Seoul's outspoken mayor Park Won-soon, long seen as a potential South Korean presidential candidate, was found dead Friday, police said. He was 64.

On Wednesday, June 18, at about 3pm in New York, I spoke with Kelechi Udoagwu, the young woman, who reported being sexually assaulted by Kendall Ananyi, co-founder of a Y-combinator-backed tech startup, Tizeti.

The conversation around the issue of rape is one that has been going on for a long time now but in recent times has once again taken the front burner. Hardly a day goes by without seeing a reported or alleged case of rape either on the news be it traditional news media or social…

Nigerian actor Seun Ajayi has spoken out against sexual harassment in the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood. In an Instagram video captioned "Sexual harassment in Nollywood! My brothers let's do better", Ajayi addresses men on the need to make their female colleagues feel safe to work in the industry. "This video is addressed to my brothers…

Stakeholders working on gender-related issues have lamented the absence of sexual harassment policy in Nigerian schools.

Dr Aisha Bawa, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto (UDUS), has recommended the recruitment of more female lecturers as a panacea

Sexual Violence is the general term used to describe any kind of unwanted sexual act or attempt directed towards an individual, irrespective of the relationship to the victim. It includes activities such as rape, child sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, female genital mutilation and others.

National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Professor Biodun Ogunyemi has canvassed a review of existing laws on sexual harassment, saying such laws

The management of Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna State, has terminated the appointment of a former Head of Department (HOD) of Civil Engineering, Engineer Danjuma Alhassan

The Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Effurun, Delta State has sacked a lecturer and demoted four academic and one non-academic staff over cash-for-grades

In its bid to sanitise the academic system and eradicate sexual harassment, authorities of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO)

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) yesterday condemned the persistent occurrence of sexual harassment against students, saying it was not unique...