- German lawmakers approve harsher penalties for upskirting, making the act of taking photos or videos of the area under a woman’s skirt or bust line a punishable crime.
- Six former inmates shared accounts of alleged sexual abuse at a New Jersey women’s prison during a public forum about the experiences of women who have faced sexual harassment and misogyny in New Jersey politics.
- Woman in Papua New Guinea took to the streets in mourning clothes to demand an end to domestic violence following the “slow, deliberate, painful” torture and death of a 19-year-old mother of two.
- The Dutch human rights council rules that Eindhoven University’s decision to restrict job vacancies to women in an effort to hire more female academics violates equal treatment laws.
- Human rights lawyers criticize the Home Office for failing to grant asylum to an 11-year-old girl found to be at high risk of female genital mutilation if removed from Britain.