“It’s partly cultural and partly the way the rules and regulations and social policy work in Canada," she said. "The social net is a little bit tighter in Canada. Guns laws are very different, community cohesion is stronger with less individualism. “We’ve seen that before when we do comparisons on murder rates and those kinds of things.”

Travel website TripAdvisor has added tags informing users of hotels where sexual assaults have been reported. The warning badges are designed to identify health, discrimination and safety issues, the company said. The announcement came after the website was accused of deleting several reviews in which users reported being sexually assaulted at hotels in Mexico.

Five years since a brutal gang-rape that galvanised a movement against sexual assault in India, women who report the crime are still routinely harassed by police or bullied into silence, according to research released in Delhi on Wednesday. 'Her pain should be our pain': the woman tackling Delhi's rape crisis Read more The Human Rights Watch report found that willingness to report rape and other sexual offences had significantly grown, but was often stymied by regressive community attitudes, particularly outside big cities.

While it may be tempting to mock, dismiss or even recoil in horror as some of the "as the father of" or "as the mother of" logic enters the public debate, as accounts from parents whose views and actions are clearly informed to some extent by the dynamic of their role as a parent, their gender and the gender of their child multiply, I wonder if there's something to this?

"...in India survivors of a sexual assault are often either blamed or pitied as somehow irreparably soiled. So the actress's defiance was a watershed moment. "She changed the whole narrative with that single act of bravery." She also inspired her female colleagues to start a conversation they'd never had before. At first they were simply phoning each other out of shock — and to discuss ways they could lend the actress their public support."

'Are you happy when you see a girl walking down the street with half of her behind showing?' the lawyer asked on the Infrad Show (via Variety Alarabiya English). 'I say that when a girl walks about like that, it is a patriotic duty to sexually harass her and a national duty to rape her.'

“Even when women are not blamed for the violence they endure, they are seen as the main force that can and should do something to alleviate the problem,” he added. “Men are never seen as the problem, as everyone believes that men cannot be changed.” But these men have set out to disprove this idea.

Mukwege has earned the moniker 'The man who mends women' for the work he and his colleagues at Panzi Hospital have done to treat thousands (46,000 according to recent reports) of women and girls, survivors of rape and sexual violence which has been used as a weapon of war since conflict began in the east of the DRC in 1995.

“Even the term ‘violence against women’ is problematic…It’s a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term, ‘violence against women,’ nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them…Men aren’t even a part of it.”

It's an assault active drug users often don't report out of shame, distrust of police, or fear they'll be labeled a "cop caller" and have trouble buying heroin. It's an injury women say they can't figure out how to prevent. And it's one few doctors think to ask about, and thus rarely treat.

“The Kung Fu Nuns are heroes of the Himalayas. They are fiercely compassionate and brave. Not even earthquakes, avalanches, monsoons and cloudbursts can stand in their way."