Social Movements & the Law

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...

Cuomo resigned in August following a report from the state's attorney general that he sexually harassed multiple women, including current and former state employees.

The jury weighed evidence from about 30 witnesses over 3 weeks who alleged the British socialite played a pivotal part in recruiting teenage girls for sex with Epstein.

Politics reporter Felicia Sonmez sued the paper and several of its current and former editors, saying she was not allowed to report on sexual misconduct after speaking about an assault against her.

NEW YORK (AP) — To Charlotte Bennett, the new book that arrived at her Manhattan apartment this week — Anita Hill’s “Believing” — was more than just a look at gender violence. It was a dispatch from a fellow member of a very specific sisterhood — women who have come forward to describe misconduct they suffered at the hands of powerful men.

The global #MeToo movement has sparked significant social, cultural, and legal change, but many challenges remain, Human Rights Watch said on the eve of the second anniversary of the #MeToo hashtag going viral on social media.

When an activist accused one of the most respected physicians in the movement of sexually assaulting her, everyone quickly took sides.

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If you and I have knowingly supported, promoted, defended, collaborated with any art that is tainted, let’s own up | #MeToo | #MeTooIndia

Before Christine Blasey Ford and Monica Lewinsky, there was Anita Hill, shamed for exposing the actions of a powerful man. She explains how she withstood the tumult

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside one of the only federal women’s prisons in the United States, inmates say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.

As homicides surged across the US last year, the number of Black females killed increased sharply as well