- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will no longer allow family “honour” killings of women to be sentenced more leniently than other murders.
- Rape victims in Victoria, Australia, are demanding that the government change a gag law that would ban victims from naming themselves or telling their own stories.
- A group of Sydney researchers has found that women are being kept out of male-dominated industries in Australia through pervasive sexual harassment.
- The #MeToo movement has come to Denmark, with Danish women like Sofie Linde making it clear their country is no exception when it comes to pervasive sexual harassment in the workplace.
- In the US, an Indiana court has struck down the state’s law against the distribution of nonconsensual sexual recordings of others, claiming that it’s an improper infringement of free speech.