Crimes Against Humanity

A woman who was raped hundreds of times in her sleep by her husband has admitted that she is not receiving any counselling following the traumatic events – because she is on a waiting list.

Payday businesses unlawfully file over 1,500 criminal complaints against those who have borrowed from them, and police are complicit in these false reports and arrests. Texas Appleseed, a nonprofit...

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As in feminism, there have been a number of waves in the sex worker movement. This is due in no small part to the turnover in activists themselves, for it is they who help shape conversations as we...

Sohair al-Bata’a, the 13-year-old girl who died after undergoing FGM.

An Egyptian court has acquitted the first doctor ever brought to trial in Egypt on female genital mutilation charges that resulted in the death of 13-year-old Sohair al-Bata’a.

The doctor and Sohair’s father were both referred to trial after Sohair died in June 2013 at Raslan Halawa’s private medical clinic while undergoing an FGM operation at her father’s request.

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Arnold Abbott, 90, was arrested for feeding the homeless in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Tuesday, but despite this was at it again on Wednesday - and was again arrested.

Governments are falling short in their efforts to combat impunity in the killing of journalists, with 90% of murderers walking free, according to a report issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

"The callousness and depravity with which these officers communicated about my client is dehumanizing, horribly offensive and degrading to all women. It's going to lead to another level of mistrust and skepticism to the motive of law enforcement in general" Earlier this week, we broke the story of California Highway Patrol officer Sean Harrington, a…

Less than 24 hours after Tanya Gonzalez’s car was discovered with a body in the trunk, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office identified a body in its possession as Tanya Gonzalez.

A frightening look at what happens when LGBTQ women of color refuse to accept street harassment and other violence

"A private, family-requested autopsy shows that Michael Brown was shot at least six times — twice in the head — with all of the bullets striking him in the front."

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“The sheer number of bullets and the way they were scattered all over his body showed this police officer had a brazen disregard for the very people he was supposed to protect in that community,” Mr. Crump said. “We want to make sure people understand what this case is about: This case is about a police officer executing a young unarmed man in broad daylight.”

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‘You’re not supposed to shoot so many times,’ said Dr. Baden

A Staten Island man died Thursday after a New York Police Department officer put him in a chokehold.

The incident was captured on video by a bystander and obtained by the The New York Daily News.

In humans you never see someone snap their leg off running in the Olympics. But you see it in horse racing.