- The Punjab province of Pakistan outlawed “virginity tests” which were routinely conducted on rape victims when filing a report with authorities. The invasive exams remain legal in many other parts of the nation.
- A Chilean court dismissed a case brought against four women by the military police over a performance of the feminist anthem, “A Rapist in Your Path.” Police had accused the women of “inciting violence.”
- Concerns have been raised that women detained in the Turkish capital of Ankara for protesting government inaction over the disappearance of a young woman are being tortured by the police.
- Police in the Philippines are investigating the death of a young flight attendant believed to have been raped by 11 men prior to her murder.
- The High Court of Bombay ruled that a man running for local office, who identifies as a woman, should be permitted to list their sex as female on a local nomination form.