Climate
Nepal is preparing to Mount Everest’s base camp as the glacier it is currently located on is rapidly melting due to climate change, making it no longer safe.
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The world governing body for swimming has banned transgender women who have experienced any part of male puberty from competing in elite women’s competitions, effectively banning most trans women from top swimming events.
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Saudi officials are seizing rainbow-colored toys and articles of clothing from shops in the capital, Riyadh, as part of a crackdown on LGBT rights.
Activism
Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American lawyer, has been sentenced to six years in prison for conspiring against the government.
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An Australian man has succeeded in using a forklift to prevent a thief from stealing his car in Queensland, Australia.
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On Wednesday June 15, Thailand took a step toward marriage equality as lawmakers passed a first reading of four different bills on same-sex unions, including two bills that would allow same-sex marriages and two others that would permit civil partnerships.
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After nine years together, the K-pop group and global phenomenon BTS has announced they will go on a break to work on solo projects.
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Four women were slapped, attacked and pushed to the ground after one of them resisted sexual harassment from a man in a barbecue restaurant in Tangshan, China.
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Japan has approved a new cyberbullying law that will make “online insults” punishable by up to a year in prison on Monday June 15.
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Australia has appointed an Indigenous Warramunga man as its first Aboriginal supreme court justice for the first time in the country’s history.
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The Myanmar military has been setting fire to hundreds villages in the north of the country to crush the resistance, according to local reports.
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A tribe in Niger holds an annual beauty pageant that tears down conventionally women-centered ceremonies and instead puts men in the spotlight.