Rape victims will be given access to specialist legal advice throughout the criminal justice process, the government has announced. The reforms will also expand the principles of Operation Soteria ...

Rape, as a crime, is widely deplored. Society and media condemn rapists, and rape and other sexually-related crimes carry potentially heavy prison sentences when perpetrators are convicted. So why, ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of rapes and sexual offences recorded by police in England and Wales has soared to record levels, official figures showed on Thursday, a jump police ...

A Labour MP has spoken publicly for the first time about being raped as she accused Justice Secretary David Lammy of using crime victims as a "cudgel" to push through his reforms of the legal system.

Cuts to funding for victims’ services is a “false economy” which costs more to the taxpayer than it saves, a charity has warned, saying that services are now at a “crisis point” in Britain. Analysis ...

Rape support groups have expressed “serious concerns” over self-swab “rape kits” being marketed towards university students in the UK. The kits allow people who have been sexually assaulted or raped ...