Activism
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, Agnes Chow, has been released from prison after serving more than six months for taking part in an unauthorized protest in 2019.
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Sara Rogel, a 28-year-old woman in El Salvador, has been released from prison after she served nearly one third of her 30-year sentence for having what she said was a miscarriage that violated the country’s strict abortion ban.
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The notorious Australian serial con artist Samantha Azzopardi has been sentenced to two years in jail in Melbourne, Australia, for a string of child stealing, obtaining property by deception and theft.
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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to a daughter, her second child with husband Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex.
Women
Women MPs in Tanzania are demanding the parliament apologize to a woman MP, after she was ordered to leave the parliament due to her “tight” trousers.
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Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai has been featured on British Vogue’s July cover, saying “I hope that every girl who sees this cover will know that she can change the world.”
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Meet Jessica Oliveira, a Brazilian para-athlete swimmer, who also known as “Jessyborg, The Robot Girl”.
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World No. 2 tennis champion Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open, a day after she was fined $15,000 by the grand slam for opting to skip the mandatory post-match press conference.
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Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has been fined $15,000 by the French Open after she did not attend a mandatory press conference after her first match on Sunday.
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Prosecutors in Italy have opened a murder investigation into the death of a woman who was thought to have killed herself in 2016 after her leaked sex tape became a meme.
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In Basra, Iraq, 14 women are defying rigid gender norms as they become the first all-women demining team in the city.
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Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Samoa’s first woman prime minister, has been sworn in in a tent outside the parliament after her predecessor locked her out of the building.