Rape and sexual assault

The Sexual Assault Help Centers Data

H. Sexual assault workshops . 130 34

Rape and sexual assault 27 28 9

Sexual assault charges proven in court represented offences committed against less than 5 per cent of sexual assault victims in 2003.

6.1. Known crimes of rape or sexual assault . 11

Table 6.1. Known crimes of rape or sexual assault

12.5 All persons have the right to protection from rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse and sexual harassment. quot

Perpetrators of sexual assault were required to marry their victim.

In March 2004, the Northern Territory Minister for Justice and Attorney General established a Sexual Assault Task Force to tackle the rate of sexual assault across the territory.

Crimes of sexual assault rose from 2,282 to 3,055 (table 6.1).

Article 330 Sexual assault is defined as any sexual act committed with violence, coercion, threat, surprise or deceit.

3 Statistics by the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault.

Any sexual assault of children, however, is punishable as a criminal offence.

Rates of HIV AIDS infection increase, inter alia, owing to increased sexual assault.

Large numbers of Mauritian women endured daily violence, sexual assault, harassment and torture.

Exposed and helpless, they may be subjected to brutal sexual assault and rape.

PEP can protect against HIV infection if administered immediately after intercourse or sexual assault.

High numbers of women and girls suffer sexual assault, both within and outside marriage.

Alleged cases of domestic violence, rape, attempted rape and sexual assault are regularly reported.

The types of allegations ranged from inappropriate verbal conduct to sexual assault and rape.

Even though one third of adolescent girls report that their first sexual experience was forced, rape and sexual assault are rarely prosecuted.

The reform of sexual assault laws may have played a role in the increased reporting of crimes of sexual aggression to the police.

A significant number of victims of sexual assault lose their jobs or are forced to quit.

Cases of rape or sexual assault are frequent, though most of them never reach the courts.

The Special Rapporteur received testimony on the sexual assault of Tutsi women as a war tactic.

To assist the victims of gender violence and also support prosecution of cases, the International Rescue Committee has established sexual assault referral centres in Freetown and Kenema in the East, which provide free medical assistance to sexual assault victims.

Data collected in 2003 showed that the Northern Territory had the highest recorded rate of sexual assault of any jurisdiction in Australia, with 153 victims of sexual assault per 100,000 population, compared with a national rate of 92 per 100,000.

The New South Wales Attorney General has established a Criminal Justice Sexual Offences Task Force to explore ways to improve the criminal justice response in sexual assault matters and to consider legal, evidentiary and procedural barriers and the feasibility of creating a specialist sexual assault court in New South Wales.

The rate of reported sexual assault in New South Wales in 2004 was 79.5 per 100,000 population.

The units consist of a solicitor and two or three other staff, including a sexual assault worker.

The poor investigation of rape and sexual assault cases, particularly those involving children, remained a serious concern.

Please provide updated statistics and information on the incidence of sexual assault in Australia, including the reporting and conviction rate, and indicate what is being done to encourage women to make use of the criminal justice system to report incidents of sexual assault.

(i) That it is an exceptional measure, except in the case of victims of aggression or sexual assault

In addition, it focused on the human rights concerns of internally displaced persons, detainees and child victims of sexual assault.

Forty five per cent of those allegations involve sex with minors and 15 per cent involved rape or sexual assault.

The Government has committed AUS 75.7 million to raising awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault through the Women's Safety Agenda.

7. Italy has enacted legislation on sexual violence, broadening the scope of the previously used term and category of indecent assault.

Funding is also provided for three specialized programs, two for female victims of sexual assault and one for victims of domestic violence.

Rape and sexual assault take away women's control over when, with whom, and how they have sex, significantly increasing risk of HIV.

Ireland had enacted strong legislation criminalizing domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, stalking and harassment and other forms of violence against women.

Secondly, reports of rape and sexual assault against young children are not always being investigated or prosecuted in accordance with the law.

When you assault, you assault like tyrants!

When you assault, you assault like tyrants!

When you assault, you assault like tyrants.