Sexual harassment

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.

About 90 women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at New Year celebrations outside Cologne’s cathedral.

The police said the attackers were young, mostly drunk, men, describing the attacks as ‘a new dimension in crime’, as Reuters reports.

Footage of a social experiment shows a woman being ‘groped’ in a fake assault on a train with other passengers rushing to help her, as posted in Daily Mail.

The woman actress is filmed standing on a packed tube carriage in London, when a male actor starts brushing up against her in front of other passengers.

A court in Diyarbak?r reduced the sentence of Y.T., 22, who beat and raped a 14-year-old, because of his respectful stance and his wearing of a tie during his trial.

A former professor who said that girls neded only know "how to walk provocatively", has resigned as state secretary within the Education Ministry.

Vasile Salaru, 54, resigned on Thursday followed complaints from civic organisations who called Selaru's opinions sexist.

A Turkish court has sentenced a man, who initially faced a total of 150 years in prison for drugging and sexually abusing two 14-year-old girls and one 15-year-old girl after faking his ID, to 10 years in jail due to his "respectable attitude" at the hearings. 

So far studies have shown that Greek libidos are flagging as a result of the country’s economic crisis, however new research published in Thrillist has come to disprove the notion! Dr. Simon Hardy of the University of Worcester states that the downturn in the economy hasn’t affected the confidence level of Greeks at all in his study “The Greeks, Eroticism and Ourselves.”

According to a new study, working with men in specific industries is bad for women. Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington found that female employees working in male-dominated areas such as science, tech and engineering had higher levels of stress.

20-year-old Lilaf Selim and her 19-year-old sister Nadia, who fled the war in Syria with their family four years ago, say they are forced to leave every single job they find in Turkey due to sexual harassment.

The Greek police cyber crime squad announced the cracking of an internet pornography case involving a young girl, aged 17, as the victim. The investigation was launched after the mother of the young girl reported that her daughter had been talking to strangers on social media and had, at some point, sent racy photographs.