sexual violence

BYU students and faculty learned about the political polarization of sexual assault at the first Global Women’s Studies Colloquium of Fall Semester 2024 on Friday, Sept. 13.

A bill that would have required Utah schools to include consent in their public sex education curriculum was defeated this week in Utah's House Education Committee.

Lawmakers are considering different ways to protect domestic abuse victims awaiting trial. (Mallory Jesperson)

BYU conducted a campus climate survey earlier this year regarding incidents of sexual misconduct and campus perceptions of the issue. Forty-three percent of BYU students participated in the survey.

Tim Ballard answers questions from young adults following a forum about pornography and sex trafficking at the World Congress of Families on October 30 at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City. (Abby Hobbs)

A woman hangs a dress among rows of women's clothing hanging, as a part of an art installation called 'Thinking of You' by Kosovo born artist Alketa Xhafa Mripa, in Pristina Stadium, Kosovo, Friday, June 12, 2015. Thousands of dresses and skirts were collected and hung across the field of the Pristina stadium, in a tribute to the estimated 20,000 wartime sexual violence survivors from Kosovo's 1998–1999 war for independence from Serbia. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)