- Incarcerated Indigenous women are punished more harshly than other women in Canada’s prisons, accounting for 50 per cent of all solitary confinement placements.
- A woman in Afghanistan was shot and blinded for working as a police officer after her father allegedly reported her to the Taliban.
- Women’s organizations in France predict a second wave of violence against women as the country enters another pandemic lockdown. The number of calls to domestic abuse hotlines during the first lockdown period reached over 40,000.
- The EU has given nearly $5 million to support garment workers in Myanmar, primarily women, who are being forced into the sex industry due to the economic downturn brought on by COVID-19.
- American author Toni Morrison will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, during a ceremony which will be broadcast online.