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Rape culture
Rape culture, a feminist concept from 1970s America (New York Radical Feminists, Susan Brownmiller), describes societies normalizing sexual violence; covers rape myths, cross-cultural evidence, prevalence data, prevention programs, and criticism.
Rape during the Armenian genocide
Sexual violence against Armenian women and girls during the 1915–16 Armenian genocide: rape, abduction, sexual slavery, and forced marriage during deportations, with roughly 50,000 captives in 1919.
Rape during the Bangladesh Liberation War
Mass sexual violence against Bengali women and girls by Pakistani forces and collaborators during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War; survivors honored as Birangona; commonly cited figures around 200,000 rapes, with contested estimates and legal aftermath.
Rape during the Bosnian War
Rape during the Bosnian War (1992–1995): mass wartime sexual violence, chiefly against Bosniak women, in detention and rape camps; 14,000–50,000 estimated victims; landmark ICTY Foča convictions defined rape as torture and crime against humanity.
Rape during the occupation of Germany
Rape during the occupation of Germany: mass sexual violence by Soviet forces in 1945, with estimates up to 2 million victims, plus documented assaults by American, French, and British troops, courts-martial, and postwar silence.
Rape during the occupation of Japan
Rape during the occupation of Japan (1945–1952): sexual violence by Allied servicemen, beginning in Yokosuka on 30 August 1945, with documented Okinawan cases, censorship-obscured records, the RAA "female floodwall," and disputed claims of mass rape.
Rape fantasy
Rape fantasy: a sexual fantasy of forced sex. 31–57% of women report such fantasies, 9–17% frequently; also discussed in feminist sex wars, pornography research, and ethics of fictional depiction.
Rape in India
Rape in India is a criminal offense defined in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, formerly IPC Section 375; police recorded 31,516 cases in 2022, with a 27.4% conviction rate.
Rape in Islamic law
Rape in Islamic law (ikrah ala al-zina) is coercive intercourse treated under zina doctrine. Key facts: hadd punishments, four-witness rule, Pakistan's 1979 Hudood Ordinance, 2006 Protection of Women Act, 2021 reforms.
Rape in Japan
Rape in Japan, now non-consensual sexual intercourse (不同意性交等), is a Penal Code offense redefined by 2017 and 2023 reforms; recognized cases rose from 1,655 in 2022 to 3,936 in 2024.
Rape in Pakistan
Rape in Pakistan is criminalized under Pakistan Penal Code Sections 375 and 376, reshaped by the 1979 Zina Ordinance, the 2006 Protection of Women Act, and 2016 and 2021 amendments, with special courts and a sex offenders register but under 3 percent conviction.
Rape in Sweden
Rape in Sweden (våldtäkt) is a sexual offence under Brottsbalken Chapter 6, defined since 1 July 2018 by lack of consent, with negligent rape added; Sweden's high reported rape statistics reflect broad legal definitions and recording practices.
Rape in the Hebrew Bible
Rape in the Hebrew Bible is the scholarly study of biblical narratives and laws on sexual coercion, centered on Genesis 34, Judges 19, and Deuteronomy 22.
Rape in the United States
Rape in the United States: state-defined criminal offense with no single national definition. Measured by NCVS, NISVS, YRBSS, and FBI UCR; 135,755 rapes reported in 2017; marital rape exemption fully abolished by 2005.
Rape kit
Rape kit (sexual assault kit): standardized evidence collection package used in medical forensic exams of sexual assault survivors; DNA testing identifies offenders and serial rapists; origins in 1970s Chicago Vitullo kit; large US testing backlog.
Rape of Belgium
The Rape of Belgium: German army atrocities against Belgian civilians in the 1914 invasion and occupation of Belgium in World War I, including Louvain's burning, the Bryce Report, forced-labor deportations, and later denial and historiography.
Rape of males
Rape of males: non-consensual penetration of men and boys, including being made to penetrate. Covers prevalence (CDC: 1 in 31 men), male rape myths, disclosure barriers, psychological impact, and gender-specific rape laws.
Rape of Persephone
Rape of Persephone (Abduction of Persephone): Greek myth of Hades seizing Persephone with Zeus's consent, told in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter; pomegranate seed binds her a third of each year; read as marriage allegory and women's initiation.
Rape of Queena Vuong
Queena Vuong (Queena Phu), 18, was raped and beaten April 24, 2008 outside the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library, Valrico, Florida, by Kendrick Morris, 16, leaving her blind and paralyzed; Morris was resentenced to life in prison in 2017.
Rape pornography
Rape pornography depicts rape or non-consensual sexual activity, usually simulated. Covered by UK extreme pornography law (possession offence extended 2015; CPS 2019 guideline excluded consenting-adult material); effects research shows weak, contested associations.
Raphael (רְפָאֵל) (archangel)
Raphael (Hebrew: רְפָאֵל) is an archangel of Judaism and Christianity, known from the Book of Tobit as a healer and one of the seven angels before God.
Raphael David Saban
Raphael David Saban (רפאל דוד סבאן) was an Istanbul rabbi who became the first Chief Rabbi of the Republic of Turkey, serving from 1953 to 1960.
Raphaël Glucksmann
Raphaël Glucksmann (born 1979) is a French politician who co-presides the Place publique party and has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Raphaël Hopfner
Raphaël Hopfner is a French molecular biologist who co-founded ProteoGenix in 2003, an antibody-development company in Schiltigheim near Strasbourg, where he serves as Scientific Director.
Raphael I
Raphael I was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1475 to 1476. A Serbian who spoke no Greek, he was deposed for unpaid debts and died in prison.
Raphael II
Raphael II (Ραφαήλ) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1603 to 1607, between the two terms of Neophytus II, and was deposed in October 1607.
Raphael Kofi Afaedor
Raphael Kofi Afaedor is a Ghanaian-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded the online retailer Jumia in Lagos in 2012, serving as its chief executive until January 2014.
Raphael Lemkin
Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), Polish-Jewish lawyer, coined the word 'genocide' in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe and drove adoption of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.
Raphaël Lescanne
Raphaël Lescanne is a French entrepreneur and quantum physicist who co-founded Alice & Bob in Paris in 2020, serving as chief technology officer of the cat-qubit company.
Raphael of Brooklyn (رافائيل هواويني)
Raphael of Brooklyn, born Raphael Hawaweeny (1860–1915), was a Syrian-born Russian Orthodox bishop, the first Orthodox bishop consecrated in North America, who led Arabic-speaking Orthodoxy and was canonized in 2000.