- A Mexican woman who was sentenced to 16 years in jail after miscarrying in a department store bathroom has walked free after a court overturned her homicide conviction.
- Despite filing bankruptcy papers, proceedings against Matthew Schwabe, accused of hiding a camera in the women’s washroom at Mattick’s Red Barn Market in Saanich on Vancouver Island, then uploading photos to a Russian “revenge porn” website, will go forward. At least seven young women who were recorded while changing, using the toilet, or “fixing themselves up” in the Red Barn bathroom.
- Feminists at this year’s Women’s Place UK debate called for rational discussion on gender and the law, making clear the importance of sex-specific laws and research, and highlighting dangers posed by reforms.
- Amnesty reports reveal that Saudi women’s rights activists who have been detained are subject to routine sexual assault, electrocution, and flogging, among other torture methods.