Women
A man in Japan has been fined 9,000 yen (US$80) for online abuse directed at Hana Kimura, a former cast member of the Netflix reality show “Terrace House” who killed herself last year.
Impact
The Swiss army will start issuing women’s underwear to its women recruits in an effort to increase women recruits.
Activism
Women in Turkey held a mass protest on Saturday Mar. 27 against the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to withdraw the country from an international treaty preventing violence against women.
Women
France’s highest court has ruled a group of firefighters accused of raping a girl from when she was 13 to 15 years old will not be charged with rape but with sexual assault, which carries a lighter sentence than rape.
Impact
New Zealand’s Parliament unanimously approved bereavement leave that will provide couples who have miscarriage or stillbirth three days of paid leave.
Women
Katherine Diaz, a surfer from El Salvador who had been training to compete for the Olympics, was struck and killed by lightning after entering the water to train on Friday Mar. 19.
Activism
Ilmira Bagautdinova, a ballerina from the prestigious Mariinsky Theatre in Russia, danced on the frozen waters of the Gulf of Finland in a graceful protest against the construction of a port.
Activism
Tashnuva Anan Shishir, an activist and actor, has become the first transgender news anchor in Bangladesh after she delivered her first broadcast on a private TV channel on International Women’s Day.
Impact
Tanzania’s vice president Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in as the country’s first woman president following the death of her predecessor, John Magufuli.
Women
Tokyo Olympics’ creative director Hiroshi Sasaki has resigned after saying popular female Japanese comedian and plus-size fashion designer, Naomi Watanabe, could dress up as an “Olympig,” at the opening ceremony.
Women
Thousands of women in Australia took part in the March 4 Justice demonstrations across cities to protest against the mistreatment of women after several rape allegations involving members of the conservative government.
Women
Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old British marketing executive, was walking home to Brixton, South London on Wednesday Mar. 3, when she went missing.