On Avignon’s Ancient Ramparts, Modern Messages Denounce ‘Rape Culture’
A feminist collective, the Amazons of Avignon, has been plastering the walls of the city with testimony from the trial of the ...
Dominique Pelicot given maximum 20-year sentence in France rape trial that has shocked the world
Dominique Pelicot, 72, has been found guilty of all charges in the rape and drugging of his then-wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and on ...
With Guilty Verdicts, Rape Victim’s Ordeal in France Becomes a Message of Hope
Dozens of men who abused Gisèle Pelicot were convicted, including the man who invited them to do so: her husband of 50 years.
Gisèle Pelicot thanks backers after her ex-husband and his co-defendants are convicted in rape trial
Dominique Pelicot and 49 other men were tried in the southern French city of Avignon for aggravated rape and attempted rape and face up to 20 years imprisonment if convicted.
The France rape trial throws up a difficult question about porn fantasies - and male desire
Are extreme fantasies about dominating women that were once just that - fantasies - now becoming more normalised in reality ...
Merci, Gisèle: Can France's Mass Rape Case Lead To A Global Reckoning?
Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot’s bravery has managed to shift the ‘shame’ often associated with sexual abuse from the victim to ...
France’s landmark mass rape trial is over. But the Pelicot case demonstrates that systemic violence against women runs deep
It’s the landmark trial that has upended French society and prompted some deep soul searching about sexual violence and ...
How verdicts in Gisèle Pelicot's trial could usher in a second wave of France's #MeToo movement
A landmark mass rape trial in France has exposed abuse orchestrated by the victim's husband, and a culture that many ...