Sexual abuse & harassment

Ireland's scoping inquiry logged 2,395 allegations of historical sexual abuse at 308 schools run by religious orders; the follow-on statutory commission has opened a survey

Idaho lawmakers order independent review of how the state handles sexual-misconduct allegations against women's prison staff

RSF fighters gang-raped women and girls during their siege and takeover of El Fasher, the UN documented, targeting non-Arab communities by ethnicity

UN investigators found reasonable grounds that M23 members committed rape and sexual slavery as war crimes in eastern Congo; the group is not listed as having made commitments to stop

The ICC convicted a Janjaweed commander of Darfur war crimes for the first time, 21 years after the crimes, because Sudan never arrested him.

DOJ's ethics office found Florida federal prosecutors used poor judgment in a 2008 non-prosecution deal with Jeffrey Epstein and did not ensure victims were notified

Michigan State ignored years of sexual-harassment complaints against Larry Nassar and his supervising dean, federal investigators found, and paid a record $4.5 million fine.

The Education Department's civil rights office found USC failed for years to respond to patient complaints of sexual harassment by campus gynecologist George Tyndall.