What’s Current: 140,000 revenge porn images of women and girls leaked online

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  • Hundreds of thousands of explicit images of predominately Irish women and girls have been non-consensually leaked via a Discord server where men complied and exchanged nudes. The incident has renewed interest in an online petition to criminalize revenge porn in Ireland.
  • An Ontario man who was found not criminally responsible for sexually assaulting his wife and was discharged will have his name kept off the sex offender registry following a Supreme Court ruling in his favour.
  • Authorities in Poland continue to violently crack down on peaceful feminist protests against a constitutional ruling that bans most abortions, Amnesty International reports.
  • A Tanzanian law that forbids pregnant girls and teenage mothers from attending school is being challenged in Africa’s top court by international women’s charity Equality Now, which says the “discriminatory” rule traps girls in poverty.
Meghan McCarty

Meghan McCarty is an undergraduate student and aspiring journalist living in the United States.