Posts Tagged ‘Rape’

Sexual assault rising in ‘world’s most liveable city’

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Melbourne was recently ranked the world’s most liveable city, yet according to Victorian police crime statistics, those who live in Victoria, Australia are more likely to be sexually assaulted, and physically assaulted at home. The annual Victorian police crime statistics report 83% of sexual assault victims were women 36% of rape victims were raped by someone they Read more

Congo women raped – one a minute

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

More than 400,000 Congo women and girls between the ages of 15 to 49 were raped during the 12-month period of war in 2006 and 2007. This new figure is 26 times more than the 15,000 women that the United Nations has reported were raped there during the same 12 months. The figures were published Read more