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New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, ordering a new trial in the landmark #MeToo case.

By the age of 13, Allison Byrd '24 realized that she could be an ambassador for change in her pursuit to combat human trafficking.

A ban on nearly all abortions in Arizona doesn’t sit well with Republican former Gov. Doug Ducey. Yet he was the one who appointed the four conservative justices whose ruling cleared the way for it.

State senators voted Monday to force teachers to "out'' students who want to be identified by a different gender to their parents.

The FBI’s “repeated and continued failures, delays and inaction” allowed Jeffrey Epstein to continue his sex trafficking operation for more than 20 years, twelve alleged victims claimed in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

Two Arizona girls are suing to strike down the state’s trans athlete ban, arguing that it unfairly discriminates against them and violates federal equal protection laws.

Donald Trump sexually abused magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by branding her a liar, jurors decided on Tuesday and awarded her $5 million in damages.

For New York employers, the standards for sexual harassment may be shifting. The state requires all employers to adopt its model sex harassment policy...

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BISBEE, Ariz. (AP) — MJ was a tiny, black-haired girl, just 5 years old, when her father admitted to his bishop that he was sexually abusing her. The father, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and an admitted pornography addict, was in counseling with his bishop when he revealed the abuse.

I attended Harm Reduction Conference for the first time this year, and it was also the first year this conference had the “sex worker track,” a series of workshops and presentations thr…

The controversial bill package FOSTA-SESTA has already impacted sites like Reddit, Craigslist, and Google — and that’s just the start.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction was thrown out Wednesday by Pennsylvania's highest court in a ruling that swiftly freed the actor from prison more than three years after he was found guilty of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion.

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November 25 is recognised worldwide as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Feminism in India is newly relevant. The past month has seen an explosion of online testimony to sexual harassment, in a watershed moment in India's #MeToo movement. The beginnings of the latter…

Key moments in the cases against the producer, who has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault.

Students say John Comaroff ‘kissed and groped students without their consent’ and threatened their careers if they reported him

Former film producer, who is currently incarcerated in New York, faces possible extradition for alleged attacks on five women

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was charged Friday with raping two more women in Los Angeles, prosecutors said.

The former movie mogul and convicted rapist, now serving time in a New York prison, has been charged with 11 counts of sexual assault in California involving five women.

Individuals who have been victims of oppression or abuse have found hastags to be an effective way to increase the scope and effect of their activism. Northeastern researchers Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles have created an interdisciplinary project that studies and explains how hashtags acquire their followings.

Every 16 hours, a woman is fatally shot by a current or former intimate partner. Many of the offenders were legally prohibited from having guns

In the docuseries We Need to Talk About Cosby, the comic and TV host examines how a once-loved comedy star fell from grace, and the system that supported him

Sexual assault victims in Medieval England faced some of the same types of challenges as they would today, says a researcher who studied 28 rape trials from 800 years ago.

Black women, girls, and non-binary people are seldom seen as victims.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa County is assisting victims through its four Law Library Resource Center locations.

Fear of retaliation may lead workers to mistrust HR, a dynamic that has been noted in recent high-profile stories on organizational harassment.

How a hashtag got its power

DETROIT (AP) — When #MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke thinks about the group's future as the world celebrates its anniversary, her vision is clear...