Since the gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi last year, India has become the world’s rape capital. An American website recently satirized the problem by joking about an ...

Indian doctors in government hospitals across several states halted elective services "indefinitely" on Monday to protest the rape and murder of a young medic. The 31-year-old woman's brutalized body ...

Editor’s Note: This article contains details that readers may find distressing. Five years ago, a 13-year-old girl, the daughter of poor wage laborers from one of India’s most marginalized communities ...

A New Zealand judge has rejected leniency requests tied to an Indian-origin Uber driver's prison sentence over rape charges. His lawyer cited his 'Sikh Indian' identity for the same.

Indian authorities on Tuesday arrested seven men in connection with the gang rape of a Brazilian tourist, sparking fury over the country’s lack of progress in addressing gender-based violence. The ...

Police have arrested six men after a woman riding a bus in India was gang raped Friday evening, less than a month since the death of an Indian woman who was gang raped and brutally beaten while riding ...

Observing that there is an implicit assumption that "marital rape" can be allowed within a conjugal marriage, he reiterated, ...

Shashi Tharoor expressed his dismay over India's status as one of the few democracies that does not criminalize marital rape, ...