Protesters gathered in the Indian-controlled Kashmiri city of Srinagar to decry the brutal gang rape and murder of eight-year-old Muslim nomad Asifa Bano, and to demand the perpetrators be brought to justice.

Eight men accused of raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl pleaded not guilty as Indians hold protests to slam New Delhi’s response to a string of rape cases in the country.

Mounting outrage over two rapes, one in the disputed region of Kashmir and another allegedly involving a lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, gripped India on Friday.

There has been an upsurge in rape incidents especially in Punjab province this year.

Thousands of Yemenis have held a demonstration in Sana’a, calling for an end to the Saudi-led military aggression against the impoverished country.

A former South Korean presidential contender has stepped down as a provincial governor and announced his retirement from politics in a stunning political fall after a female aide accused him of multiple rapes.

An opinion poll shows that one in every eight French women has been raped at least once in her lifetime.

The suspect was arrested near the Pakistani city of Kasur, where Zainab Ansari was killed earlier this month.

Pakistani authorities arrest a man being treated as a prime suspect in the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl.

Protests over the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl, Zainab Ansari, in Pakistan's eastern town of Kasur continued on Thursday ahead of funerals of those killed in protests on the previous day.