- A sex doll brothel was scheduled to open in Toronto next week, but the lease on the location has been revoked.
- Lisa Marie Velasquez, whose mother was murdered by an abusive male partner when she was 12-years-old, was murdered when responding to a call for help from a friend being battered by her boyfriend. The boyfriend beat Velasquez to death, and threatened to kill his partner and their child if she did not help him hide Vasquez’ body.
- Rotherham councillor, Amy Brookes, has put forward a motion through the UK Labour women’s conference, asking that the party’s redefinition of the term “woman” be debated in the general conference.
- A new study, reported in the Harvard Business Review, examines women’s reasons for adopting strategies of “intentional invisibility” in the workplace.
- EuroNews interviews Masih Alinejad, founder of My Stealthy Freedom, about her campaign against Iran’s compulsory hijab laws: “Today, it is only the use of brute force that is keeping compulsory hijab in place.”