Boys should be told about the heroes and villains in Gisèle Pelicot’s story
Far from drowning in hatred, victimhood and despair, she has retained her faith in humanity and found new love
Gisèle Pelicot
Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman at the centre of mass rape case
People thought I had a stroke or Alzheimer’s, Gisèle Pelicot tells RTÉ’s Prime Time
She says could not recall being raped by dozens of men for years as she had been drugged
Gisèle Pelicot’s powerful memoir A Hymn to Life: ‘Love is not dead. I am not dead’
This is not a book about collapse, nor a story of triumphant overcoming. It is something more complex
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Gisèle Pelicot to attend appeals court as man convicted of raping her contests verdict
Man who was sentenced to nine years for raping Pelicot appeals against conviction
What Kim Kardashian and Gerard Depardieu tell us about France’s attitude to gender-based violence
The evidence suggests France still has a way to go. Seven in 10 women say they have experienced sexism in the workplace, according to a survey
Dominique Pelicot’s daughter presses charges accusing him of sexual abuse
Caroline Darian (46) believes she was sedated and sexually assaulted or raped by her father
‘I have done hideous things’: the French surgeon who kept diaries detailing his alleged sexual crimes
Joël Le Scouarnec is accused of the rape and sexual assault of 299 patients. Coming in the wake of the Pelicot trial, the case is another sign of France’s slow-changing attitudes to sexual crimes
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Blistering punk-pop duo Lambrini Girls recorded debut album last year, when the world seemed to be at peak insanity. But the spiral continues, they say
Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot: ‘It’s difficult to be the daughter of a sexual criminal and the daughter of an icon like my mum’
Darian’s father, Dominique Pelicot, was sentenced to 20 years for drugging his wife and filming her being raped by him and dozens of strangers. Darian describes the ‘mental torture’ of not knowing what he did to her
Dominique Pelicot will not appeal guilty verdict in mass rape trial, lawyer says
A new trial is to take place, as 17 co-defendants have appealed
Dominique Pelicot and his co-defendants are not monsters, but something more frightening
Gisele Pelicot did not put herself through a ritual public skinning because she wanted to be some kind of icon. She did it to start a conversation
Gisèle Pelicot ‘ready to face another trial if needed’
Two defendants lodge appeals and ex-husband considers appealing his 20-year sentence
Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men?
French rape trial shows that until men engage earnestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that normalise it, not enough will change
‘Shame has changed sides’: Supporters thank Gisèle Pelicot for her bravery as mass rape trial ends
Dominique Pelicot weeps after being given maximum sentence of 20 years
Gisèle Pelicot ‘led this fight’ for her grandchildren, as ex-husband sentenced to 20 years in mass rape trial
French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty of repeatedly drugging ex-wife with 50 co-defendants guilty of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault
I wrote a letter to Madame Pelicot as one woman to another in solidarity and support
I wrote in admiration and acknowledgement of her bravery, and in sympathy and empathy for what she had endured for years
Gisèle Pelicot lambasts cowardice of men accused of her mass rape
Dominique Pelicot drugged wife (71) and invited strangers to rape her while she was unconscious
‘We imagined it could happen elsewhere, but not here’: Rape trial revelations shake a French town
Mazan is now infamous as infamous as the place where Gisèle Pelicot was regularly drugged by her husband of 50 years and offered up to strange men for sex
Hazel Behan and Gisèle Pelicot are not victims, but survivors setting the world on fire with their truth
Heroic women have begun pushing back, refusing to carry a shame that was never theirs
Gisèle Pelicot’s horrifying experience is familiar to some women in Ireland
Girls are told the world is not safe and advised to impose controls on their behaviours. None of these precautions would have protected Gisèle Pelicot
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