A human rights lawyer is warning landlords that asking for sex in lieu of rent is a criminal offence.

Defendants should remain anonymous in rape trials unless they are convicted, according to the Bar Council of Ireland, a view supported by the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI).

The Rape Crisis Network has praised a judge, Gardaí and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) after a man was jailed for filming an upskirt video at Dublin's Pride parade at the weekend.

One-quarter of sexual assaults reported to gardaí last year related to incidents that happened more than a decade ago.

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Gardaí have been notified about graffiti in a Co Cork school’s boys toilets that invited people to pick a female student to be raped.

It’s vital to remember that our current trailblazers stand on the shoulders of the many women who fought at the coalface of sexual inequality, writes Lindsey Earner Byrne

It was inspiring to see the stars wear black on the red carpet to support the victims of sexual violence, but what happens to the ordinary people who stand up and say, ‘Me Too’?

There are calls for the Government to carry out a new study into sexual violence, 15 years from when the first one was published.

The Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI), responding to the Government’s announcement of a referendum to be held on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, call on participants in the public debate to be respectful and informed by the best available facts and compassionate understanding when discussing the realities facing girls and women in Ireland pregnant following rape.

A woman who waived her anonymity to name her rapist has said the recent controversy surrounding George Hook’s comments on rape has highlighted a need for the media to review how it discusses the topic.

Rape Crisis Network Ireland has criticised Cork City Council after it passed a vote of condolence following the death of a former lord mayor who was convicted of sexual assault.

A legal row over data protection has erupted between the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI) and a State agency over its right to publish information gathered from abuse victims.

Targeting of the all- female cast of a new movie is a symptom of a wider misogyny, writes Áilín Quinlan

Contrary to the natural assumption that more female jurors would find in favour of the victim, Irish academic research shows that female-dominated juries are less likely to convict a rapist.

The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill is a crucial response to one of our most significant public health problems. Alcohol misuse claims three lives every day in Ireland and we all know someone who has been affected in a harmful way by alcohol use — it is all too common.

A number of senior academics have come together in support of the Rape Crisis Network Ireland as the organisation struggles to cope with massive cuts in Government funding.

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has defended the decision to cease funding the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland, saying areas had been identified where the money could be used better.

Speculation is mounting that a third high-profile organisation has resigned from the board of the controversial Diageo-funded alcohol awareness campaign.

UCC Students’ Union have put together a video with the aim of tackling the taboo surrounding the crime of rape.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar should "unequivocally" say whether he supports a drinks industry-funded alcohol awareness campaign after claims the initiative is a "smokescreen" to take the political focus away from wider legal reforms.

Rather than turning a blind eye, parents need to give a clear message about the dangers of underage drinking, a child and adolescent psychiatrist tells Helen O’Callaghan.

We are very quick to condemn the public gang rapes, sometimes followed by the victim’s murder, that seem routine in India.

The explosion in digital media has led to a growing problem of online abuse, which is frequently targeted at women, often with serious and damaging consequences.

The amount of porn young teenagers are accessing is causing so much damage to their psychological growth it must be seen as a major public health crisis.

One of the country’s leading forensic psychologists has said the man responsible for raping two girls, aged six and nine, in Westmeath may not have been motivated by sexual desire but by an overwhelming urge to be violent.

SHE was a darling daughter, her death notice said, and a happy, intelligent, interested girl, according to her school.

Young people need to be given the tools to report on whether they've been a victim of sexual violence, the Rape Crisis Network has said.

Irish teenagers can’t talk about sex never mind find the confidence to refuse or report unwanted sex, according to a new report.

An adult entertainer has claimed an amateur Irish DJ is an internet troll who emailed her with rape threats.

The high volume of investigations into suspected possession of child porn has caused a backlog of up to four years in the Garda office responsible for forensically examining computers.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has said it would be slow to recommend a change in the age of consent from 17 to 16.

Victims of domestic and sexual violence are calling for a register of abusers to be set up to protect women from men with a history of abuse.

All too often, parents in the past were lulled into a false sense of security that their children were occupied watching television, but it was largely controlled. Now children have the added distractions of video games or the internet, which is essentially unmonitored, because they can expose children to dangerous levels of explicit sex and violence.

The vast majority of the 37% of children who are sexually abusing other children are not classic paedophiles but abuse due to neglect, emotional, physical or sexual abuse, and increasingly because of exposure to porn or an over-sexualised homeplace.

Over a third of people who carry out child sexual abuse are children themselves - and the vast majority are boys.

An Garda Síochána repeatedly refused to make any information available to the Irish Examiner on its two-year investigation into how gardaí handled allegations of clerical abuse in the Murphy Report.

We, the undersigned, call on Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter and all Oireachtas members to support amending the Courts Bill 2013 to regulate the admission of the counselling notes of the child witness in a sexual violence criminal case.

The Rape Crisis Network of Ireland has backed calls for the accused in sex assault cases to have the same right to anonymity as the alleged victim, until found guilty.

The Garda Commissioner says he has ordered a review of the Domhnall O Lubhlai case.