- Actress Evan Rachel Wood has accused the singer, Brian Warner, also known as Marilyn Manson, of years of intimate partner abuse against her.
- A military coup in Myanmar, just before the newly elected parliament was to begin their first session, has seen the country’s elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, once again placed under house arrest.
- Anti-trafficking advocates around the world warn of increased trafficking in babies, in countries like Uzbekistan and Ghana, and of babies being stranded in Thailand due to the pandemic through illegal surrogacy schemes.
- An Indian high court judge has overturned a judgement against a man convicted of child sexual assault in a lower court, saying that it didn’t count as sexual assault because it was through clothing, and there was no skin contact.