- Federal prosecutors charge R. Kelly’s former manager Donnell Russell with calling in a shooting threat to a Manhattan screening of Surviving R. Kelly in 2018. The charges follow accusations that Russell and two others used arson and bribery to silence a woman who publicly accused the singer of sexual abuse.
- Afghanistan’s government announces a new council to safeguard women’s rights amid fears that historic peace talks with the Taliban could undermine the gains of Afghan women.
- The International Rescue Agency reports over 150,000 women and girls have been displaced following the August 4 explosion that devastated Beirut.
- South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in pledges to highlight the plight of the country’s last surviving “comfort women” who were forced to work in Japanese brothels in World War II.