Metoo Movement

China's #MeToo movement has stumbled in the face of swift internet censors, a patriarchal society and a legal system that places a heavy burden on the claimant.

China's online censors Thursday scrubbed out a tennis star's reported allegations that a powerful politician sexually assaulted her, the first time that the #MeToo movement has reached the highest echelons of the ruling Communist Party.

Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud today praised women lawyers for the role they played during the #MeToo Movement, a global campaign which encouraged survivors about opening up on their experiences of sexual harassment.

A Beijing court late on Tuesday ruled against the plaintiff in a high-profile Chinese sexual harassment case, saying there was insufficient evidence to support her claims, a decision likely to deal a blow to China's #MeToo movement.

Tokyo Paralympics: The campaign launched before Paralympics aims to emulate other human rights movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, and comes with a slick visual identity based around the colour purple.

Milk Tea Alliance now has an emoji on Twitter. The social media giant launched the new emoji for the first anniversary of the global online pro-democracy movement that has united anti-Beijing campaigners in Hong Kong and Taiwan with protesters in Thailand, Myanmar, and beyond.

Journalist Priya Ramani has told a Delhi court hearing a criminal defamation complaint filed by former union minister MJ Akbar against her that there has been "deliberate" and "mischievous" misreading of her article in which she wrote about the alleged sexual harassment incident.

Journalist Priya Ramani today told a Delhi court hearing a criminal defamation complaint filed by former union minister MJ Akbar against her that he did not have a "sterling reputation" as claimed by him.

Journalist Priya Ramani told a Delhi court today that she "pleaded truth" as her defence in a criminal defamation complaint filed against her by former Union minister MJ Akbar.

A day after he was questioned by the Mumbai police in a rape case filed by an actor last month, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap today issued a statement denying any truth in the allegations levelled against him. Mr Kashyap, the statement said,has documentary proof to establish that the complaint against him was an "outright lie" and has soughtsevere actio...

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has been issued a summons by the Mumbai Police to appear in the Versova Police Station on Friday for investigation in a rape case filed last week. The Producer-Director has called the rape allegations "baseless" and issued a statement through his lawyer Priyanka Khimani saying that he intends to take legal action in the mat...

Journalist Priya Ramani told a Delhi court on Monday that she was "targeted selectively" through a criminal defamation complaint by former Union minister MJ Akbar "to halt the avalanche of allegations of sexual misconduct" against him" following the #MeToo movement in 2018.

Roman Polanski was expelled from the Los Angeles-based Academy, which awards the Oscars, in 2018 amid the #MeToo movement

Cuba Gooding Jr's case is one of several high-profile cases to come out of the #MeToo movement

Harvey Weinstein used his final minutes before he was sentenced to portray himself as a martyr in a disjointed rant that led one of his lawyers to try to stop him while an accuser shook her head in disbelief.

China's #MeToo movement has stumbled in the face of swift internet censors, a patriarchal society and a legal system that places a heavy burden on the claimant.

China's online censors Thursday scrubbed out a tennis star's reported allegations that a powerful politician sexually assaulted her, the first time that the #MeToo movement has reached the highest echelons of the ruling Communist Party.

Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud today praised women lawyers for the role they played during the #MeToo Movement, a global campaign which encouraged survivors about opening up on their experiences of sexual harassment.

A Beijing court late on Tuesday ruled against the plaintiff in a high-profile Chinese sexual harassment case, saying there was insufficient evidence to support her claims, a decision likely to deal a blow to China's #MeToo movement.

Tokyo Paralympics: The campaign launched before Paralympics aims to emulate other human rights movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, and comes with a slick visual identity based around the colour purple.

Milk Tea Alliance now has an emoji on Twitter. The social media giant launched the new emoji for the first anniversary of the global online pro-democracy movement that has united anti-Beijing campaigners in Hong Kong and Taiwan with protesters in Thailand, Myanmar, and beyond.

Journalist Priya Ramani has told a Delhi court hearing a criminal defamation complaint filed by former union minister MJ Akbar against her that there has been "deliberate" and "mischievous" misreading of her article in which she wrote about the alleged sexual harassment incident.

Journalist Priya Ramani today told a Delhi court hearing a criminal defamation complaint filed by former union minister MJ Akbar against her that he did not have a "sterling reputation" as claimed by him.

Journalist Priya Ramani told a Delhi court today that she "pleaded truth" as her defence in a criminal defamation complaint filed against her by former Union minister MJ Akbar.

A day after he was questioned by the Mumbai police in a rape case filed by an actor last month, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap today issued a statement denying any truth in the allegations levelled against him. Mr Kashyap, the statement said,has documentary proof to establish that the complaint against him was an "outright lie" and has soughtsevere actio...

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has been issued a summons by the Mumbai Police to appear in the Versova Police Station on Friday for investigation in a rape case filed last week. The Producer-Director has called the rape allegations "baseless" and issued a statement through his lawyer Priyanka Khimani saying that he intends to take legal action in the mat...

Journalist Priya Ramani told a Delhi court on Monday that she was "targeted selectively" through a criminal defamation complaint by former Union minister MJ Akbar "to halt the avalanche of allegations of sexual misconduct" against him" following the #MeToo movement in 2018.

Roman Polanski was expelled from the Los Angeles-based Academy, which awards the Oscars, in 2018 amid the #MeToo movement

Cuba Gooding Jr's case is one of several high-profile cases to come out of the #MeToo movement

Harvey Weinstein used his final minutes before he was sentenced to portray himself as a martyr in a disjointed rant that led one of his lawyers to try to stop him while an accuser shook her head in disbelief.