- Five Ontario women have been murdered by current or former male partners this January. Their names were Holly Hamilton, Elaine Bellevue, Baljit Thandi, Avtar Kaur, and Jan Singh.
- Based on official crowd estimates, at least a million women marched in the United States and around the world on the first anniversary of the Women’s Marches protesting Donald Trump’s inauguration.
- Female staff at the United Nations report that sexual harassment is rampant, and they face significant reprisals for speaking out.
- Lidia Thorpe, the first female Aboriginal MP from Victoria, Australia, has received rape and death threats after saying that the state should fly flags at half-mast on Australia Day to recognize crimes against Aboriginal people.
- A UK woman who feared men was put in a room with a trans-identified male patient during a bipolar episode, and was accused of transphobia when she objected.