Lawyers for women who claim they’ve been sexually harassed while working for global mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto say they’ve been inundated with emails since filing two class action cases in an Australian court.

The head of global mining group Rio Tinto pledged to act if wrongdoing was discovered following the filing of sexual harassment lawsuits against the company. Brisbane-based law firm JGA Saddler this week filed a class action against Rio and BHP Group,

Rio Tinto and BHP are confronting class action lawsuits alleging that they created environments where female staff suffered systemic sexual harassment and gender discrimination at their Australian mining sites.

New Pentagon data shows that reported sexual assaults at the U.S. military academies dropped in 2024 for the second year in a row

The rate of sexual assaults in US military academies “significantly decreased” in 2024, a new Pentagon report released on Thursday said, down from the highest rate ever recorded in 2022. But officials warned that more work was still needed,

There was a “significant” drop in reported sexual harassment and assaults at the U.S. military service academies over the past two years after a spike in 2022, but rates remain high, according to new Pentagon data released Thursday.