2 days ago - According to Middle East Eye, the ... about sexual abuse in "a patriarchal society reluctant to address such atrocities". The special rapporteurs have also raised concerns over a number of Palestinian women and children going missing, with reports of children being separated from their parents. In one instance a female infant was reportedly forcibly moved to Israel by the IDF...

(Gili Yaari /FLASH90) One in six female Israel Defense Forces soldiers was sexually harassed during their military service, a study published Sunday by the army found. The results of the internal survey revealed that just under 16 percent of women currently serving in the IDF said they had ...

November 28, 2022 - About a third of women soldiers doing their mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces have experienced sexual harassment at least once in the past year, according to a State Comptroller report released on Monday.

RAINN is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline in partnership with more than 1,000 local sexual assault service providers across the country. If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, help is available.

March 13, 2025 - To learn more about Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage. 13 March 2025, English only Human Rights Council Fifty-eighth session “More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive ...

February 22, 2024 - Experts report evidence of rape, sexual humiliation and threats of rape against girls and women

June 1, 2023 - Abstract Israeli denials and classification of documents, alongside scholarly work (Nitsán 2007; Wood 2006), have all contributed to the perception that aside from the 1948 war and its aftermath, rape and other forms of sexual violence are missing from Israel's military toolbox.

February 20, 2024 - Experts expressed ‘shock’ and ‘distress’ at allegations that IDF officers had raped, assaulted, and strip-searched female prisoners

Annual report by Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel finds 91% increase of calls to sexual violence hotlines.

There are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence — including rape and gang-rape — occurred across multiple locations of Israel and the Gaza periphery during the attacks on 7 October 2023, a senior United Nations official reported to the Security Council today, ...

The IDF released figures of sexual assault for 2020 in February of last year with 1,542 complaints, including 26 cases of rape, 391 obscene acts, and 92 cases of distributing photos and videos.

GENEVA - Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive ...

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1 out of every 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime.

January 30, 2017 - 22% of Complaints Were Filed Against Career Officers and Noncommissioned Officers, With About a Quarter of These Against Relatively High-ranking Officers.

July 4, 2023 - Our years of experience offering 24/7 support for people in abusive relationships has been informed by these domestic violence statistics.

February 20, 2024 - "Those responsible for these apparent crimes must be held accountable and victims and their families are entitled to full redress and justice."

March 13, 2025 - Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council alleged on Thursday that sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians – including children - have been increasingly used “as a method of war” following the 7 October 2023 attacks ...

Lifetime risk for violent victimization including sexual assault for women who live with homelessness and mental illness is 97%. (12) These statistics were compiled by the North Coast Rape Crisis Team · 1 U.S. Dept. of Justice, Violence Against Women Report, 2002. 2 Population Information Program, Population Reports: Ending Violence Against Women, 2004. 3 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee: Conviction & Imprisonment Statistics, 1993. 4 This is an often quoted percentage...

GENEVA (19 February 2024) – UN experts* today expressed alarm over credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which Palestinian women and girls continue to be subjected in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.