- A 21-year-old Israeli man will not be charged with raping a 13-year-old girl at a quarantine hotel, in spite of Israel’s statutory rape laws, because prosecutors reduced the charges after being told that the girl said she was 14.
- Feminists in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq are fighting against the practice of burying women murdered for “honor,” often by rejected men, in unmarked graves.
- Female garment workers at the Natchi Apparels factory in India, who make clothes for retail giant H&M, are reporting widespread sexual harassment by supervisors, after the supervisor of 21-year-old Jeyasre Kathiravel was charged with her murder.
- In New Zealand, an amendment to the Harmful Digital Communications Act would make the posting of nonconsensual intimate images a crime, regardless of alleged intent.