Sexual abuse of boys is “barely addressed” by the laws in many countries, according to a global study that warns of a lack of support for young male survivors. The study, which examined child rape laws in 40 countries, found that just under half of...
Main image: A protest after Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were found not guilty of rape, Dublin, March 2018. The verdicts were unanimous and came swiftly. After a trial that had lasted nine weeks, with four defendants and multiple charges, the jury...
Donald Trump has insisted he will move to end the right to American citizenship for the children of non-citizens born in the US, a pledge he made frequently throughout the 2016 campaign and one often dismissed as legally unfeasible by scholars. Bir...
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces a second allegation of sexual misconduct after another woman came forward accusing him of inappropriate sexual behaviour during his college years at Yale University. The New Yorker magazine reported on Sun...
Ethiopia’s new prime minister has been urged to investigate a raft of gruesome torture and abuse allegations involving senior officials in the country’s most notorious prison. Jail Ogaden, officially known as Jijiga central prison, is home to thousa...
A judicial inquiry must be launched into the extent of British involvement in kidnapping, false imprisonment and torture by the US during the “war on terror”, a group of former detainees says. In a letter to the Guardian nine former British nationa...
Though America has seen a string of mass shootings over the past year, no gun control legislation has been passed at the federal level. Three months after 17 people were killed and 17 injured at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Flo...
Athens, Greece Yanis Varoufakis (centre), a former finance minister, takes part in a workers’ rally. Much of the city centre is closed to traffic as labour unions stage traditional May Day demonstrations, while public transport is running a restric...
The United Nations is facing calls for a full review of its staff pension fund after the Guardian uncovered that it has around a billion dollars invested in companies whose activities are or have been incompatible with core UN principles and program...
A businessman has won his legal action to remove search results about a criminal conviction in a landmark “right to be forgotten” case that could have wide-ranging repercussions. The ruling was made by Mr Justice Warby in London on Friday. The judg...
A businessman has won his legal action to remove search results about a criminal conviction in a landmark “right to be forgotten” case that could have wide-ranging repercussions. The ruling was made by Mr Justice Warby in London on Friday. The judg...
Junko Iizuka* was 16 when she was taken to a clinic in north-east Japan and forced to have a mystery operation that, she later discovered, would prevent her from ever having children. “I was given anaesthetic and I didn’t remember anything after tha...
Victims of the serial sex attacker John Worboys have welcomed the overturning of the Parole Board’s decision to release him but said they still feel “let down” by the criminal justice system. The unprecedented legal challenge, brought by two unnamed...
Human rights defenders who challenge big corporations are being killed, assaulted, harassed and suppressed in growing numbers, researchers have claimed. A survey by the Business and Human Rights Resource Center recorded a 34% global rise in attacks...