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Independent.co.uk, 23 Sep 2014 One of the biggest department stores in the Philippines has been forced to withdraw a T-shirt which appeared to justify rape after outrage erupted online. The offending item, sold in the boys section at SM Supermalls, was emblazoned with the logo: �It�s not rape. It�s a snuggle with a struggle�. An image of the T-shirt posted on writer Karen Kunawicz�s Facebook

Al Jazeera English, 12 Jun 2014 An Indian woman has alleged that she was gang-raped by four officers at a police station in the state of Uttar Pradesh state, barely two weeks after two teenage girls were gang-raped and hanged from a tree in another area of the state. The woman said she had gone to the station overnight on Monday in the state's Hamirpur district to seek her husband's release when

Reuters, 30 May 2014 The owner and manager of a children's boarding school in western India have been arrested after five minors said they were raped, forced to watch pornographic films and act them out with one another, police and charity workers said. The children were made to eat faeces as a punishment if they did not comply. The 52-year-old owner of the Chandraprabha Charitable Trust and his

The Guardian, 29 May 2014 Authorities in northern India have arrested three men, including two police officers, suspected of gang-raping and killing two teenage sisters before hanging their bodies from a mango tree. The deaths have sparked renewed public outrage over sexual violence in the country. Villagers found the girls' bodies on Wednesday morning, hours after they disappeared from fields