Women's Movements & the Law

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.

Throughout the bitter winter, during rain and snow, Jon Vaughn has alternated between sleeping in a tent or a campervan outside former University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel's house.

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.

A jury found the disgraced R&B star guilty of charges that included sexual exploitation of a child, racketeering and sex trafficking. He faces a possible sentence of 10 years to life in prison.

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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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

Let us begin with an image: a naked white man pursuing a low-wage Black female asylum seeker down the corridors of an expensive Manhattan hotel in order to force her to have sex with him. The man, of...

The Phoenix Act extends the California statute of limitations on domestic violence by two years.

"The powerful and rich are not exempt from being held responsible for their actions," Giuffre said in a statement.

The bipartisan bill bans employers from inserting provisions in contracts that require individuals who allege claims of sexual assault or harassment to go through a secretive process.

The Schlesinger Library’s #MeToo archive, which opened to researchers on July 1, captures the tweets, websites, and online articles that powered the movement.

Bill Cosby was freed from prison and returned home on Wednesday, less than two hours after Pennsylvania's highest court overturned his sexual assault conviction, saying he never should have faced charges after striking a non-prosecution deal with a previous district attorney more than 15 years ago.