Paul Shakespeare’s attack on an 18-year-old woman in Cheltenham left her so traumatised she did not tell her familyA man has been jailed for raping a teenage woman more than three decades ago after he was arrested last year for an unconnected crime and…
Spain says it is first in Europe to officially count all femicides
Statistics on gender-based violence broadened beyond cases involving partners or exesOfficial statistics on gender-based violence in Spain will be broadened to include killings of women and children by men regardless of whether there was a prior relati…
The guns are gone, but misogyny still stalks Northern Ireland | Susan McKay
For unionist politicians, paedophile and domestic abuser David Tweed was just ‘larger than life’ – not a danger to womenWhen David Tweed died in a crash in County Antrim at the end of October, Ian Paisley Jr, Tweed’s MP, spoke of his sadness: “David wa…
Student ‘still feels vulnerable on nights out’ five years after alleged spiking
Polly Sutherland, now 24, says Lancaster University student union did not take her claim seriously in 2016A former art student who had to use a walking stick and lost the use of her hand for weeks after she believes she was spiked has said she still fe…
Two-fifths of police forces in England and Wales lack rape units
Exclusive: campaigners concerned after FoI revelation that 17 forces do not have specialist Rasso unitsAt least two-fifths of police forces in England and Wales do not have specialist rape and serious sexual offence (Rasso) units, the Guardian can reve…
A third of police forces referred sex assault claims to watchdog
Twenty-seven allegations about officers passed on in week Couzens sentencedAlmost a third of police forces in England and Wales referred allegations of sexual assault and harassment against their own officers to the police watchdog in the days followin…
888 app plan to protect women ‘sticking plaster that reinforces victim blaming’
Activists say UK government-backed proposal places onus on women to safeguard themselves rather than address societal problemsLabour and campaigners have criticised a government-backed proposal for a service to protect women travelling alone as “a stic…