What’s Current: UK porn sites to require age checks in planned update to online safety bill

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  • A revived British online safety bill will make pornography sites perform age checks, requiring porn consumers in the U.K. to provide data such as their passport or credit card to prove they’re over 18.
  • Women’s rights activists in Afghanistan temporarily stop protests against the Taliban after two prominent activists are taken into custody by armed gunmen.
  • Top Australian lawmakers issue a formal apology to federal employees for allowing a culture of sexual abuse and bullying to run rampant in the nation’s parliament.
  • Al Jazeera reports women in Eastern Ukraine are enduring the front lines of the Ukraine-Russia conflict alone, with 1.6 million of the 2.9 million people in need of humanitarian assistance being women.
  • Dozens of women protest outside Kuwait’s parliament after a female yoga retreat labelled “indecent and immoral” was banned by the government.
Meghan McCarty

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