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Eurostat reports that police-recorded sexual violence in the EU rose 79.2% from 2013 to 2023 and that rape offences more than doubled (a 141% increase) in that period; in 2023 the EU recorded 91,370 r...
European rape laws have trended sharply toward , with France most recently adopting a statutory definition that explicitly requires consent to be “free, informed, specific, prior and revocable.” This ...
Several European countries historically let 16‑year‑olds access adult media or set 16 as the minimum age for buying or viewing pornography (examples include Austria, Switzerland and parts of the UK hi...
A review of the provided analyses shows three central, recurring claims: many survivors of sexual violence seek abortion for rape-related pregnancies; a subset of jurisdictions criminalize or sharply ...
Available sources do not provide a simple answer that "young African men" are responsible for a disproportionate share of sexual assaults in Europe; reporting and research emphasize complexity, under‑...
Available reporting in the provided set does not identify any foreign company that has formally signed a lithium exploration or production agreement with Venezuela since 2023; the sources instead docu...
A 2024 academic mapping found 20 European countries had adopted consent-based rape laws as of May 2023, and reporting shows several more states moved in 2024–2025 (notably France, Czechia and Poland) ...
The core factual consensus among historians and major institutions is that , with many authoritative accounts citing a working range of 250,000–500,000 and some lower-bound assessments near 220,000; e...
European laws on child sexual abuse material (CSAM) vary widely, with no single country clearly designated as having the absolute “strictest” regime; instead, . Comparative reviews by INHOPE and the E...
The United States had an estimated in recent tallies, placing it among the largest absolute counts in the world but not offering a straightforward apples‑to‑apples comparison with other developed regi...
A set of recent studies and briefings portray migration as both a growing, measurable global flow—with 39.1 million people moving internationally in 2022—and a major economic engine that produces larg...