Mariska Hargitay ‘s Joyful Heart Foundation has achieved a milestone more than a decade in the making.

Mariska Hargitay and the Joyful Heart Foundation are celebrating a major achievement. After 16 years, the organization's End the Backlog initiative — which was created to eliminate the backlog of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When writer, director, producer, model, actress, and philanthropist Sabrina Lassegue was 15 years old, she was sexually assaulted ...

DENVER — A Colorado sex assault survivor who spoke out earlier this year about the state’s rape kit backlog is now the namesake of a new law aimed at reforming how sexual assault cases are handled.

In 2024, Maine’s legislature passed a bill requiring the state to inventory untested rape kits and establish a rape kit tracking system. Gov. Janet Mills did not sign that or 34 other late-arriving ...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) — Over the last month, in honor of the 25th recognized National Sexual Assault Awareness Month Campaign as established by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, Eyewitness ...

In the 1970s, the rape kit began as a simple box with some envelopes, a comb, nail clippers, and a few other basic tools. The contents of the kit have evolved somewhat since then, but the technology ...