Refugees crammed onto rickety boats for the trip from Libya to Italy are increasingly being intercepted and sent back to Libya.
Uber bills itself as the "safest ride on the road" for its customers, but the company is now banned from operating in New Delhi after one of its drivers has been accused of raping a passenger. This case is the latest to draw attention to the dangers facing Indian women.
Allegations against Bill Cosby dating from decades ago have stirred a debate in the US over whether legal statutes of limitations should apply to sexual assault cases. Some countries, like Canada and the UK, don't have deadlines for prosecuting such cases, which has allowed prosecutors to open high-profile "historic cases" of assault with some success.
From India to Dubai to South Africa, cases of violence against women have become local and international news. Now, protesters in Kenya hope to raise awareness there after a gang rape.
Many Rwandan women who are genocide survivors are also rape survivors. Thousands of them bore children as a result and those children, and their mothers, now live at the margins of Rwandan society.
In the midst of overwhelming crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands of women have been sexually attacked, aid groups and grassroots organizations are trying to help women recover and rebuild their lives.
The scope of tragedy in eastern Congo defies comprehension. A war in the African country killed four-million people between 1998 and 2003 and one of the most gruesome features of the conflicts is the widespread use of rape as a weapon. The World's Jeb Sharp reports from Bukavu, in Congo's South Kivu Province.