Sexual harassment

A man who fatally beat a German student of Turkish origin while she was trying to protect two women from harassment has been sentenced to three years in jail, Turkish media has reported.

The 52-year-old teacher accused by parents of sexually harassing eight students, aged 10 and 11 years of age, is appearing before the Court of Misdemeanours in Trikala. He stands accused of displaying lewd and inappropriate behavior but denies charges.

A 26-year-old man faced a prosecutor on Saturday after being caught in the act of performing sexually lewd acts in front of schoolchildren in Thessaloniki.

Özgehan Arslan was a 20-year-old female university student living in Tarsus, Mersin, a town close to the Mediterranean Sea. Last week, she took a minibus as usual to go from her home to school. But she never came back. Three days later, her dead body was found in an empty field. It was mutilated and burnt.

The brutal killing of 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan has nothing to do with socio-economic conditions or unemployment, unlike the leader of Turkey?s main opposition party has suggested, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said, accusing the opposition of ?politicizing the incident.?

The brutal killing of 20-year-old university student Özgecan Aslan has nothing to do with socio-economic conditions or unemployment, unlike the leader of Turkey?s main opposition party has suggested, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said, accusing the opposition of ?politicizing the incident.?

A number of families of 872 students have decided to leave the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, after the names and personal details of their children were controversially released by a district education office, daily Zaman reported on Jan. 16.

A string of sexual assaults on women during celebrations of Egypt’s presidential inauguration - including a mass attack on a 19-year-old student who was stripped in Cairo’s Tahrir Square - have prompted outrage as a video emerged purportedly showing the teenager, bloodied and naked, surrounded by dozens of men.

Women's Day: End violence against women journalists

BRUSSELS -- IFJ marked International Women's Day by calling on media organizations and public authorities to confront violence against female journalists.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urged them to provided a safe working environment for women in the media.