- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez pledges to criminalize prostitution in Spain, where reports suggest up to 39 per cent of men have paid for sex.
- The extent of influence LGBT charity Stonewall has over U.K. public bodies is revealed in a BBC investigation. Public organizations like the BBC and Ofcom are involved in the lobby group’s diversity schemes, as controversy grows about its influence on public policy.
- A woman was raped on a Philadelphia train while multiple bystanders failed to intervene and allegedly held up their phones to record the assault, authorities say.
- The LA Times reports undercover anti-abortion groups in Mexico are posing as abortion clinics, luring women to their facilities to persuade them not to have an abortion.
- Colombia’s government is responsible for the abduction, torture, and rape of journalist Jineth Bedoya by paramilitary groups in 2000, an international human rights court rules.