Rape
The Week in Detail: Climate concerns, funding foibles
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Jayden Meyer: Why a teen rapist is doing time at home
Four counts of rape, one of sexual violation. How - and why - did the court reach a sentence of nine months' home detention? Audio
Christchurch boys respond to sexual harassment survey
There's a call to better educate young men and boys to quit the cat-calls, locker room talk and the sharing of nude photos and videos. It follows the release last week of a survey of sexual assault… Audio
Christchurch Girls' High School sexual abuse survey 'shocking'
Serious sexual assaults including group rape have been disclosed by students at Christchurch Girls' High School in a whole of school survey conducted last month. 59 percent of survey respondents said… Audio
Sue Kedgley: 50 years at the feminist coalface
Pioneering New Zealand feminist, activist and former Green MP Sue Kedgley first came to public attention in the 1970s as an early, outspoken women's liberationist for femism. Her new book, Fifty Years… Audio
Pressure mounts over Christian Porter rape allegation
Australia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn to look at how Prime Minister Scott Morrison is rejecting calls for an independent inquiry into a historical rape allegation against Christian… Audio
Christina Lamb: bearing witness to war crimes against women
The decorated war correspondent Christina Lamb (Farewell Kabul, I Am Malala) has written a harrowing history of what war does to women. Our Bodies, Their Battlefield is her attempt to tell the true… Audio
Police rape trial: Jury hears closing addresses
The jury in the trial of a police officer accused of raping his colleague has heard closing addresses from both sides in the case.
The man, whose identity remains secret on appeal, is on trial in the… Audio
Sergeant gives evidence in police rape trial
Warning: Report contains information that may be distressing to listeners
The jury in the trial of a police officer accused of raping his colleague has heard three different versions of what happened… Audio
Pop music has as much lyrical aggression as rap
A study from the University of Missouri has shown that bubbly pop music now has just as much lyrical aggression as its rock and hip hop counterparts. Dr Cynthia Frisby joins the show to look at the… Audio
Professor Stephanie Coontz: How to Make Your Marriage Gayer
Professor Stephanie Coontz recently wrote an opinion piece saying "many different-sex couples would have happier and more satisfying marriages if they took a few lessons from their same-sex… Audio
Rape complainants still asked irrelevant questions
New research shows rape complainants are still being asked 'humiliating and irrelevant' questions during the court process. Audio
Could the Weinstein verdict lead to change in NZ
Harvey Weinstein faces up to 25 years in jail after being convicted of sexual assault and rape. It took the jury five days to find him guilty of those crimes but clear him of the most serious count of… Audio
#MeToo Monday looms for Harvey Weinstein
It's been another dramatic week in New York in the trial at the heart of #MeToo. New York Daily News courts reporter Molly Crane-Newman has been covering the case and joins the show with all the… Audio
US correspondent Molly Crane-Newman on the Weinstein trial
Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein faces two counts of predatory sexual assault, two counts of rape and one count of criminal sexual assault in his New York case. New York Daily News journalist Molly… Audio
New sexual violence law hopes to stop re-victimisation
Defence lawyers say a new sexual violence law will mean defendants won't get a fair trial. Why is this change being introduced and what does it hope to achieve? Audio
Calling Home: Pauline Curtis-Smith in the Philippines
Ruel Foundation CEO Pauline Curtis-Smith has established two orphanages and oversees cleft lip/palate operations for some of the Philippines' most needy children. She's Calling Home from Calapan on… Audio
Sex assaults on campus
PhD candidate Kayla Stewart has been looking into sexual assault at tertiary institutions with 2700 responses to a survey at an un-named university. More than a third of respondents - or 36 per cent -… Audio
Netflix's 'The Perfection' reignites classification storm
Another controversial Netflix production with graphic content has sneaked through New Zealand classification, before being changed, as the government considers rule changes. Following viewer concerns… Audio
Blogger who helped discover 'rape culture' in US high school
To this day the American football obsessed town of Steubenville, Ohio occupies an uneasy place in the history of how we understand sexual assault. Video, Audio