- Two Malaysian women were fined and publicly whipped with a rattan cane in the Terengganu sharia high court after being found guilty of the crime of “sexual relations between women.”
- Phillippines President Rodrigo Duterte blames high rates of rape in Davao City on the beauty of local women, rather than on rapists.
- Scottish women’s organizations are concerned that a PR campaign and crowdfunding effort to defend Alex Salmond, a prominent politician, from sexual harassment allegations, may have a chilling effect on future reporting by victims.
- An anti-trafficking advocate in Waterloo says that girls as young as 12 are being recruited and trafficked into prostitution in the region, often by older men posing as boyfriends.
- John Chow, a wealthy brothel owner and property developer, is considering running for mayor of Auckland.