- Three Salvadoran women who were sentenced to 30 years in prison for having abortions are freed from jail following a presidential order.
- Switzerland is set to allow citizens aged 16 and over to legally change their sex through self-identification at a civil registry office, starting in 2022.
- Women in Afghanistan are now banned from traveling distances over 45 miles without a male relative.
- Sarah Weddington, the attorney who won the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade court case that established women’s right to abortion in the U.S., died in her Texas home at 76.
- A home and beauty services provider in India sues its mostly-female employees for protesting against company policy changes, which the workers claim will hurt their earnings.