Tag Archives: Sexual abuse

Getty Images Mukesh Kapila, University of Manchester I first visited the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1994 during the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. In Goma’s emergency hospital, I witnessed rows and rows of rape survivors who had fled across the border. A quarter-century later, it is hurting again in the same place, for the …

Lopolo/Shutterstock Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University; Jessica Ringrose, UCL, and Kaitlynn Mendes, University of Leicester After weeks of national discussions about women and girls’ safety, the term “rape culture” has made headlines again. This time it relates to widespread reports of sexual violence against teenagers in secondary education, some of which include Britain’s most prestigious fee-paying schools. The revelations came …

Lopolo/Shutterstock Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University; Jessica Ringrose, UCL, and Kaitlynn Mendes, University of Leicester After weeks of national discussions about women and girls’ safety, the term “rape culture” has made headlines again. This time it relates to widespread reports of sexual violence against teenagers in secondary education, some of which include Britain’s most prestigious fee-paying schools. The revelations came …

Michael Balog Ailish Saker, University of Oxford It’s now almost five years since ex-professional footballer Andy Woodward first waived his anonymity to speak out about the abuse he suffered as a child. His decision to come forward broke the silence that had long plagued football, resulting in a surge of disclosures of non-recent child sexual abuse across numerous professional and …