A sex attacker got more than he bargained for when he preyed on a kickboxer who throttled him with her legs until he passed out.

A woman was sexually violated in a North Shore reserve overnight.

A mayor in Australia has sparked outrage after saying women who walk alone at night are "inviting people to take advantage of them".

A disgraced bombardier who was jailed and dismissed from the armed forces for offences including indecent assault had his sentence reduced on appeal today.

The New Zealand hero of Gallipoli James Waddell stood less than 5ft 3 but heroes don’t come much bigger.

One of the victims of a "night-stalker" rapist waived her right to anonymity to confront her attacker and accuse him of making her body feel worthless.

Police are investigating the sexual assault of a woman near the Maitai River in Nelson overnight.

Now the Everyday Sexism Project has reached 100,000 posts, here's what Laura Bates wants to happen next.

Yazidi women released by Isis this week have given distressing accounts of their ordeals.

Rolling Stone magazine this week retracted a story of alleged university gang rape after an investigation found it was a “journalistic failure”. Andrew Laxon examines the fallout.

A woman was sexually assaulted before having her bag stolen as she was walking along a Christchurch street early on Easter Sunday.

The Southern district is safe despite a 44 per cent increase in sexual assaults last year, police say.

When a sports star is accused of sexual assault, the public's first concern is what it means for the individual's career, writes Dana Johannsen.

A male nurse has admitted filming himself raping two unconscious women in A&E while patients lay just feet away.

A 72-year-old Palmerston man has avoided trial on 95 charges of indecent assaults on boys after a High Court judge found he has dementia.

A woman has been sexually assaulted in a Wellington suburb last night.

There are many contenders for the title of most damning and depressing finding in the report by the IPCA into the Roast Busters investigations, writes Toby Manhire.

Police have publicly apologised to the young women at the centre of the investigation into the Roast Busters scandal, after a report slammed their handling of the case.

Police Commissioner Mike Bush has apologised 'unreservedly' following an IPCA report which found Roast Buster victims were "let down" by police.

"Should you take them back to yours? Or go to theirs?" Verity Johnson's answer sent her book club into an uproar.

Tauranga police are seeking help from members of the public to identify a group of men involved in an alleged sexual assault of a teenager.

A private music tutor has denied accusations that he sexually abused pupils.

Older women are far more blase about groping than us young 'uns. Yeah, they say, it happened all the time, you just dealt with it. You had strategies. Tactics, writes Verity Johnson.

Police believe they have caught the man responsible for a slew of sex attacks in a South Auckland park.

The sex abuse investigation into Sir Cliff Richard has "increased significantly since its inception" and involves more than one allegation, say South Yorkshire Police.

A Christchurch man has been arrested as part of a police investigation into the alleged rape, and blackmail of a victim using a video recording.

A British man who tried to have sex with a postbox has been found dead weeks after signing the sex offenders register.

Bikram Choudhury, the creator of the popular hot yoga regime, is facing more accusations of sexual assaults against trainees.