UK media - Violence against women

It is not illegal for women to ride their bikes together. For the past five years I have undertaken a project called “Ride for Murdered Women”. It started as a small personal tribute to honour the…

Like other serious crimes of violence, rape is a male crime. This is a judgment of law and of fact. Scots law defines rape as non-consensual penetration with a

Violence against women and girls will be elevated to the same status as terrorism under a proposed government directive, The Times has learnt.Chief constables w

Only one in 15 of all crimes over the past year led to a suspect being charged, official figures have revealed. This has been attributed to a record number o

Daisy, 45, overcame years of police inaction after persuading her mother to testify against Carvel Bennett

A loophole in official guidelines means hospitals are still forcing female patients to mix with men on wards

JK Rowling has mocked an online troll who threatened her with a pipe bomb over her views on gender.The author tweeted a screenshot of the death threat as a demonstration of the hate mail she has

Street harassment such as wolf-whistling could become a specific crime under government plans to protect women and girls.Priti Patel, the home secretary, has pledged to consider the case for a new

Rape suspects are able to self-identify as female, it was revealed after a freedom of information request by a feminist policy think-tank.Police Scotland said that if a rape or attempted rape was

Rape victims have the legal right to be treated by female forensic teams before going to the police after a new law was passed at Holyrood last night.A change to the legislation ensured that the