Byline: Werner Menges The heavy prison terms that the Combating of Rape Act prescribes for repeat rapists remain part of the law in Namibia until declared unconstitutional, High Court judge [...]

Byline: Glory Iribagiza An estimated 250,000 to 500,000 women and girls were raped in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. For ages, millions of women in wartime and armed conflicts [...]

Khartoum -- A workshop focusing on legal abortion in Sudan has called for amendments to procedures and laws regarding rape victims' rights to legal abortion, and suggests a raft of [...]

Addis Abeba -- Ethiopian Airlines said that a reference to the presence of 'Airline police Station' in the prosecutor's recent (https://addisstandard.com/news-prosecutor-charges-three-law-enforcement-officers-accomplices-accused-of-rape-grave-corruption-and-abuse-of-power/) charges against members of law enforcement and their accomplices [...]

Byline: Hilda Mhagama IN an effort to reduce violence against children, women, and men, the government has begun holding meetings with key legal stakeholders to consider removing bail on rape [...]

Byline: Oluwakemi Adelagun The school said of the 76 students that represented it, 71 'ensured an untainted adherence to our standards, abiding with laid down regulations and code of conduct, [...]

Prosecutor General Martha Imalwa says the constitutionality challenge against sections of the Combating of Rape Act by a Cuban doctor accused of raping a female colleague has no merit. Rape [...]

Lack of evidence, denials and compromises have continued to undermine the fight against rape and sexual gender-based violence here, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said Thursday. Giving a brief remark [...]

Byline: Mohammed Abubakar Rape and sodomy were the most committed crimes in 2021 in Jigawa State, according to records by the state Ministry of Justice. This is despite the state [...]

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has called on the National Prosecuting Authority to take swift action against any perpetrators of statutory rape. This as the Basic Education Department introduced [...]

Law enforcement officers who violate the law must be served with the full weight of the law As sundry criminal cartels prowl the country, an epidemic of rape has emerged [...]

Byline: Elias Tegegn The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) called for law enforcement operations in order to bring those involved in sexual and gender-based violence, including rape, to justice. There [...]

LAW enforcement agencies have to impose strong legal measures against rapists who are wreaking havoc in Zanzibar, Tanzania Media Women's Association, Zanzibar (TAMWA, ZNZ) has advised. The organization has decried [...]

Byline: Olawale Ajimotokan The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has stated that laws to ensure that established cases of rape are no longer bailable [...]

Byline: Omeiza Ajayi Abuja -- The Federal Government has disclosed its resolve to go tough on rapists, expressing its determination to make rape a non-bailable offense. Minister of State in [...]

Byline: Iniabasi Umo Uyo -- The University of Uyo Women Association (UWA) has supported the call for stiffer laws against rape and criminal abortion, saying it would reduce the prevalence [...]

Byline: Victor Ogunje Ado-Ekiti -- The long arm of the law caught up with a rapist yesterday, as an Ado-Ekiti High Court in Ekiti State sentenced an 18 -year-old Emeka [...]

Byline: Bidon Mibzar Abuja -- The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concern over the recent amendment of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law No.5 of 2017, providing stiffer [...]

Byline: Okeri Ngutjinazo Minister of gender equality and child welfare Doreen Sioka has called on the country's law enforcement authorities to ensure that the suspects who allegedly raped a minor [...]

Byline: Selma Lomax Lofa and Nimba Counties -- The Executive Officer of Women Solidarity Incorporated, a national women-focused non-governmental and civil society organization formed to mitigate abuses and exploitation of [...]

About three months after governors of the 36 states of the federation agreed to declare a state of emergency on rape, most of the state Houses of Assembly are yet [...]

Rescue Alternatives Liberia (RAL), a nongovernmental human rights organization says it is concerned over repeated calls for death penalty against perpetrators of rape in Liberia. RAL as a reputable human [...]

Byline: Gerald C. Koinyeneh Paynesville -- The Head of the St. Kizito Catholic Church in Paynesville, Rev. Father Ambrose Kroma says the application of death penalty against perpetrators of rape [...]

Byline: David S. Menjor Elizabeth Hårleman, outgoing Deputy Head of Mission of the Swedish Embassy in Liberia '... it will only take a prepared and efficient justice system to bring [...]

