Rose and Pippa Milthorpe were re-traumatised by the court process after coming forward about sexual abuse perpetrated by a close family friend nine years ago, and were behind a push for reforms.
A teenager convicted for raping a fellow school student at a house party west of Sydney has claimed the act was consensual, attacking the victim's credibility.
Two New York hospitals have agreed to pay more than $260 million to 147 former patients who have accused a former gynecologist of sexual abuse and misconduct.
Three-quarters of the almost 10,000 people who undertook the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) survey reported having been subject to sexual violence.
A contact tracer posed as a health department official to trick his way into a Melbourne woman's bedroom and threatened to have her deported unless she performed sexual acts on him.
An Australian who shouted "Where is Peng Shuai?" and held up a sign with the same message was removed from Centre Court during the Wimbledon men's final.
An attorney for Nxivm founder Keith Raniere asked for his conviction to be vacated, alleging in a court filing the FBI tampered with key evidence in the case against him.
Nearly two weeks after CNN president Jeff Zucker was forced out of his position, his former lieutenant Allison Gollust has also resigned from the company.
A former assistant and an expert on false memories testified for Ghislaine Maxwell's defense on Thursday as her legal team got its first opportunity to call witnesses to the stand.
The move came after an outside law firm was retained to review information about exactly how Cuomo aided his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, when the then-governor was accused of sexual harassment.
The Jenkins report, titled 'Set the Standard', heard from 1723 current and former parliamentary staff, and contains statistics the Prime Minister described as "appalling".
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called on all Australians to do more to make women feel safe in the face of domestic violence and sexual assault in a keynote speech which was quick to be criticised by advocates.
Former federal Liberal MP Julia Banks has launched another scathing attack on Prime Minister Scott Morrison, while also alleging an unnamed senior cabinet minister touched her inappropriately at Parliament House.