sexual assault

The Costa Rica Chamber of Tourism has called an emergency meeting to address security issues and foreign tourists, especially in the Southern Caribbean as...

Costa Rica’s congress approved on Tuesday a bill that extends the statute of limitations for the crime of sexual abuse of minors.

The victim said she had been invited to Arias' house to deliver more information regarding an anti-nuclear armament campaign they had been discussing.  

A groundbreaking sexual slavery trial that began in Guatemala on Feb. 1 has exposed how the systematic rape of indigenous women has been used by landowners and the armed forces for over a century as a strategy to subdue native communities.

Two hundred current and returned Peace Corps volunteers around the world have signed a petition to the U.S. Congress to reinstate an outspoken advocate for victims of sexual assault who was pushed out four years after lawmakers demanded that the agency show it was serious about volunteers' security.

In just days, Bill Cosby's wife will be questioned under oath in a lawsuit brought by seven women who claim that many years ago her husband sexually abused them.

To the numerous women who have accused Bill Cosby of drugging and/or sexually assaulting them, the announcement that Cosby had been criminally charged with felony aggravated indecent assault Wednesday spelled relief and, on some level, vindication.

Reza Ray Ehsan, a 57-year-old family physician from Los Angeles, California, is being charged in Costa Rica for soliciting sex from a girl under 18 years of age.