Byline: Hannah N. Geterminah - Morris Tamba (right), one of the two suspects, escorted to the court by Annie Wilson, head of the Women and Children division of Mount Barclay [...]

Byline: Okeri Ngutjinazo The ministry of justice is set to table amendment bills to the Combating of Rape Act and Domestic Violence Act when parliament resumes in September. The Bills [...]

Byline: Agency Report The Kano State House of Assembly has begun a process to further amend the State's Penal Code amendment (No.12), Law of 2014 to provide for castration as [...]

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said that drastic action is needed to tackle rape and this should include vigorous law enforcement to prosecute rapists. The governor who reiterated [...]

Byline: Nthatuoa Koeshe A female student at Lerotholi Polytechnic was raped and murdered in Thabong, Maseru, last Friday. Enraged by the horrific incident, Thabong villagers on Saturday morning took the [...]

Byline: Christiana T. Alabi Lagos -- A group of women, under the auspices of Stand-up for Women Society (SWS), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of [...]

Byline: Samuel Akapule Bolgatanga -- Traditional rulers have been urged not to adjudicate rape cases brought before them in their respective communities, but to rather refer such cases to the [...]

Statement attributable to UNFPA Representative for Somalia, Mr. Anders Thomsen, on the rape of two very young girls in Somalia Mogadishu, 5 April 2020 - UNFPA Somalia strongly condemns the [...]

Byline: Adelanwa Bamgboye Lagos -- Rape is defined as a crime of forcing a woman or girl to have sex, especially using violence and it is one of the oldest [...]

Byline: Jane Echewodo, Rasheed Sobowale A 30-year-old conductor, Wale Hassan, was arraigned before an Ikeja Special Offences Court on allegations of armed robbery and raping a 59-year-old woman. The defendant [...]

Byline: Josephine Agbonkhese Failure to report immediately as well as the absence of hard evidence as of time of report, are primary reasons most rape victims do not obtain justice [...]

Byline: Halimah Yahaya Hauwa Haruna said the man who raped her young daughter lived nearby in an inner-city slum in Jahi area of Abuja. Once, the man asked the 12-year-old [...]

Byline: Lisa Schelin The U.N. office of the high commissioner for human rights welcomes the conviction and sentencing of a man for rape by a court in Mauritania. Mauritania does [...]

Police are warning members of the community against taking law into their own hands after a man is believed to have been castrated and fatally assaulted following a gang rape [...]

There were 430 cases of rape reported in Swaziland / eSwatini over seven months, new figures reveal. They were among 2,900 cases brought under the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence [...]

Byline: Fred Yeegbeh, Jr. Nimba -- -Domestic Violence, Socially Disadvantaged Group' Project In Bahn City, Nimba The Rural Integrated Center for Community Empowerment (RICCE), a non-governmental organization in collaboration with [...]

Following the admission by Pope Francis that the Roman Catholic Church is dogged with pedophilia, rape, sex slavery and forced abortions, the church leadership in Malawi cannot stand on the [...]

Byline: Nomhle Kangootui THE mother of an eight-year-old girl who was allegedly brutally raped at a Windhoek district farm on Friday said she would take the law into her hands [...]

Byline: Chika Izuora Women At Risk Foundation (WARIF) has said the statistics at its disposal revealed that over 10,000 women are being raped in Nigeria daily. The founder of WARIF [...]

Thousands have signed a petition to Morocco's king in support of a rape survivor. Despite a new law to tackle violence against women, rights groups say few survivors 'will be [...]

Byline: Mohalenyane Phakela FORMER minister of Law, Mootsi Lehata was this week remanded to 21 September 2018 when he appeared at the Maseru Magistrates' Court to answer to charges of [...]

A father in Swaziland raped his 16-year-old daughter to test that she was still a virgin, a court has been told. It is a stark illustration of the way women [...]

Nierteti, Dec 27, 2017 (Radio Dabanga/All Africa Global Media) -- Three members of the paramilitary Border Guards raped two girls in Nierteti locality in Central Darfur on Saturday. According to […]

Byline: Ibrahim Musa Giginyu Kano, Dec 11, 2017 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media) -- The National Human Rights Commission has described the upward review of conviction on rape from a [...]