- Following a unanimous Senate vote, both chambers of the US Congress have passed a ban on female genital mutilation, and sent it to the president to be signed into law.
- A University of California San Francisco study indicates that roughly seven per cent of women in the United States have attempted an abortion on their own.
- Denmark’s parliament has approved a change to the nation’s rape laws to include sexual intercourse without consent, which would mean prosecutors would no longer have to prove that a perpetrator had used violence or threats in order to secure a conviction.
- The Irish parliament has approved criminal sanctions against online sexual harassment that could include up to 10 years in jail and unlimited fines.
- Former content moderators at PornHub reveal that part of their job was “to find weird excuses not to remove” reported content.