Editor’s Note: This article contains details that readers may find distressing. Five years ago, a 13-year-old girl, the daughter of poor wage laborers from one of India’s most marginalized communities ...

Indian doctors in government hospitals across several states halted elective services "indefinitely" on Monday to protest the rape and murder of a young medic. The 31-year-old woman's brutalized body ...

Since the gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi last year, India has become the world’s rape capital. An American website recently satirized the problem by joking about an ...

Indian authorities on Tuesday arrested seven men in connection with the gang rape of a Brazilian tourist, sparking fury over the country’s lack of progress in addressing gender-based violence. The ...

Thousands of medical workers in India are continuing their protests over the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor. A police volunteer has been arrested and charged in connection with the crime. The ...

New Delhi — India's government has told the country's Supreme Court that criminalizing marital rape would be "excessively harsh," as it opposes petitions with the court seeking to amend a British ...

Shashi Tharoor expressed his dismay over India's status as one of the few democracies that does not criminalize marital rape, ...

Observing that there is an implicit assumption that "marital rape" can be allowed within a conjugal marriage, he reiterated, ...

Police have arrested six men after a woman riding a bus in India was gang raped Friday evening, less than a month since the death of an Indian woman who was gang raped and brutally beaten while riding ...

“I knew then this wasn’t entertainment; it was ministry.” On a humid evening in June 2019, 18-year-old Joel Salvi stepped onto the stage inside a dimly lit Catholic church in Pune, a city in India’s ...