- Pending Royal Assent, “upskirting” will be a sexual offence in the UK. Men found guilty of taking and sharing photographs up women’s skirts in public places will face a potential penalty of two years jail time.
- K Dhanya Sanal, 38, has made history as the first Indian woman to climb to the top of the second highest mountain in Kerala, after a court order overturned a ban on women between 10 and 50 years of age climbing to visit the Hindu pilgrimage site.
- Beatrix Campbell covers the UK Green Party’s inquiry into the Challenor sex crime scandal, concluding that its main achievement seems to have been to “let the leadership off the hook.”
- Police have arrested 55 men in West Yorkshire over allegations relating to the sexual abuse and exploitation of children between 2002 and 2009.
- Experts on human trafficking say that President Trump’s descriptions of alleged abduction scenarios — aimed at supporting his efforts to build a border wall — are highly misleading, and that victims of sex trafficking typically arrive at legal points of entry on visas.