Rape prosecutions 'must improve'
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Police and prosecutors are failing to implement measures designed to boost the rape conviction rate, a watchdog warns.
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New US government guidelines say rape victims and others exposed to Aids should get anti-retroviral drugs.
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A report by Welsh MPs calls for prisons to be built in the north and more facilities for young offenders and women.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - A military judge hearing evidence in the abuse cases at Abu Ghraib prison demanded yesterday that prosecutors speed up the investigation.
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Pakistan  says it will present a bill in parliament on Wednesday to reform the handling of rape cases.
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Parliament is expected to vote to allow evidence in rape cases other than the required four male eyewitnesses.
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Prosecution lawyers are criticised for failing to inform victims of crime when charges are dropped or changed.
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Authorities once had no choice but to drop rape cases if they weren't able to catch a suspect before the statute of limitations expired. But prosecutors across the country increasingly are buying themselves time, keeping cold cases alive by indicting unidentified rapists using their DNA profiles.
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Ministers are to consult on creating a crime of forced marriage in the UK.
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Prosecutors say there is insufficient evidence to bring charges in the cash-for-honours inquiry.
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Prosecutors in the Michael Jackson child molestation case want to include as evidence previous allegations of sex offenses for which police did not charge the singer.
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A convicted rapist claims his human rights have been breached because he has not been granted early release.
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Defense attorneys argued that Kobe Bryant&#39;s statements to investigators after the NBA star was accused of rape last summer should be kept secret because it is not yet certain they will be used in his trial.
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Proposed law suggests fines, jail sentences for guilty parties.
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More needs to be done to ensure a more coordinated the approach to flooding in NI, a NI minister says.
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Police should be paid according to their performance and skills in tackling dangerous crimes rather than on length of service, a think tank has suggested on Monday.
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BOSTON - In the 1970s, rape crisis counselors celebrated when states began to pass laws designed to stop lawyers from discrediting victims with salacious details about their sex lives.    But three decades later, after all 50 states approved such rape shield laws, the Kobe Bryant case has shown that even those protections are not enough to prevent the most intimate details of an alleged victim's life from becoming public and sometimes even fair game for prosecutors...