Billboards remind johns (and everyone else) in Edmonton, Alberta that buying sex is a crime in Canada. Donald Trump just keeps getting caught on tape being sexist, this time he visited France…
Sex trade survivors are bringing a legal challenge against the UK government in an attempt to expunge all criminal records for solicitation. Two Ontario police officers have been charged in the 2016…
Robert Trigg, a British man with a documented history of domestic violence, has been found guilty of killing two of his former girlfriends; Caroline Devlin in 2006 and Susan Nicholson in 2011.…
Julian Assange demanded that filmmaker Laura Poitras censor the parts of her documentary Risk that dealt with the sexual assault allegations against him. The Guardian describes one of the scenes he wanted…
Bertrand Charest, a former ski coach, has been convicted of 37 criminal offenses related to the abuse and exploitation of his young, female students 20 years ago. It’s the 45th anniversary of…
Renee Rabinowitz, an 83 year-old woman, won her case against Israeli airline El Al. The court ruled that when airline employees asked Rabinowitz to switch seats in order to accommodate the demands…
In a small farming village in South Korea, a dozen or so women, ranging in age from their 60s to 80s, are at the forefront of protests against the deployment of a…
Canada’s Indigenous Affairs minister urges parliament to reject a bill that would end all sex discrimination in the Indian Act, asking for more time and consultation. The act dates back to the…
The criminal trial of Bill Cosby on charges related to the 2004 drugging and sexual assault of Andrea Constand started in Philadelphia today. Prosecutors opened by arguing that this assault was predatory…
Two supervisors and a guard at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn have been criminally charged with the sexual abuse of nine female inmates: “Prosecutors say one lieutenant repeatedly raped an inmate…
Swedish prosecutors announce that they are ending their investigation into rape charges against Julian Assange, saying there is no way to detain or charge him “in the foreseeable future.” Julie Bindel investigates…
Infant mortality in the US is at a historical low, but maternal mortality rates are higher than in any other developed country, and they are rising. The Canadian Senate committee on Legal…
What’s Current: Toronto police sergeant on trial for sexually assaulting two women in his police car
In Toronto, two women testified against Christopher Heard, a police sergeant, who is accused of sexually assaulting the women in his police car after offering them rides home. Heard took the stand…
Donald Trump has appointed an anti-abortion campaigner and “Public Enemy #1” of reproductive rights, Charmaine Yoest, to a senior post at the Department of Health and Human Services. Yoest is the former…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez campaign for an anti-abortion candidate in Nebraska. Sanders defended the decision, saying Democrats “can’t exclude people who disagree with us on one…