Sexual harassment and assault

The training camp system has proven to be the setting for abuse in several sports - especially of underage athletes whose existence is controlled by their trainers

She was 10 when coach first raped her. A discovery years later horrified her

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19 Jul 2018 - 10:59pm 11

A German fan plants a kiss on Fox Sports' Katie Nolan after Germany's win aver Algeria in New York in June. Photo: Fox Sports via YouTube

Report World Cup sex assaults, urges France – but victims doubt the system

19 Jul 2018 - 5:38am 2

WHO: ‘compulsive sexual behaviour’ is a mental disorder

15 Jul 2018 - 9:08pm

Harvey Weinstein was arrested in May and charged with two counts of rape and one count of criminal sexual act. He pleaded not guilty to those charges. Photo: TNS

Harvey Weinstein admits he gave actresses roles in return for sex

14 Jul 2018 - 2:08pm 7

Mira Sorvino in Los Angeles in 2016. Photo: AP

Actress Mira Sorvino says casting director gagged her with condom at 16

13 Jul 2018 - 7:06am

US singer Whitney Houston performing in Hanover, Germany in 2010. Houston died at 48 in a Los Angeles hotel in 2012. Photo: EPA/Holger Hollemann

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12 Jul 2018 - 7:08pm

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Chinese academic suspended after complaints from women students

12 Jul 2018 - 2:14pm 2

The French director Luc Besson at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. A second woman has said that Besson sexually assaulted her. Photo: AFP

Second woman says French director Luc Besson sexually assaulted her

12 Jul 2018 - 8:06pm

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in 2007. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Shambhala Buddhist leader steps down over sexual assault claims

12 Jul 2018 - 8:06pm 7

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has charged Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a Uttar Pradesh state lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, with the 2017 rape of a 16-year-old girl. Photo: Reuters

Indian politician in Modi’s party ‘raped teenage girl’

12 Jul 2018 - 8:38am 4

Women hold candles and placards during a protest in Ahmadabad, India, in April. Photo: AP

India police arrest school principal, teacher for suspected rape

11 Jul 2018 - 8:42pm 1

Scott Fan’s prototype Smart Bra device sends out signals to the police and other people preset by the users when a woman is being attacked. Photo: courtesy of Scott Fan

Smart bra technology signals police when woman is being attacked

10 Jul 2018 - 10:54am 5

Harvey Weinstein (left) leaves a courthouse in New York with his lawyer Benjamin Brafman on Monday. Photo: Bloomberg

Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to latest sex assault charges

10 Jul 2018 - 10:11pm

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech in Tokyo on July 1, 2018, during a ministerial meeting of 16 Asia-Pacific countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade deal. Photo: Kyodo

Japan’s quiet #MeToo moment is an economic indicator

9 Jul 2018 - 7:20pm 6

Women protest against sexual harassment, violence and rape, at a demonstration in Bangalore on April 26. Photo: EPA-EFE

India report highlights culture of impunity around sexual assault

8 Jul 2018 - 6:04pm 1

Transgender beauty contestants in New Delhi. Photo: AFP

India: no country for transgender women

8 Jul 2018 - 2:47pm 48

Rose Knight confirmed a newspaper report that said Trudeau apologised for the 2000 incident, and said he wouldn’t have been ‘so forward’ if he’d known she was a reporter

Justin Trudeau ‘apologised afterwards’ says ex-reporter in grope scandal

8 Jul 2018 - 8:43pm 4

Indian people hold posters and candles during a candle light march to protest against the rape of a seven-year-old girl in Mandsaur, in Bhopal, India, on July 1. On Friday, police said a girl in Bihar state came forward to say she had been repeatedly raped by teachers and classmates. Photo: EPA-EFE

Indian teen ‘raped by school head and 13 pupils, blackmailed by staff’

8 Jul 2018 - 9:28pm 25

Protesters rally to demand stronger government action to fight the spread of “spycam porn”. Photo: AP

South Korean women demand harsher penalties for ‘spycam porn’

7 Jul 2018 - 10:25pm 3

Activists Li Maizi, Xiao Yue and Wei Tingting campaign for the protection of victims of domestic violence on Qianmen Street, in downtown Beijing, in 2012. The efforts of these and other champions of women’s rights have helped in part to persuade the government to curb sexual harassment on the subway. Photo: Simon Song

China should thank its women for crackdown on ‘salty pig hands’ sex pests

6 Jul 2018 - 6:01pm 1

Donald Trump hires ex-Fox News executive Bill Shine ‘who covered up sex scandals’ as new communications chief

New Trump hire: Bill Shine, ‘who covered up sex scandals for Fox News’

6 Jul 2018 - 6:38am 1

A Rohingya Muslim woman, who agreed to be identified as “S”, with her baby last month at the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh. During her labour, she stuffed a scarf in her mouth to muffle her screams so her neighbours would not discover her pregnancy. Photo: AP

Rohingya rape survivors face awful choices as ‘sacrilegious’ births arrive

6 Jul 2018 - 6:49am 1

Bulls at the Festival of San Fermin 2016 in Pamplona, Spain. Photo: EPA

Pamplona’s bull run festival overshadowed by sexual abuse case

5 Jul 2018 - 11:07pm 1

A candlelight vigil in the Indian city of Bangalore on April 13 to protest against incidents of rape. Photo: Reuters

India knows rape is a problem, but biased surveys are no help

4 Jul 2018 - 9:02pm

A group of M23 rebel fighters sit on a pickup truck as they prepare to leave the city, in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in this file photo. Photo: EPA

From mass rape to cannibalism, UN says Congo atrocities beggar description

4 Jul 2018 - 3:12pm

A week after sexual harassment and abuse allegations about Kevin Spacey made headlines last year, Netflix dropped the star of its award-winning show House of Cards. Photo: TNS

Actor Spacey reportedly under investigation for six sexual assaults in UK

4 Jul 2018 - 8:54am

Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson could serve out sentence at sister’s home

Home detention for ‘remorseless’ archbishop who covered up child abuse

3 Jul 2018 - 10:28pm

Rajindarpal Singh Pannu, a former chief inspector with the Hong Kong police, has been forced to retire after sending sexually explicit photos and video to a female colleague. Photo: Handout

Senior police officer forced out over Christmas party sexting scandal

3 Jul 2018 - 12:08pm 49

Photos on social media showed the groom, Che Abdul Karim Che Abdul Hamid, holding the girl’s hand after the marriage ceremony. Photo: Twitter

Outrage after Malaysian Muslim makes Thai girl, 11, his third wife

2 Jul 2018 - 10:13pm 29

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