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Swedish music festival canceled after spate of rape cases
Organizers of Sweden’s Bråvalla annual music festival have decided to call off the 2018 event after this year’s festival was marred by sexual violence. Police say they are looking into over a dozen reports of molestation and at least four cases of rape all of them done by migrants.
Swedish police have confirmed they are investigating four potential rapes and some 22 counts of molestation reported...
American tourist gang-raped in northern India
An Indian woman walks past graffiti against rape written on a wall in New Delhi on April 22, 2013.
An American female tourist has been gang-raped by a group of truckers in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, police say.
The 30-year-old woman was picked up by three men in a truck late on Monday while hitchhiking to her hotel in Manali town, a tourist resort in the foothills of the Himalayas.
The...
Woman raped in Congo 'nearly every minute'
Women in certain parts of Congo are 134 times more likely to be raped than a woman in the United States.
A woman is raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo nearly every minute and is 134 times more likely to be raped there than in the US, according to a new study which found rates 26 times higher than earlier estimates.
More than 400,000 women aged 15 to 49 were raped in a 12 month period, the researchers...