Sexual harassment

Authorities in the Argentinian capital will fine people up to $60 for sexual harassment in public places under a new law.

The bill was passed in the city legislature on Dec. 7 in Buenos Aires, where casual sexual harassment is common and traditionally widely tolerated.

BELGRADE - Amendments to the penal code, introduction of new crimes and stricter minimum and maximum sentences will be a part of measures aimed at fighting various forms of domestic and social violence and bullying, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic announced Friday.

A Turkish exchange student was reportedly raped by three Afghan refugees in a train station in the Austrian capital Vienna on April 22, according to the Austrian press. 

One in five people worldwide report having paid a bribe for land, with rates even higher in sub-Saharan Africa where women say they are forced to trade sex for property rights, according to research by a top global anti-corruption watchdog. 

Most women Kosovo have been sexually harassed at least once in their lives, according to a new survey published on Monday by the Kosova Women Network, KWN.

The published data suggest that 64.1 per cent of women were harassed last year compared with 32.5 per cent of men.

An official report confirmed that migrants were involved in the assaults targeting women, which occurred on New Year's Eve in the German city of Cologne.

According to the report, which was presented by the interior minister of the state of Rhine-Westphalia on Monday, the majority of the suspects were of migrant origin, being mainly North African and Arab.

Cologne police have said that the number of women claiming that they were assaulted on New Year’s Eve has risen to 379 with half of the cases reported involving crimes of a sexual nature.

Police said on Saturday that the number of cases reported to them had reached 379 and about 40 % of which involved allegations of sexual offences.

Ferocious talks emerged in Germany and other European countries over the sexual assaults against women occurred by men of Arab or North African origin on New Year Eve’s  in five German cities and other cities in Europe.

German people demand explanations from German authorities about the handling of the attacks and ask them to reveal the identity of the perpetrators.

Finnish police have revealed an unusually high level of sexual harassment in Helsinki on New Year's Eve and said they had been tipped off about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women, AFP has reported.

The massive sexual attacks occurred on New Year’s Even in Cologne, Germany are proven to be large-scale incidents, since similar assault were recorded in at least four other German cities, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt.