- Brothel owners organize a rally against a Spanish bill that would penalize pimps, johns, and sex club managers with up to four years in prison.
- Virginia’s high court strikes down a lawsuit filed by the Loudoun County School Board to stop an investigation into claims that a trans-identified male student sexually assaulted girls at multiple schools.
- Johnson & Johnson reaches a $300 million settlement with thousands of Australian women who were implanted with defective pelvic mesh devices created by the manufacturer, causing them to suffer severe medical complications.
- A rape survivor is suing San Francisco after city police used DNA evidence from her sexual assault case to arrest her for an unrelated crime.
- The number of people trapped in modern slavery, including sex trafficking and forced marriage, has skyrocketed to 50 million within the past five years.