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Tag: Sex Crimes

Protesters chant slogans condemning the rape and murder of six-year-old girl Zainab Ansari in Kasur during a march in Karachi on January 12, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Akhtar Soomro
Posted inOpinion

Will Pakistan’s new anti-rape law make women safer?

by Akanksha Khullar February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

In response to prolonged mass protests against gender-based violence in the country – triggered by widely reported cases including the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in 2018, and the gang rape of a woman on a highway outside Lahore in September last year – Pakistan’s federal cabinet issued stricter anti-rape legislation, the Anti-Rape […]

Posted inSouth Korea

South Korea raises age of consent from 13 to 16

by AT Contributor May 13, 2020May 13, 2020
Posted inOpinion

South Korea needs harsher sentences for sex crimes

by Da-Sol Goh March 26, 2020March 26, 2020
Defrocked Thai Buddhist monk Wirapol Sukphol is seen in a 2013 video aboard a private a jet. Photo: YouTube
Posted inAT Finance, China, Germany, Middle East, Thailand, World

Thailand tackles its bad boy Buddhist monks

by Richard S Ehrlich August 14, 2018February 18, 2020
A rally in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, in support of a police officer arrested for the rape and murder of an eight-year-girl from a nomadic Muslim community. Photo: Twitter/ @Ishtiyaqbashir9
Posted inIndia, Pakistan, South Asia

India, Pakistan wildly at odds over horrific but similar child murders

by Majid Hyderi February 20, 2018February 18, 2020
Public housing estates in Singapore's Teck Whye area. Photo: Google Maps
Posted inAT Finance, Philippines, Singapore

Man, 46, gets six months for sexually luring teenage girl

by Asia Times staff December 14, 2017February 18, 2020
KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore. Photo: Google Maps
Posted inAT Finance, Philippines, Singapore

Man gets 12 months’ jail for having sex with underage girl

by Asia Times staff December 1, 2017February 18, 2020
This beauty salon in Niaosong district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, was allegedly a front for prostitution. Photo: Google Maps
Posted inAT Finance, China, Middle East, South Asia, Taiwan, Vietnam

Brothel disguised as beauty salon busted in Kaohsiung

by Asia Times staff August 31, 2017February 18, 2020
Representational image: iStock
Posted inIndia, Middle East, South Asia

Student bleeds to death after illegal abortion goes wrong

by Asia Times staff August 10, 2017February 18, 2020
Representational image. Photo: iStock
Posted inMiddle East

‘Pimp’ arrested, assets frozen

by Asia Times staff June 22, 2017February 18, 2020
Statue of justice. ThinkstockPhotos
Posted inUncategorized

Japan set to revise century-old sex crime laws

by Peter Langan June 8, 2017
Nga (not her real name),  mother of an abused girl, in her Hanoi home.
Nga's eight-year-old daughter still wails in her sleep, haunted by the memory of being molested by a family friend. Photo: AFP
Posted inAT Finance, France, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Pedophilia cases spark social media outcry in Vietnam

by Tran Thi Minh Ha March 23, 2017February 18, 2020

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