Jokes about rape are never funny. So why do filmmakers keep making them?

Tamil director Mysskin’s remark that he would have ‘raped’ the actor Mammooty if he were a woman reflects a larger culture of misogyny in the movies.

Archana Nathan

· Jul 18, 2018 · 08:15 am

Writer KR Meera on the Dileep row: ‘By nature, Kerala men do not and cannot approve of survivors’

The debate surrounding Malayalam actor Dileep exposes the ‘patriarchal mindset that Malayalees are proud to possess’, says the renowned author.

Sharanya Manivannan

· Jul 09, 2018 · 08:15 am

Writer Junot Diaz is accused of harassment. It isn’t his art that matters – the women he hurt do

In the wake of allegations of abuse against the author, the point is not his writing or his own experiences.

Shreya Ila Anasuya

· May 06, 2018 · 12:30 pm

US Olympic Committee chief Scott Blackmun resigns after gymnastics sex abuse scandal

Scott Blackmun faced stinging criticism for his handling of the sex abuse case involving team doctor Larry Nassar.

AFP

· Mar 01, 2018 · 11:19 am

US education department to investigate Michigan State University’s handling of Nassar case

The 54-year-old has been accused by close to 265 women of sexually abusing them over a more than two-decade career.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 27, 2018 · 10:18 am

A Pakistani mother’s anguish at the rape-murder of 8-year-old Zainab: ‘She isn’t just a statistic’

The horrific crime has broken the taboo around child abuse in conservative Pakistani society, as parents and teachers lead conversations about it.

Mina Malik-Hussain

· Feb 06, 2018 · 11:30 am

‘Unfortunate,’ says Haryana chief minister on reports of five sexual assault cases in five days

The Congress met the governor over the ‘lawlessness’ in the state and demanded that he either ask the government to resign or impose President’s Rule.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 17, 2018 · 06:59 pm

Four reasons why even gender equality does not prevent sexual harassment

The problem is not an intellectual but a cultural one, argues the writer of a forthcoming book on being a woman in modern India.

Deepa Narayan

· Dec 23, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Before the news stories, these books predicted sexual violence in Hollywood

Numerous writers have chronicled a seamier side of the California dream, a world awash with drugs, sex, violence and abuses of power.

Billy J Stratton, The Conversation

· Dec 07, 2017 · 01:30 pm

Video: Will these Rohingya women get justice?

A Human Rights Watch documentary reveals disturbing first-hand accounts of Rohingya women who have accused Myanmar’s security forces of rape.

Skye Wheeler, Human Rights Watch

· Nov 19, 2017 · 09:15 am

One-stop centres for rape survivors in India are now resolving marital disputes

Created in the aftermath of the 2012 Delhi gangrape, the Nirbhaya Fund remains underused and the centres lack resources.

Jayshree Bajoria

· Nov 10, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Doctors in India continue to traumatise rape survivors with the two-finger test

Only nine states have adopted the 2014 guidelines on medico-legal care for survivors of sexual violence.

Jayshree Bajoria

· Nov 09, 2017 · 07:30 am